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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
Posts: 3,086
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
Posts: 3,086
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to ron hutton
What is wrong with you?
That answer was very much a kick in the pants -can you answer it
any more arrogantly?
sincerely,
tena
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Originally Posted by Ronhutton
Retired??, don't make me laugh, I am so occupied I can never understand how I found time to work!! I have a half acre garden to maintain. I keep it going with no outside help. Then I have a Labrador, young and frisky which needs a walk in the orchards every day. Then there is PD, my life revolves around it, I spend hours researching on the net, I am a Committee Member of the local branch of the Parkinson's Soc. and have to go out collecting for funds, attending meetings, etc. Today I go to their Yoga Class. The UK PD Society invited me to give a presentation recently, after asking me to write an article for their magazine. Now I am travelling to London regularly to their meetings, and I also go to London to visit a research group in King's College University. I do all their literature searches for them, and raise funds for them in my "spare time". I organised an auction last Nov. which raised $35,000. When I "retired" 10 years ago, the employees asked me to be Chairman of the Social CLub, "in my spare time". I have to chair the monthly meetings, attend all the functions, send out agendas, etc. I am a silversmith, registered with the London Assay Office, and make silverware, (when I have time). I have 3 married children and 5 grandchildren, and we are a close group, they all visit regularly, and we often have the grandchildren staying overnight, while the "children" go out and enjoy themselves. We travel a lot, holidays in Tahiti (total of 40 hours flying time) and Crete this year, and we go to France next week. This is to visit a French group of Parkies in Reims. I laid 80 heavy concrete paving stones a month or so ago. Yesterday I saw a specialist about my hernia!!! I am 70 years old now, and have had PD for 16 years, maybe that was a bit foolhardy...
Guess what I did last weekend, went out and bought a state of the art metal detector as a "spare time" hobby. First find in my garden was an old metal button, with the inscription, "Ne Plus Ultra". Apparently an old military button. There are many finds of Roman gold and silver coins up to 2,000 years old in the area, I will let you know if I find one!!!
Ron
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with much love,
lou_lou
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pd documentary - part 2 and 3
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
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