Living Well This Week – June 26 #WWWhimsy

Dear Readers

Welcome to my weekly Living Well This Week post where I share not only what I’ve been up to, but also ideas and information I’ve discovered during the week to help us all Live Well and Enjoy Life.

I’m enjoying writing my Living Well This Week letters to you and revisiting what I’ve done since my last letter. It’s the school holidays so I’ll be spending some time with my grandsons. Today we are off to mini golf which should be fun.

Living Well This Week – June 26

Highlight of the Week

Mike and I have been wanting to take a Norwegian cruise and found one for September 2025. We have booked the cruise and will also do some land travel, exploring England, Scotland and Ireland. It has been a trip that has been on our bucket list for some time and we are excited to be planning our adventure despite it being over a year away.

Family Time

Fun with my grandsons last Sunday morning. We made pikelets, played football, played online bowling and then some drawing. It’s always special spending time with family.

Out and About

Lunch out again at the same place but when the food is good, why not? We recently joined the Carina Leagues Club and after three visits we are still impressed with the quality of the meals. This week, Mike selected the Barramundi and I went for a Butter Chicken curry with rice and naan bread. Delicious!!!

Health and Wellbeing

• A visit to the doctor this week to find out the results of my blood tests and bone density scan. Whilst my blood tests came back with flying colours, my bone density scan showed that I have some osteopenia and a 10%-15% chance of a fracture over the next ten years. I am grateful that I keep my fitness levels up with strength training, cardio workouts and my running otherwise who knows what my results would be? Here is an article I found which may be helpful. Have you had a bone density scan? Perhaps it is time you book one in.
  
  https://www.liveup.org.au/healthy-ageing-resources/healthy-ageing-articles/exercise-and-osteoporosis

• I subscribe to the Jean Hailes Website and received this interesting email during the week. I’m sharing with you as it’s all about Healthy Ageing and it has some very informative information. https://www.jeanhailes.org.au/health-a-z/healthy-ageing

• As usual I took a couple of sessions in the Strong Healthy Women Virtual studio as well as joining in with the ladies for a couple of Strength sessions myself and daily walking with my Daily Walking in June Facebook Group challenge. Everyone has been sharing photos of where they walk and getting involved which is great.
  
  Here is where I walk, a local park about 1km from where I live. It is so peaceful here and one morning I recorded the bird song and posted to Instagram,
  

Buys of the week – Taking advantage of the June sales

Mike has lost weight and most of his clothes don’t fit. I took him off to buy some new clothes and also took advantage of the End of Financial Year sales myself. I needed some black trousers and found two pair for the price of one. Slightly different but exactly what I was looking for. I mostly where skinny leg fit but wanted something a little fuller. I find that the Basque brand is a perfect fit size wise and also being petite sizes the length means I don’t have to take up the hem!

With Mike’s encouragement (not that I really needed any), I also purchased a pair of loafers and a pair of ankle boots, both 40% off and a stylish sweatshirt style, again 30% off. To finish it off, I bought this watch from Big W. It was $15 and I can actually see the face without my glasses. Sure it isn’t a high end product but it does the job and it was exactly what I was looking for.

In the Kitchen – a quick and easy pasta dish

Take two cans of tuna in oil and chilli, add some olives, mushrooms and baby spinach and you have a delicious (a little spicy) sauce to accompany some spaghetti or pasta of your choice. This is a quick and easy meal and we buy the John West tuna with calcium and protein which was recommended by Mike’s endocrinologist. This brand of tuna with chilli actually comes with a whole chilli in the can which I chopped up and added to the sauce. It makes it hot and spicy but you could tone it down by adding cream or some plain greek yogurt.

If you don’t like hot and spicy, then try other flavours such as lemon and pepper or just go for the plain and maybe add some garlic and Italian Herbs.

Reading, Watching and Listening

It was time for our monthly What’s On Your Bookshelf? Link up where we share what we have been reading over the last month. I had some fabulous reads that I reviewed in my post What’s On Your Bookshelf? – June 2024.

What have you been watching lately? As you know we are fans of British crime drama . We watched Season 2 of Trigger Point starring is a British crime thriller television series starring Vicky McClure as a police bomb disposal expert in London. We had enjoyed the first series, but I felt the second series was a little too violent for me. It certainly had me on the edge of my seat and I really don’t know how these bomb disposal experts cope in such stressful situations. I’m sure they must suffer from PTSD at some point.

No audio books this week and I missed listening to one on my walk. Any suggestions for me???? Let me know in the comments.

This week on the Women Living Well After 50 Podcast my guest is author and coach, Meredith Walters. Meredith wrote the book ‘This Animal Body’ which I reviewed last week in my What’s On Your Bookshelf? post. She was so delightful and radiated such a calm personality. We discussed Learning The Language of the Body and why sometimes we need to tune in and listen to our bodies, rather than our brain. This Animal Body has just been named a finalist in the International Book Awards which is very exciting for Meredith. Click on the image to get to the post.

So that was my week, over to you, what have you been up to this week? I’d love to hear from you…..

Have a lovely week!

Women Living Well After 50

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