peter
“Exercise and continuous fitness is the secret, and even if you are not religious, meditating every day is very important. I used to run a lot, even barefoot and we would swim in the pond every day. We would herd the cattle for miles and when we were hungry we would eat lovely apples from the trees… I’m 82 and I feel excellent. Physically and mentally. Sometimes I wake up in bed thinking I am twenty. I sleep well, I eat well and I enjoy being out. I feel no pain, only a tiny bit of arthritis in my shoulder but it doesn’t bother me at all. I was a lucky chap, I was reared on a farm! We would have a big pig for the whole year and then we would have carrots and parsnips and potatoes that grow in the ground. Pure organic food, not this rubbish that they sell these days… The straw of the corn was used for bedding and was later a fertiliser for the potatoes and for the carrots, there was no need for chemicals… Those potatoes when they were put into boiling water they would throw off their skin and they would taste like pure goodness… I’m telling you, if you were born in a city today you will never experience the freedom and the happiness we had back then…”