August has been a fun month. Long, sunny days and time off work created an opportunity to visit some fantastic places around Ireland and to catch up with old friends. It also, unexpectedly, provided an opportunity to go shopping with said friends for the first time in more than 30 years. What an exhilarating and expensive experience that turned out to be! Within the space of half an hour and shopping as a pack we each managed to try on and purchase at least one new item of clothing. And, while I’m jealous of my size 8 friend who got two fabulous coats for under 40 euro each, I’m happy with my new dress – d.e.c.k. by Decollage – picked up in an outlet I’d never have considered if I hadn’t been led in forcefully by the girls! So, gentle reader, why not take a leaf from our book, organise lunch with a few school pals, catch up on the gossip and let them inspire you. We were in the outlets at Kildare Village and thoroughly enjoyed our rapid browse.
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It’s definitely possible to make new friends after 50 – I’ve seen my elderly relatives make new friends well past retirement. In fact, retirement seems to be such a sociable experience that I think you’d be hard pressed not to make some new friends so Good Housekeeping needs to do a bit more research on that one, I’d say. But, it’s also true that the friends from our youth probably know us better than anyone – or know us in a way that newer acquaintances would find difficult to match simply because they weren’t there during the formative years. The old friends are always easy to connect with and it’s restful to spend time with them.
I really enjoyed our shopping and lunch in the sunshine – every time I see a long dress in the shops, I think of you. You’d have loved Kildare Village last week – Monsoon had some fab long dresses on the bargain rail reduced from 255 to just a tenner!!
The old friends thing does really work – I got a terrific buzz from our day out in Newry and Warrenpoint and saw the same thing happen for Colin when he met an old school friend at a wedding we were at at the beginning of August. And I also love our annual family knees-up between Christmas and New Year, it cements us as we’re not a big family. It’s all good!
On another note – I read in Good Housekeeping today that it is harder to make friends as an adult, and that’s after reading somewhere else that no-one over 50 makes new friends. I do! Why would you not? Do you think these opinions were voiced by some youthful whipper-snappers???