My world through the looking glass……

 I have noticed lately that, the more I use my i-Pad,  the more I feel as though  I am looking through the screen into an entirely different world.   In fact, I now think that this little machine is my virtual best friend, but like Alice in Wonderland, I had better be careful that I don’t fall down the
rabbit hole !!!

 You might well ask just what is it I do that makes me open the curtains and take a good look at what is going on around me.  Well, the BBC World Service  is my favourite radio channel, and from there I get all sorts of information about what’s going in the world.  Its very easy to sit here, in little old New Zealand, clean, green and in the most part, quiet, but out there I can see it’s a rough and ready existence in the world for many of us oldies.

 Being old can be tiresome.  How can you make your aging body do what it’s told?  Find your mind slipping too?  It's time to take control and make decisions on brain training.  I wish I could say that I have a physical exercise programme too, but I just count walking around the house as my daily workout.  I also chase the dogs, have an occasional game of ball with my grandchildren, and water the plants.  Sounds strenuous, doesn’t it? 

 And talking about kids, my grandson asked me an interesting question. He asked me if my body had shrunk so much that my skin didn’t fit it any more!!!  Now, that’s a thought for us wrinklies.

 One of the most useful sections of my i-Pad is the Notes.  I use this as a thought catcher. As my mind runs a bit like a roadhouse rat, thoughts come charging through one ear and out the other, so I quickly tap them into Notes, where I allocate the important stuff with a triple AAA rating.  These are the things I try to do first, once they are identified as being important.  Many people just trundle through their day, and never take a moment to recognise the most important thing that needs to be done.

 If you just do that one task, then you are 95% ahead of the game.