I have has Covid-brain all summer to add to my advancing age. I would tell you all the funny anecdotes but I have forgotten them.

Came home from holiday a few years ago and one of the first jobs is usually fire up the boiler for some hot water – it didn't work

Boilers in the loft so up I go possibly thinking it needs resetting, it didn't. Scratching my head I now start dismantling it to find out why it won't light and while I'm inside thought I'd give the heat exchanger a brush and hoover up. Checked the ignition unit etc.

Then I had a memory cell spring to life – I'd turned the gas supply off!

Worked a treat after that.

Alan

Oh Don't! I'm forever walking off to fetch something, getting there and then thinking what did I come for and having to walk back again to try and remember.

And the "I'll look that up on the computer later" trick, and then getting to the computer and forgetting what I was supposed to be looking up – I can string that one out for days and days and still not look it up. Whatever it was. I forget.

Not to mention using a tool and then putting it down and 30 seconds later thinking where did I put that and being completely unable to find the tool anywhere, and I haven't even moved out the shed. Mind you, I put that down to the little people in my shed borrowing things……………… they usually leave what they have borrowed in the exact spot where I left it a couple of days later……….

Isn't this old age great….

Chris

We have a system where if we're just about to fall asleep at night, one of us will say, "Oh, yes, remind me to mow the kittens in the morning" or whatever, and one of us will reach out and chuck a coaster from the bedside cabinet on to the floor.

Then in the morning, we can both spend a happy hour or two wondering what the blazes it was that the coaster was supposed to remind us to do…

It's not only down to age. Now I know some might disagree with what I'm about to say, and will use phrases like "so what's different", but a few weeks ago one of the oncologists decided I was aneamic. This was duly reported to my GP who put me on ferrous fumarate, initially 3 x 210mg per day. It eventually became apparent that I was unable to tolerate that dosage, and eventually came off it completely, but one thing that did develop was what I called "brain fog", ie memory & mental failure. I have, this am just come back from seeing the podiatrist and I have absolutely no memory of being there 8 weeks ago, indeed I suggested that it might have been last year, but my diary doesn't lie. Fortunately, memory and the other mental functions have recovered, but it's frightening to see what can happen.

Peter G. Shaw

Ah! Many of us are reaching the age where we think about the hereafter.

i.e. What am I here after?

Howard

Howard. There is always the teenage version : if we can remember !

"If you're not here after what I am here after then you'll be here after I've gone !"

But what on earth was it that I was after ?

Chris.

The quote at the top of the December page of my calender (on which In write all my hospital appointments) reads-"No man is ever old enough to Know Better"

I have a small hardback notebook in which is placed all manner of info, some of which was hard to acquire, and may be difficult to do so again. Eg, vee belt sizes, bearing part numbers; taps and dies in my posession and wanted; critical dimensions of lathe and mill (in case I see a bargain, but not sure if it will fit); brief instructions for numerous tasks such as converting a car from pos to neg earth, or identifying whether a 12v coil is for a ballasted system or not; dimensions of my workshop and garage; etc. I use it, and add to it, almost every week.

It fits in madam's handbag, so will usually be available if I don't remember it myself. I also no longer move workshop things to a new storage location – having several times looked in the old place, and not remembered the new.

Retitle the thread 'Uncertain Age'?

Larry,

In my case, it was my last birthday, when I reached 77!

Incidently, I've also had the "We are supposed to check on people like you to see if your mind is OK. I can tell you're OK." That was about 5 years ago.

Peter G. Shaw