Nearing 80 years of age.

 

At age 80, what are your expectations?

 My 78 Th birthday is quickly approaching so I checked the actuarial tables at social security as I do before every birthday. I want to see how much longer the charts say I have.

 

 

 

Actuarial Life Table

a 78 year old woman statistically has about 11 years of life left.

80 looks very close to me right now. I’m not one to hurry time; I’m pretty philosophical.

But there’s something about 80 that has had an effect on me.

As for expectations -I really don’t “future trip” either. I quit having expectations when I was in an auto accident in 1994 that completely changed my life. I had a lot of hopes, plans and expectations when I was younger but the accident, combined with my husbands death in 2004 angled me away from expectations.

I live a day at a time now. I suspect I’ll continue to live a day at a time in the future.

I live with chronic pain and never know from day to day how I’m going to feel.

Guess I really didn’t answer your question did I?

Sri Lanka, pictures

 

Tea country SL

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The Tamil bell in New Zealand

 

A bell with inscriptions in Tamil

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Old Ceylon,

Ellen Wood saved to Ivory and jade carvings

Portrait of the Sinhalese King Sri Vikrama Raja Sinha (r. 1798–1815) Period:Kandyan period (1480–1815) Date:early 19th century Culture:Sri Lanka (Kandy district) Medium:Ivory with engraved and painted designThis portrait of the last Kandyan king displays his regalia of office: the six-pointed crown, a long shirt (kamisiya), a tunic (bo-hettya), and a cape (mante), over which hangs a floral pendant. He wears patterned trousers and is barefooted

 

A decorated 'lime box'  with spoon.

A chew of betel has a half  'Bulath kola', arecanut shavings, a small amount of lime and a few more spices. Chewing betel produces a sense of euphoria. The lime box is carried in one's person.

The spreading r5oots of a tree.

Women knitting lace on a 'beeralu' machine

A gypsy carrying a monkey

A young novice carrying a bowl to get  alms

A Devil dancer

A patient being exorcised

 

South Asian activities, from pinterest.

Milking a cow with the calf standing by

Grand-mother bathing the infant

Learning to ride a bicycle

Cloth sling carrying an infant

Selection of saris worn by Indira Ghandhi

'Kangani' with his daughter and wife

How to wear a sari.

Bathing the sacred 'Lingam'

 

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Pictures and posters almost a century ago

Recruitment poster for the  Army during the Second World War

A Sri Lankan farmer sowing paddy

Advertisement a Century ago

Could be an indoor sport for the period of the 'Lockdown'

 

Random photos from Pinterest

                                                                Soldier carrying a Donkey

Beds for long distance travelers in India

Oven to bake 'Naan' in India

Nights rest for Poultry

Grand-ma cooking

Village oven

Protection against rain

 

An angry wife

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Garden of Eden ?

 

'Penny for the Guy'

 In the year 1972, I was working at Barnsley as Registrar Orthopaedic/Accident. While taking a stroll I came across, children waiting on the pavement with what looked like a scare-crow. They would tell  the passers 'Penny for the Guy' and one was expected to donate pennies. The children were remembering Guy Fawks day. There was a place reserved and supervised by the Fire-Brigade, where in the same  night fire-works were lit.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.

The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605,^[a] as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state.

. The plotters leased an undercroft beneath the House of Lords; Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder that they stockpiled there. The authorities were prompted by an anonymous letter to search Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and they found Fawkes guarding the explosives. He was questioned and tortured over the next few days and confessed to wanting to blow up the House of Lords.

Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. He became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in the UK as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks.