my photo, Riding the Waves, is how I see this gift....*big smile*

At a pretty advanced age - 68 - I have a new partner, younger than me and very organised, who cannot understand why I just CANT seem to concentrate on things and continually tries to improve me. I do have a few strategies that work, but takes a long time. Whether the relationship will last or not remains to be seen - I think a more distant one with him might work! I am very much at the beginning of this relationship, with a close friend of my husband, whose wife died not so long ago, and would r… Continue

I have been having problems with clearing and untidyness all my life, as I know many others with ADD have trouble with!! ... has rather escalated lately as after my mothers passing, I am having to clear out her flat. I move things out gradually, but then they add to the clutter I have here since my husband died and before!! .. I still have his things and what is more, his father and mothers things - well, not clothes, obviously, but memory things going far far far back (his father was born in 18… Continue

My beloved mother died six weeks ago - we were so close, particularly so since my husbands death four years ago and have kept each other company - even though the last years have been so difficult in many years, it has been (showing my age here)................ The first four years of my life, when my father was involved in WW2 and we travelled around, being evacuated from heavy bombing for four years - and the last four years of my mothers life, we were closely together again, helping each othe… Continue