The days rove on, and, if I don’t have my specs on, they can rove on without me. I. have noticed this, waking into a Friday which suddenly became Thursday. Maybe I found this Thursday Alert in the local shop on questioning the lack of a weekly veg delivery, or perhaps I arrived for a Friday appointment a full 24 hours ahead, all dressed up and alert and toting my picnic. My life is nothing but adventurous and that’s for sure, but the difference to what was, is that it seems the adventure is heading somewhere all by itself. I can catch up, but I am not always the leader, as I once was. Who would have ever thought that things would string away from me in such a way? It laughs me, mostly. I kind of like the olding time, the way I can explode into a puzzled somewhere, all dressed right and with my picnic. Times, yes, it is mildly inconvenient, but with a mostly empty calendar, I can come back again on the right day. It thinks me.

Once (was it once….no it was not) I knew the date. School, children, business, bookings, all of that. The suddenness of old age surprises me. It may surprise others, but they are careful not to hi- light my appearing, just in case I wobble off my perch t’wirly. I remember this with my own mum, but never thought it would come to me. This old ness. No. However, it is here. I walk daily, but it is a bimble, a cautious wander over the rocky track I used to tramp beneath my boots sans thought. Perhaps this olding bollocks is a result of last year, cellulitis, cancer, beloved dog dead, perhaps. Perhaps.

But nonetheless, I will be ongoing, I will plant my feet in every day, even on the wrong date. Honestly, I believe in b**gering on. Our dad taught us that, and now I am here, all alone but living in the most beautiful place in the whole world, and with a strong community of like-minded dafties living just down the village, it doesn’t matter what day it is. A day is a day. The date matters now and then, but not much.

And, within each day there is the promise of adventure, even if I have to catch up with it.