Skip to content

Redundant Midlife

What happens when you reach middle-age? Work frustrations, redundancy, bodily decline and even a hip replacement maybe? Don't worry, we can help. A bit.

  • Home
  • Work & Redundancy
  • Midlife Issues
  • Health & Fitness
    • Hip replacement stories
  • Ask Marvin
  • Fake News
  • All Posts
  • About
    • Midlife Photo Gallery

Tag: keeping fit in middle age

Making the perfect cup of tea

Making the perfect cup of tea. Just remember it’s something to savour, not rush.

October 12, 2020 marvinmidlife Tea & Cake

Making the perfect cup of tea is underestimated. Most people rush it and end up with something hot but ultimately disappointing. A bit like me. Read how is should done.

Read more
Low fat or middle-age spread

Middle-age spread is not low fat margarine, but do people find it as tasty?

July 2, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness

Middle-age spread is usually frowned upon, but it could be tastier than you think. Is it worth the pain to hold back that spreading stomach?

Read more
Make yourself happy, do it for Don

Agonising over how to be happy? Don’t do it for you. Do it for Don.

April 6, 2020 marvinmidlife Midlife Health & Fitness

If you’ve been struggling with how to be happy, here’s something you can do to improve your mental health. Don’t try and make changes for you, do it for someone else. Do it for Don.

Read more
Ask Marvin

I’m fat from too many Christmas mince pies and alcohol. Should I do a dry January to improve my health or is it a waste of time?

January 9, 2020 Aunt Marvin Ask Marvin

I have eaten and drunk to excess over the Christmas period, and am now having trouble squeezing back into my suit. I need to lose a couple of pounds, and am surrounded by people talking about dry or “damp” Januaries. Should I join this sober party, or continue with my life of excess?

Read more

Feature: Hip Replacement

hip replacement story starting with arthritis
A hip replacement story, from initial twinge to running around post op.

Working lives

  • Working from home multi tasking 10 key ways to avoid madness when working from home during Coronavirus lockdown. What are you up to?
  • Role playing Exciting role playing doesn’t just happen in the bedroom, it happens in interviews too.
  • Redundancy 10 surprising redundancy facts to know if you’re leaving soon…

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...

Health, Fitness and Hips

  • Dentist's chair Man trying to recreate Gascgoine’s “dentist’s chair” celebration ends up having root canal surgery
  • Marvin the paranoid android Marvin the Paranoid Android describes midlife perfectly. Read how, and what you can do differently
  • hip replacement story starting with arthritis Scarily close to middle age hip replacement. What was I thinking pre-op? (Part 3)
  • Decision making with a coin Decision making stressing you out? Here’s some tips for making that difficult decision

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Redundant midlife. It's more than not working...

Ask Marvin Answered…

  • Father Christmas is fat, grey and old. I’m exactly the same, and yet no one wants me in their house at Christmas. What can I do?
    Aunt Marvin
  • My work suit no longer fits, and my birthday suit isn’t what it was. What can I do before I return to the office?
    Aunt Marvin
  • I have been offered a promotion at work but it could mean sacrificing my friends. Should I take it?
    Aunt Marvin

Video wall on the dailybore.co.uk. Password required.

Sign up for updates


Loading

Categories

  • Ask Marvin
  • Fake news
  • Hip replacement stories
  • Main sections
  • Midlife Health & Fitness
  • Midlife Issues
  • Redundancy, Interviews, Work
  • Tea & Cake

midlife issues

  • Canal boat holiday better tgan camping? Camping or canal boat holiday? What’s better for grumpy middle aged men?
  • Lagotto puppy It’s a dog’s life. Why buying a puppy might not be the answer to midlife stress
  • Shock of middle-aged man in Turkish barber experience. Is it the answer to midlife grooming? 1 Shock of middle-aged man in Turkish barber experience. Is it the answer to midlife grooming?

In Other (Largely Fake) News

  • Home schooling Wild celebrations by parents as home schooling humiliation ends
    March 22, 2021
  • Donald Trump face mask Donald Trump’s face mask refuses to stay on after Covid scare
    October 9, 2020
  • Panic buying petrol Anti panic buying man left stranded on M1
    September 25, 2021

Archives

Tea break!

  • is coffee good for you Is Coffee Good For You? 12 Proven Health Benefits
  • Bourbon biscuit cake Bourbon Biscuits. Are they as posh as they sound?

Tags

puppy talespersonal popularitylas vegas for over 40ship painanxietydaytime tvbrain functionship surgeryruined careerserotic storiesinterview clothingonline gaming midlifemiddle age cyclingcaffeine healthhip replacement heroesoffice insultholidays in middle agemiddle age gamingattractive organisationscoffeebody shapedry januarynostalgiamarried lifebest companies to work forbad habitsboring worksilicone baking mouldsmale middle age arthritisFunko Pops

Loading

Search Forums

A helpline for those suffering with drug and alcohol addiction.

Rehab4addiction