Online Dating After Sixty by Carole Lethbridge

Author:Carole Lethbridge [Lethbridge, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Online dating–Australia., Man-woman relationships.
ISBN: 9781742982939
Publisher: Hybrid Publishers

11

I like talking dirty sometimes

I was delighted to see that the white roses and the white rhododendrons I had planted the first year I was in the mountains were looking so healthy. They should flower well, come spring and summer, depending on how long into November and December the chill lasted. The blueberries and gooseberries I’d planted down near my back fence last season were also all still alive and looked very healthy. I liked the idea of growing berries and intended to plant more. I was hoping to eventually get a crop from them or at least a few berries each day to have with my breakfast cereal. That was, if I managed to get to them before the snails, slugs and the many birds that visited my garden.

No wonder all the old girls around here spent half their lives in their gardens. It really was rewarding, planting things and seeing them grow against all odds. Here it could go from minus two degrees in winter up to 40 degrees in summer. The frosts were savage and it has been known to snow at Christmas – yet in this part of the world Christmas is in summer!

Ann, a neighbour who lived a couple of streets behind me, invited me to afternoon tea to thank me for helping when her car broke down. I hoped she’d made some of her wonderful scones … and she had. I love home-made scones; it was a rarity these days to have such a treat. I caught up with all the local gossip from her and we spent ages discussing our daughters.

She then showed me where she planned to make a veggie patch and plant fruit trees. I noticed some deadlooking plants in her garden. I asked her, ‘What’s all that dead stuff there?’

She laughed. ‘They’re not dead. They’re raspberry canes. In summer I’ll get loads of berries off them. Do you want a couple of plants?’ I thought, why not. ‘I’ll drop them off later when I walk the dogs,’ she promised.

I wasn’t going to be home so she said she would leave them on my front verandah. When I returned, there were three dead-looking sticks with a few roots at the base. They certainly didn’t look too promising.

The next morning I planted them next to the blueberries and gooseberries. I’ll be surprised if they survive, I thought.

I wasn’t doing much on the dating sites. In my spare time I’d been knitting and watching stuff on cable. I’d recently been to a Pages & Pages book launch for Bill Granger’s latest cookbook, held at the Bathers’ Pavilion in Balmoral. While I was there, I got talking to a guy at my table who told me that he was totally gone on Twitter. I was interested, so I set up a Twitter account. When I understood what went on, I found it fascinating and soon started tweeting. I didn’t find it as stimulating as I would have a new lover, but all the same it was fun and another interesting time-filler.

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