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Chatting to my 85 year old neighbour today, i asked her if she ever suffered from anxiety when she was my age, she said "no luv, anxiety wasnt known then, we were just told we were suffering from our nerves and given a tonic or the real bad cases were sent to the asylum"

God! I would never have survived in those days im such a wuss :)

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Sounds like my grandmother, shes 86 mind you i set her pills up for her every week, does she take them? nope she'll take her "tonic" instead lol. God bless her

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sarahjaneR in reply to Mpa5524

Made tough in those days lol x

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sarahjaneR in reply to sarahjaneR

Im cutting her hair on wednesday i'll ask her for some of her tonic lol Although i have a feeling it might be whiskey based :)

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Agora1 in reply to sarahjaneR

lol sarahjaneR I was just wondering what was in that tonic, you'll have to let us know. :) xx

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sarahjaneR in reply to Agora1

:)

She's such a lovely lady. I never charge her for her haircut but she waits tll dark and puts the money through my letterbox lol. Then i creep out and put it back through hers :)

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Agora1 in reply to sarahjaneR

sarahjane, you are a sweetheart :) x

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sarahjaneR in reply to Agora1

I have my moments lol

I asked her if she wanted the same style as mine and she asked what it was called, i said its called a shaggy pixie cut and she said "did you get it done in the dark" :) xx

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