The middle aged thread

Thanks all for dissipating concerns about my sense of reality; also the opposite of thanks for confirming the incident was real.

Cannot wait until next year and my shingles vax.

Cannot wait until next year and my shingles vax.

Not sure where you tongue is with this, but i've missed this, 65 at the wrong time. Shingrix is 97% effective so think i'm going to invest privately for it.

I think it's slightly in my cheek. As a person with a wonky immune system because of long term meds, I should be eligible next year.

Ok suddenly stuff is breaking.
Tendons everywhere hurting if I do exercise (sorry tendons I’m doing stuff), think I’ve done a little wrist fracture again (sorry bones I’m doing stuff).
This is age stuff innit?

Sadly yes.
My GP had ‘the talk’ with me last week about how I am getting older and need to understand my body is not reacting the same way as it did when I was younger.

I listened. I took it on board. He can FRO.

What are the recommended, sanctioned approved activities for a middle aged person?

Superdry? Oasis tickets? Binge drinking? Aggressively coaching your son’s football team? Tacit support of EDL? Being one of those Rugby blokes? Pickle ball (actually that would fuck me up) ?

Most middle aged blokes I know just drink to much, go to expensive far flung cities and talk about supermarkets. That doesn’t really appeal

Cycling unfortunately

Demolishing walls and tearing up floors mostly right now

But my knees

knee pain thread

Cycling unfortunately

Yeah I do enjoy that a lot. But mostly alone or with one or two others.

I don’t want to hang out with a bunch of other blokes like me

Finding my vision is now happy with things far away or things near by, but not both.

Swimming

Yeah my vision has gone to utter shit in the last couple years. Expensive varifocals help a bit but it's not just straightforward focus, if I'm tired or it's a bit dark I just can't see very well. It's a bit dispiriting really, I like seeing things.

Some of my friends do walking football. No, no idea either.

if I'm tired or it's a bit dark I just can't see very well

My headtorch gets more use in the house / garden than on the adventures it was intended for due to this.

It has some advantages in that you can't see the monster rogue hairs in your eyebrows or sprouting from the tops of your ears.

Yes, sorry, I was poking fun at bunches of middle age men on bikes!
Even though individually that's exact description of me.

Backpacking - hiking - rambling - walking are popular activities that allow for small spaces of social activity and long periods of regretting your life choices.

“Moaning” seems to be the universal activity of most of the blokes I know.

Multifocal contact lenses are my current experiment

Three pairs of glasses, because I won't get varifocals, that's admitting defeat.

Yeah I've used them. Still end up using fucking readers with them 😔

Ah

My usual solution to not being able to read whatever it is, is to take my glasses off/ peer over the top of them. Contacts would make this tricky.

I’m constantly reaching to switch on the headtorch that lives on my hard hat at work - even when I’m at home, and not wearing my hard hat.