Thank you, but those pictures are not mine though.
I had to get those to show the op for clarity, since I don't have it in my food pics collection.
I've been inspired by the pictures to make something like that, but with a little twist of my own.
At first, I wasn't interested in making that style of egg-toast due to lack of flavour, until I got inspired.
I'll show it to you when I make it.
Have a pleasant Sunday. 🙂
How's it going Mariangeles?
Indeed, you gave a great feedback. I knew right from the get-go that the ATTACHED "egg-in-a-hole" pictures are just for illustration purposes (from: Melissa's Southern Style Kitchen) which is perfectly fine.
I look forward to seeing how the creative tip you gave here for the egg-in-a-hole (egg toast) turns out when you're through.
folake4u: Good to hear that you're doing well. Alhamdulilah.
Well, the post is quite clear. Companionship >>> Procreation. I'm also not a fan of large families so yeah. Raising kids is not for the faint hearted.
Lol. Anything Fol.ake puts her mind to do, she can achieve it, so I can thrive in any sector.
Have a lovely evening.
Right, I CLEARLY get your initial summations on companionship now.
Second, indeed, the ability to thrive in "nearly" every condition is key. If you don't succeed initially then you try AGAIN. In the event that things just don't work out in any sector, then move out, [DON'T continue to hug the transformer]... Just "cut your losses and run." That's the true warrior spirit needed for survival on Earth.
This topical NL thread has been one of the BEST ever that I've read and contributed to since I joined this discussion forum in 2005. Great convos from a lot of intelligent posters here on issues that look very obvious, BUT people just don't pay VERY close attention to until the dying minutes with regards to the crucial senior citizens' years of 60 years and above for us and our parent(s).
oxygenator: For sickle cell patients and all others suffering from leg ulcer know that this problem is difficult to heal because of the peculiarity of the case.
These patients suffer from blood circulation caused by a blockage of normal blood flow leading to tissue damage, swelling, and pain.
For this reason wound continues to expand even while positive efforts are made to heal the wound.
When other efforts are exhausted hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be the only shortcut to achieve a successful healing of the wound.
In Nigeria they will accuse "village people", blood suckers, vampires, witches and wizards, marching poisons, enemies, juju etc: all na big lie.
Since the cause is not known they can never heal such leg ulcers.
Adeyinka12: why did you always want everything to be in english , later u will be searching for english name of agbada . Anyway you can call it ''glue teeth glue teeth'' moyin moyin /moi moi
Bump.
Pizza, Spaghetti, Macaroni, Brioche, etc, are originally Italian food words and the last word Brioche is a French food word with NO English names. So, why would an original Yoruba delicacy called "Moyin Moyin" [or alternatively spelled as "Moin Moin" in Yoruba language], "Akara" in Yoruba or "Kosai" in Hausa languages, or "Kuli Kuli" in Hausa language have English names.
While some parts of Yorubaland call the famous Yoruba beans delicacy "Olele/Oole" based off of regional dialects, others call it "Moyin Moyin" or "Moin Moin" when. Yoruba folks sometimes have more than one word for the same thing. The walnut is called Asala and Awusa in different parts of Yorubaland for instance.
The correct and full Yoruba spelling of the Yoruba beans delicacy is "Moyin Moyin" and this can be gleaned from the 1960s, 1970s and right into the 1980s magazines and newspapers we read back until I started noticing the shorter spelling of "Moin Moin.
So, "Moyin Moyin" was then alternatively contracted to "Moin Moin" with the letter "Y" being silent from about the 1990s. All other odd spellings which have NO meanings such as "moi moi" or "mai mai" are pure corruptions or bastardizations of the original Yoruba language spelling by mostly non-Yorubas which started appearing from the very late 1990 to the 2000s. Sissie Yemmie and Sissie Jemimah (who are popular Nigerian food YouTubers of Yoruba origin) ALWAYS use "Moin Moin" contracted from the ORIGINAL longer Yoruba name "Moyin Moyin" in their food recipe videos. So, that's the etymology of "Moyin Moyin" or "Moin Moin."
I hope you're doing OK in your State of residence and have made some headways based off of some of the resources I shared here with you.
I've noted the specifics in your last very fantastic post right ABOVE. I like the total costing of the drone purchases that you made in that post. This so-called new NL AI system deleted my original reply to your post after I quoted it and got hit by a ban. It's a very unusual thing that's happening these days on NL that posts keep getting deleted automatically and this insidious problem has not yet been fixed as promised by the dude who owns this discussion forum on his thread.
WizardOfNG: This VDM, in particular, is nothing but a glorified illiterate, cynical opportunist and conman.
Anyone with a working brain will know he deliberately says thing that make no logical sense yet he knows such will resonate with a lot of Nigerias who are illiterate, shallow and unrefined like himself.
