Mine too. Living in south east London, my mother recalled the doctor visiting on horseback, wearing a top hat and tails.
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Absolutely. My mother was born in 1909, the second youngest in a family of ten. Most of my motherâs siblings were Victorians. My maternal grandmother had seventeen pregnancies and died in her fifties. My mother told exactly the same story about the doctor - with one addition - my grandmother calling out from her bed saying âLizzie (eldest sister) stop kissing the doctor and let him come inâ. The good news? My mother lived to 89 and I think couldnât quite believe it. Iâm grateful.
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Not my words!
I posted as I thought what the unknown author wrote was cheerful if it applied to those who are able to read it.
I agree that as you, and others have mentioned it is those born in the mid to late Victorian era and lived for 80+ years that probably witnessed more change than most.
Having researched and written extensively of my forebears the Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian times were unprecedented in development and change.
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Of course you have! Iâd forgotten. You are probably better able to write about this than many of us. 
Boomer alert! 
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I thought this was cheering⊠Iâd imagined it would stay stuck in limbo until after the next election.
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Unwrapped second foot earlier three weeks on from that operation. What a different pair of feet I have now compared to previously and walking is beginning to get easier without crutches. Physio starts here at home three times a week from monday, not looking forward to a man playing with my tootsies I can tell you.
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Today is Global Champagne Day⊠tchin-tchin 
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Is it? What a great excuse 
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Last day at work for a week and down to the 86 tomorrow. 
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Cremant de Bourgogne here, although we do have a bottle of the other stuff tucked away.
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Weâve had problems getting our phones to work with the my wifeâs new Citroen. Seems that itâs not an unusual problem and the car has been back once already without success. A couple of years back I bought a used Huawei relatively cheaply because I needed an NFC reader, and the phone has been sat idle since.
Thought to check it out just in case, and it connects without trouble. Result! So I have a SIM coming with 24GB of data and a duration of 24 months that can go in the phone - this will live full time in the car and provide sat nav. The phone also has a nice feature where I can turn off mobile data for all apps except the ones I want running, so there shouldnât be any hidden data consumers.
Had my first experience of french kiné earlier. Ladies, get your bunions done and you too might have a lovely young man sitting on your sofa massaging both your feet on his lap, never even gave a thought at being tickled and some people pay a fortune for this 
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Oh Shiba, do you know how lucky you are in being a female and writing the following?
If I was to write that, and editing slightly to make a point
Chaps, get your bunions done and you too might have a lovely young woman sitting on your sofa massaging both your feet on her lap, never even gave a thought at being tickled and some people pay a fortune for this
I would be called a dirty old man. 
Perhaps not, I have not been called that yet, despite more than once exclaiming the joys of having myriad beautiful young women in my house 7 days a week. 
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Shiba, as long as you donât go the whole Fergie route youâll be fine
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Just embrace it and move on.
edit I suspect the reality would be more like Hattie Jaques do the massage. 
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Ooh Matron!
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This morning the commune has started resurfacing the chemin that comes down to our property! 
As mentioned elsewhere, Help please with the nuances we have been talking to the mayors (previous and current) since 2019 about the state of the road - not ours, but only used by us except for the top bit.
The gullies down which storm water pours have got deeper every year - in places now 10cm below the middle and sides of the road. Not great for our gite guests and hard to explain to those returning the following year that itâs still not fixed. So this morning is a small joy.
And this morningâŠ
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Great hike yesterday with the hiking club in the Larzac around Millau. Some tremendous views of the bridge, and what an engineering feat that was. Then onto the remains of the Oppidum which was a fortified village originally created around the 8th or 9th Century BC. A fascinating bit of history and that certainly gave some perspective to time! Some strong winds and pretty fresh as most of the hike was up high in the open, but stayed dry and great to see another lovely area. From the aerial view of Millau itâs certainly alot larger than I thought it was, with having just visited the old centre previously.
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Very good news @SuePJ , but another solution might have been to create a narrow channel in the centre allowing the water to drain that way and removing the danger of exhausts and sumps being damaged.
I do agree though that that would not prevent the wearing away of the wheeltracks.
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