Health

At my age, and discounting mobility, I have say I’m blessed with extremely  good health.

Please note the qualifier ‘at my age’. 

I have a karate friend in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Eiko Hanshi Renzie Hanham. with whom I went to school. We shared a number of courses over the years and sat next to each other in Mr Mouat’s bookkeeping classes. I liked Hanshi Renzie a lot and respected the fact that he was a magnificent artist and a brilliant judoka. Apparently, he thought I was really cool – I wasn’t – but I had no idea of this at the time. The point of this is, we met up again when in our late 60s and had some nice chats. We agreed that we were lucky we still had good health apart from, as he said, ‘the bits that don’t work anymore.’

I can confirm that now, over a decade later, that list of bits that don’t work is ever growing.

Still happy and well but moving much more slowly.