Another week has flown by!

A friend showed me her daughter's blog and she made it so interesting - mine seems so boring - I must think of something to liven it up.

I have been feeling quite optimistic lately and I think it is because the weather is improving slightly and also that I am exercising regularly. When one gets older you find that if you don't keep active you will seize up and lose the ability to move or think - so I make the effort to keep going. Sometimes it is quite hard to motivate myself. For instance one of my exercise classes is in Covent Garden Gym and to get there it takes about 45 minutes on the underground. When the weather is bad I just don't want to go - but I usually make myself.

One of the things that worries me about ageing is memory. I forget words and they don't come back to me for some time - so when I am speaking to someone I have to use other ways of expressing myself which makes me sound hesitant and I realise the other person is trying to help me out by putting in words. My only consolation is that the lost words do come back to me later, I always think that if they don't come back then I am starting to have demensia.

Physically I am quite well - but my joints are beginning to ache. My knees hurt when I go up and down the stairs. I have various arthritic pains. And I get tired easily. I used to be able to do so much more.

My week has been quite pleasant. Two exercise classes. Lunch with two friends on different days. a committee meeting and a lecture at the History Society.

Nice thoughts to finish of my blog - Thinking of summer holidays - ideas for Canada and California (one trip) Prague, Budapest, Poland another trip. And maybe Paris for a few days! It all sounds wonderful. I hope I manage to do some of them.

Next week a friend is coming to stay and that will be very pleasant.

This week end a Saturday morning walk and meeting up with family to go to the theatre in the afternoon, then on Sunday a walk with another group (probably about 4 miles). I hope the weather stays fine. The weather has really improved and some of my spring bulbs are beginning to show. First the snow drops and now the crocuses and then one beautiful dwarf Iris. It is so pretty!