Been gardening again Walt? How're your tomatoes this year?

@FrayedBear

Manure is natural and useful, politicians are not.

@Castlepaloma like I always say "the only good pollie is on that has been dead for 50 years".

Like everything else he watses bandwidth on.

Had a good tomato crop, thanks. But, this is probably my last garden. At the age of 84 with health conditions getting worse, gardening is getting difficult.

@wordywalt that's good & bad. If you have arthritis they say that tomatoes agravate the worst. I'm very sorry to hear that your health is deteriorating. I was recently told that gardening is one of the most beneficial activities for maintaining health physically & mentally. I must admit that seeing my worm farms thriving & eliminating kitchen vegetable waste gives me enormous satisfaction. Perhaps my only real satisfaction.

@FrayedBear Thanks for the post. My problem is not arthritis. It is a combination of COPD, decreasing heart strength, low blood pressure causing weakness, , and increasing problems with blance.

@wordywalt I cannot talk of your first problems as I have no experience. On balance however I can having lived 60+ years believing that I had no ability - therefore no skating, gymnastics etc. I eventually started gentle seated exercises which include a few minutes of balancing. I took up the challenge & within months astonished myself. So much so that a knee replacement several years ago resulted in me being up and not just walking but side walking & doing squats within 14 hours of release from theatre.

@wordywalt as a result of seeing my recovery speed they changed the medical procedure round here.

@FrayedBear I am in physocal therapy now to improve the balance. It does seem to be helping some, but is early in he process.

@wordywalt I used to get funny looks in the supermarket doing one leg stands & squats with the trolly whilst checking out the meat fridges! All I can say is keep plugging at it. I'd hoped by now to have been doing 20-30 klm mountain walks but unfortunately a year of lockdown & exclusion from the national parks has severely interupted if not killed that ambition.