AliBee1

Hi. I was given a DVD called Untouchable. It is French with sub titles and is a true story about the friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-wise ex-con carer. It is joyous. Well worth watching and uplifting. Glad your choir did you good. Love AliBee

CallendersgalAdministrator in reply to AliBee1

Thanks for that AliBee1. I LOVE French movies anyway, and that sounds terrific! Definitely going on my list of things to watch.

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sassy59Ambassador

Hi, it’s funny how things happen all at once isn’t it? If one thing goes wrong, it can just snowball.

We’ve had a pleasant week on the whole, seeing grandchildren who never fail to make us smile. Our youngest grandson (10 months) had his check up and is doing well. He’s into everything now.

Laughter is indeed the best medicine and it’s so good to really laugh out loud. You’ve Been Framed makes me do that.

Take care everyone, have a great weekend if you can. Thinking of you all. Xxxxx😘

CallendersgalAdministrator

Laughter IS the best medicine MAS_Nurse, maybe followed closely by having a good cry. And I bet you felt like doing the latter when all those troubles piled on top of you, one after the other.

I really don't like that notion doing the rounds nowadays, that you can join a class to go through the motions of laughing together, as some kind of therapy. I like my laughter to be genuine: the sort that makes your ribs ache and your eyes water.

Upbeat music is also a fantastic mood enhancer, but I always think it's important to be quite sure it is upbeat, otherwise you can send your mood in quite another direction. It must be awe-inspiring to make your own music in a choir. It's so uplifting.

I had a treat this week in the form of a BBC comedy special from the team that make the mocumentary This Country. I find the characters so entertaining and true to real life. It never fails to make me laugh.

And I provided the laughter for our dance teacher at Scottish Country Dance this week. I wasn't feeling the greatest with my arthritis so was walking the dances rather than dancing them, along with one of our very senior members who still comes along in her 80s. We were partnered, and were quickly moving along to get back to our allotted places in the dance, when our dance teacher burst out into peals of laughter saying we looked 'like two tin soldiers marching across the dance set at speed'. She was right too, when we thought about it! So sometimes we can even unwittingly provide the cause of a good belly laugh!

Hellebelle

Hi, the thing that has made me laugh more than anything else recently is the car share episode with Peter Kay and the monkey. I laughed so much I cried. I really did fee much better after that. There is a clip on Facebook going round at the moment or people could probably find it in YouTube.

FredaE

laughter Yoga they call it and it sounds dreadful but Once when Victor was at a manage your Parkinson's group before he was re diagnosed with MSA we found ourselves doing laughter yoga. We were a miserable crew and deeply disapproving but surprisingly quickly we found ourslves quaking with unforced laughter and feeling so much better for it. You need a leader who is outgoing and not at all inclined to think she is making a fool of herself. It was brilliant

Freda E

secrets22

MAS_Nurse...you did indeed have a day of bewilderment.

My day was much the same as usual ,busy,but David was feeling very down and wished his life would end,and I told him not think like that,as life is always worthwhile despite what life throws at us.

However I did laugh when I asked David why he was so miserable,and he said ''well,i am here sat on the commode doing nothing''.