In this episode I ponder why a lot of the thirty year oldsare still single and wonder if this is a product of the digital age as fewer and fewer younger people actually meet face to face.

I look back and compare this to my dating experience in thelate 1970’s and early 1980’s. A time of dodgy school and youth club discos. Where asking a girl to dance was a feat of braver and also rejection being a rite of passage. I think about how much easier is was to meet and chat to the femalesex once you looked old enough to be served in the local village pubs. In the 80’s UK you could probably be served alcohol if you were a mature sixteen year old.

In the second half of the podcast I relate my experiencesthe day I visited our local disabled aids store and how I struggled with the high tech folding bed, and finally come to grief with a rising toilet seat I just had to try.

In which I introduce my dog who is a large independent thing who is part wolf. She is trained when she wants to be which means in truth she does what she wants to. This mostly shows as sitting outside in the rain or hunting things. She is a successful hunter as has caught a large and varied range of small furry animals. My dog is disgusting.

I then discuss why my dog eats cats poo and where does this all come from as we never see any cats on out walk. I propose two possible theories!

On my walks you meet a large selection of different owners and I consider how the various dogs and their humans have similar personalities.

And lastly I tell of a recent visit to the hospitals new ultrasound suite which turned out to be a repurposed cupboard where no one had ever considered theneed to fit a wheelchair in!

In which I recall the long hot summer of 2026 and why itgood to have a hot tub especially if you don’t heat it up. Why it is not good to leave a spiky child’s toy at the bottom when sitting down fast, and how some people can stay in cold water forever.

A thought about tattoos as no one was wearing very much inthe heat. What and why people have tattoos and what I should get if I ever got around to having one.

Summer ice cream. Comparing ice cream from my childhood to the weird and wonderful flavours available today.

The joys of solar panels. How we enjoyed staring at the Appas we made and used electricity, and why we lived on cake in the hottest monthsof the year.