Does life begin at 40?
Today I turn 41. I have waved goodbye to being 40 and am now properly ‘in my 40s’. I loved being 40, I felt it was kind of a cool age. It is always said that life begins at 40. So did mine? In a word, yes. There have been some big changes over the last year – one which I expected and others which I didn’t, but they’ve all been good. When I turned 40, we’d found a house we wanted to buy. We’d...
Ridiculously healthy
I’ve always suspected as a slim, teetotal, vegetarian, non-smoking runner I was pretty fit and healthy. But now it’s official. I am Ridiculously Healthy.If you’re not really old like what I am, you might not know that you get a free NHS health check when you turn 40 (and every five years after that until your mid-70s) – just to check your risk of developing nasty stuff like diabetes and heart disease. Because,...
Body is a temple
My body is a temple. I’m very careful about what I put into it – partly because I don’t like certain things, but mainly because my life is ruled by IBS. There’s not a day in my life when I don’t suffer with IBS, I just aim to minimise my suffering through what I eat. I don’t drink alcohol and I drink lots of water. I’m always hearing ‘Oh, you’re so GOOD!’ but these decisions...
Never ending birthday
We love birthdays in our family and always take them pretty seriously. Everyone looks forward to each other’s big day and there’s always a birthday banner, some balloons and Pumba with birthday cards in his mouth (this is a tradition stretching back to living in a studio flat in Nottingham in my early 20s). My family will come round for birthday tea and the kids will get a party of one form or another thrown in there too....
