Given it was Xmas yesterday - and somehow the conversation always comes up lol
How did my grumpy old grandfather live so long - he drank like a fish smoked his pipe all the time lol
And he was tall and lean ….
Consensus is (and same as every other xmas lol)
> walked everywhere every day - could have owned any car he wanted but he liked to walk …. Or sometimes catch the train …. none of this gym attire - 3 piece suit & his freshly polished patent leather shoes (at dawn) …1 / 5 / 10 / 20kms whatever - wherever he had to go … no worries lol
> always ate 3 meals a day and only 3 meals - always perfectly sized portions on a plate …. Same ol’ of that era meat & 3 veg
> he really had little / if any stress in life, financially anyway
>>>> the cost of that pipe - he ended up losing 1 leg …. would have been 2 if he was likely to live longer … they just ran out of veins for bypasses ….. and as with consensus losing the first leg was it - the inability to walk as he did everywhere gave up the will
I always miss his yelling at xmas time though - kids learnt early never cut in front of the tv during 6 o’clock news or the cricket lol
