Gardening and Health Resolutions

Yeah, I'm not worried by a change of season, trying. During the spring, is there anything that you do for your health differently? No, I don't think, I think you need to get up maybe a bit earlier because it's lighter earlier. Hopefully, it's warmer days, but I don't, and certainly the garden will be a bit of focus, what's coming up in the garden, you what's ready to come. Would you say that maybe a hobby that you'd likely start in the spring is gardening? Yeah now with some help I have a gardener who comes but I'll be out there whether he's there or not you know. Yeah definitely start in the spring, not the least just to tidy up after the winter and see what's still growing and things like that. In the past have you ever made a health resolution, particularly just in the spring, that really worked for you? Yeah, I don't think I've just chosen it because it's spring. I mean, over, you know, I was working actually, I worked till I was 67. I didn't retire till I was 67. And so going to work was a big thing. And I commuted to London, so he went off early in the day. It was always better if it was a nicer day or snow hadn't fallen and messed up the transport home, but not, you know, I wouldn't just do something because it was spring. I would do it because that's, you know, just getting on with things and seeing what works, if it's a better day or not, yeah. So, if you were to encourage someone in your community to make a particular positive step for their health during the spring, what would you say to them? I don't know. I guess initially to find out what they want themselves. You can't go telling people what they should do. I think I wouldn't presume to tell them what to do, support whatever they want. I mean, I would have to look at myself because I've had one new knee and I'm waiting to have the other one. But my GP would not actually even send my request letter off, and this was before 2021, till I'd lost weight because she said, they won't do it if you're overweight Mary and I'm sure I'm not sure that's completely true now because I did lose weight and I went to Weight Watchers. I used to send her my weight every month on a postcard till she sent the letter off and and then you're still waiting a long time for it anyway. So then I had a very successful knee op. It's made me much more conscious about keeping my weight at a very level, a very even level you know because I had to do it once to get my new knee and I thought well I've done it and I'll stay you know I'll keep focusing on that because I need my new knee. Waiting for my new knee was rather interrupted by the need for spinal surgery so it's been a really difficult time for me you know I just thought I was gonna have a new knee and before they could do that they had to do spinal surgery and I couldn't work I couldn't go anywhere for a year I I couldn't travel fly or anything because of my spinal surgery, but I've had the new knee now, so it's Good, so it sort of makes me anxious thinking. I don't want anything else to happen before I have my other knee done So I'm more conscious about my weight of my health and things like that I wasn't not before because when you work in the health service You are aware what's going on with your own health other than other people's So it's made me focus, probably focus more on what I can do for myself than trying to just go to work and do things and rush around. Yeah, does that make sense?