The 2012 Paralympic Games are still six years away but already the sixty-five year old Terry Ravenscroft is putting together a team for the Throwing the Zimmer (Walking) Frame competition - should such an event be included. And when he has time to fit it in, of course. For this is a man who has many other diversions to fill his waking hours (of which he has more to fill than most people, thanks to the troublesome prostate gland that wakes him up in urgent need of a pee a least six times every night ).
Stairlift to Heaven, the journal of an old age pensioner, is an irreverent, hilarious look at one man’s life after retirement. Although written by an old age pensioner, non-coffin dodgers should not be put off by this. Everyone will be old one day, and there are many valuable lessons in coping with advancing age to be learned within its pages (including the aforementioned prostate gland problem and the countless bladder examinations it brings with it); you will learn how to cope with increasing forgetfulness; how to become adept at dealing with junk mail; how not to go about capturing a Christmas goose; how to deal with the increasing forgetfulness....sorry, I forgot, I already mentioned that; discover why you might be well advised to avoid swimming lessons; why you would do well to give faith healers the widest of wide berths; learn how to deal with neighbours from hell; along with many more tips to help you through the minefield that comes with old age. But most of all you will learn how you can have lots of FUN whilst you’re doing it.
Stairlift to Heaven, the journal of an old age pensioner, is an irreverent, hilarious look at one man’s life after retirement. Although written by an old age pensioner, non-coffin dodgers should not be put off by this. Everyone will be old one day, and there are many valuable lessons in coping with advancing age to be learned within its pages (including the aforementioned prostate gland problem and the countless bladder examinations it brings with it); you will learn how to cope with increasing forgetfulness; how to become adept at dealing with junk mail; how not to go about capturing a Christmas goose; how to deal with the increasing forgetfulness....sorry, I forgot, I already mentioned that; discover why you might be well advised to avoid swimming lessons; why you would do well to give faith healers the widest of wide berths; learn how to deal with neighbours from hell; along with many more tips to help you through the minefield that comes with old age. But most of all you will learn how you can have lots of FUN whilst you’re doing it.
