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EddieM
Worst aspect I find is I can't see anything close up anymore.
DIY and getting older
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I'm in my 40s now, and have had a desk job since my 20s. As a teenager up until the office job I worked with a carpenter / kitchen fitter and picked up enough skills to fix up the houses I live in.
Moved to a new (but v.old) house a few months ago. Fit new kitchen sink, new toilet, wc sink, bath, rerouted rising main, moved doorframe, an awful lot of wallpaper scraping, plastering, painting, minor electrics. And gardening. Took a day, with a chainsaw, to remove a forest of 10ft hollyhocks.
This is around a full time job and parenting.
This thread made me laugh in agreement. I no longer have the stamina I had. I constantly ache. My hands are fragile. My back keeps going out. I'm exhausted. I enjoy early nights and silence.
Not gonna lie. Not gonna stop either.
Moved to a new (but v.old) house a few months ago. Fit new kitchen sink, new toilet, wc sink, bath, rerouted rising main, moved doorframe, an awful lot of wallpaper scraping, plastering, painting, minor electrics. And gardening. Took a day, with a chainsaw, to remove a forest of 10ft hollyhocks.
This is around a full time job and parenting.
This thread made me laugh in agreement. I no longer have the stamina I had. I constantly ache. My hands are fragile. My back keeps going out. I'm exhausted. I enjoy early nights and silence.
Not gonna lie. Not gonna stop either.
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EddieM
A chainsaw for hollyhocks... them's some hollyhocks.
Im only 6 ft. They dwarfed me. Trunks arm thick. Never knew they got so big. Surprisingly fragile, like balsa wood.
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EddieM
Probably coz they're annuals, biannuals or short lived perennials, seed like crazy though.
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Bodd
Did you get her number
No ;he just gave her his
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Bodd
No ;he just gave her his
Gave her a thumbs up?
All the students are young enough to be my grandchildren. LOL
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sodthisforfun
Did you manage to get a photo? Didn't think hollyhocks had stems that thick.
Yes, this is annoying. Nothing in focus close up but can't see anything further away wearing glasses.. Getting older is so fun!
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sodthisforfun
Stop standing on the mirror, it'll breakPut on a bit of weight but I can still look down and see my nob
It's being a desk jockey that is making you ache all over. I think most of us on here have been in some form of engineering most of our lives so have been pretty active in our employment. I spent two years as an on-site engineering manager and hated being tied to a desk. I would text the site engineers to make a bogus phone call to say they needed my knowledge on a certain machine just to get me out the office. My new job involves a fair bit of desk work but I simply get on with the physical stuff and pass the 'paperwork' over to my boss to complete. We seem to have struck a happy medium.
BTW, Hollyhocks usually only grow to about 6 feet tall though the record for one is just over 13' in the UK.
Wish I'd taken some photos of them for scale. I have incidental ones with them in. These were not the big ones.
Hedge behind first ine is 9ft
That's yer belly button.
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