I think of escalators as stairs because I usually walk up them but, as you’ve probably guessed, I’m a bit obsessed about walking up stairs as a means to staying fit into old age. It works, as a health assessment found I have very strong hamstrings. I’m shutting up about this now! 😊
Yes, consider moving somewhere without stairs when your mobility is decreasing but 70 for most people is too young.
As someone who has reached pension age and has lots of older friends, these issues about moving about (ie. not sitting too much) and climbing stairs are not infrequent conversations. It’s great that people are living longer but that’s not so great if it’s in poor health.
My point is that if you live in a bungalow unless you get the bus and go upstairs you can go weeks without going near stairs. Once retired you don’t often go into high rise buildings (and we don’t have many). As the article I’ve posted suggests you need to be aware of the impact of a lack of stairs.
Sure, but the lady in the article is 70. If she stops climbing stairs regularly now it will impact her health.
The challenge of older age is staying healthy. Something you do regularly, because you have to, has an impact. www.pilgrimsfriend.org.uk/news-views/b...
Tube stations in London have lots of stairs.
Here’s one article about the difference regular stair climbing makes: www.pilgrimsfriend.org.uk/news-views/b...
Not magical at all! 😊
Look up “bungalow legs” - lots of evidence of benefits of regular stair climbing, which will keep her fit into old age!
Nothing beats going up and down your own stairs. Flats might have stairs outside but bungalows don’t and for those of us outside of London we don’t have lots of stairs anywhere else.
Except Louise Haigh was a parliamentary candidate when she was convicted. Had she told the Labour Party then she would not have been allowed to stand.
Disagree about bungalows and flats. Walking up and downstairs is good for you. If you can climb stairs keep doing it as long as possible.
No - just not tight ones
What’s not to love? Not very British though, certainly not what we expect of husbands in Yorkshire.
When I was a councillor in the 1980s one of my colleague’s first name was Brent. Someone posted a cutting from a newspaper in the Labour Group room “Brent in chaos” (it’s what we did before Twitter) which referred to the borough council in London. It was true, he was a rather chaotic councillor.
Love Glencore - I’ll never be able to say it without smiling - not that I ever say it.
On this Women’s International day, just wanted to remind you about King Tamar of Georgia (not queen) back from 12th century. According to sources she was titled as “King of Kings”.
Tamar’s reign was one of the prosperous eras for Georgia.
Absolutely not what you are looking for but can’t resist posting Gloria Gonk knitted by my mum in the mid 1960s from a pattern in a magazine. (The repairs are because the moths got to her.)
It’s evident a lot of people watch them! Mystifies me - not a fan of doing diy myself, can’t imagine why I’d want to watch someone else 😊
And loads of people building or renovating properties, living off grid etc Not my cup of tea but someone in our house watches them.
PDIOS party #Gambia
Except it’s the Equality Act not Equalities Act and from what he’s saying he is referring to a number of acts rather than just the most recent one in 2010.
Staff moving a whale skeleton.
Staff moving a whale skeleton.
Staff moving a whale skeleton.
Staff moving a whale skeleton.
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possibly, but it doesn’t make sense to over control backbenchers. They can and should contribute to improving legislation. It’s frustrating for MPs to not be able to put forward ideas to then see the same issues accepted in the House of Lords as gvt doesn’t have a majority.
I really liked A View from the Bridge and All my sons. I think I must have had great teachers because I also got on well with Othello (helped by having seen Timothy West play Iago) and Waiting for Godot.
Or that while PM is not doing well, it’s not clear that anyone else would do better.
Good to see an article on Gertrude Bell’s home Red Barns in the Yorkshire Post
As we used to say, everything has been said but everybody hasn’t said it yet
I think the best local government leader in the north is Steve Houghton in Barnsley. Without the advantages that Manchester has, he has made a phenomenal difference over the last 30 years. I think he would have more to offer than Andy Burnham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I understand that. I was referring to the proposal to get rid of PCCs.
So removing police oversight responsibilities would help, but there’s still the by election issue
It’s really weird - I knew quite a few of the cabinet ministers as new MPs in the 2010 - 2015 parliament. They were better than this. But then I hear even backbenchers have to check with no. 10 before talking to the media which is bonkers.