The bolded in your post is the koko of the matter. I am an unapologetic supporter of the government of PBAT because I am exposed and know what Mr.President is trying to achieve.
I have seen first-hand, having schooled, worked and live in a top ten nation of the World for decades, the transformation Tinubu is trying to achieve for ordinary Nigerians to understand such cannot come without sacrifice from each and every one of us because the difference is ridiculous between where the average Nigerian and where the average Brit or German is.
Those who have seen better and know how it was achieved believe in Tinubu. Whereas those whose only concern is what to eat, and not living a fulfilled life as others do worldwide, will naturally complain.
Which is fine as I can understand that is the only life they have always known. What is not cool is for Nigeria to be full of opportunists like VDM rather than those who can explain to the less exposed and less educated what tough reforms will deliver for them eventually.
Even worse for crude and dangerous thieves like VDM, who used to do video porn for gays to make money, to be 'herding' young, gullible and impressionable Nigerians into an intolerant Obidient-like cult fed brainwashing messages that makes them believe government and leaders must be hated, targeted and perhaps even killed as Kanu preacher during #EndSARS.
Social media activist VeryDarkMan has finally addressed the controversy surrounding Davido and Cubana Chief Priest’s recent visit to President Tinubu’s office. In his statement, he weighed in on the public backlash, clarifying his stance.
mu2sa2: Yes, Ahmad gumi was detained on the basis of false allegations from Nigeria to the Saudis. When they discovered that it was his enemies that were behind the spurious allegations, the Saudis had no choice but to release him. Stop spreading falsehood against his father. Sheikh Abubakar Gumi was a reverred islamic scholar who advocated peace throughout his lifetime and was never associated with violence. His videos are available online for those who want to assess the man objectively.
livinbygrace: You see all these guys parading themselves as importer/exporters in Trade fair,Alaba,Lagos island and many more places are all into shady deals. They are just using business as a cover and they even have association.
They will contribute money and ship out drugs, then use the proceeds to import goods. You see those ones doing show off ,buying 200 cows for burial,that one following artistes up and down and that their crew,lavishing money are all on this table.To them its normal business.
You've said it all.
Those of us with access to advanced crime data from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the NDLEA going back to over 30 years ago can indeed confirm what you stated ABOVE. That's exactly what they do while FALSELY claiming to be legitimate traders from especially Anambra State in Alaba International, Ladipo Auto Spare Parts market or elsewhere. Capital punishments have to be returned ASAP to minimize the spread of hard drugs which cause crimes to spike in any society. Period.
Goodvibes007: The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an automobile spare parts dealer, Levi Ubodoeze, for attempting to export two kilograms of cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola.
In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said operatives launched a three-week manhunt for Mr Ubodoeze before his arrest.
“Following the seizure of the cocaine consignment at a logistics company in Aspanda, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo, Lagos, on 21st February 2025, swift contacts were made with Angolan authorities, leading to the arrest of the intended recipient. This, in turn, helped identify the sender,” Mr Babafemi stated.
NDLEA operatives tracked Mr Ubodoeze to his residence on Ago Palace Way, Isolo, Lagos, on 6th March, where he was intercepted in a KIA Sport Utility Vehicle while attempting to flee.
A search of the vehicle uncovered 75.5 kilograms of phenacetin—commonly used as a cutting agent for cocaine—packaged and branded as semolina. A digital scale for weighing illicit drugs was also recovered from his house.
Mr Ubodoeze reportedly admitted to dealing in cocaine while operating as a spare parts dealer at Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos. He told NDLEA officials that his Angolan contact alerted him upon being arrested, prompting his attempted escape.
Most of these so-called Ibo importers claiming to be Alaba International traders and Trade Fairs traders, leading right into those Anambra-based ones are into money laundering from illegal hard drugs manufacturing and trafficking. Too many of these young Ibos especially from Anambra State have been arrested over the last 30 years by the various criminal intelligence agencies in various parts of Nigeria such as Lagos State where many illegal and highly toxic methamphetamine labs have been discovered by NDLEA special operatives right within the highbrow estates of Victoria Garden City in Ajah, Ajao Estate in Isolo, Satellite Town, Iba New Site, Nnewi, Asaba, Obosi, Ozubulu, Ihiala, etc, and this why I have stopped believing the FALSE claims that these people are making legit money.
Coscharis is just part of the very few among them that have verifiable and clean money. The rest have opaque and illicit sources of income. Period
CommonSense1967: Anyone supporting the incompetent, failed former Governor of Anambra has no right to call anyone a failure. Your brain must have failed for you to conclude that a failure like Obi is the best person to lead Nigeria. You need to have your brain checked out for malfunctioning.
In fact, people who called Obi a failure back then are the same people promoting him now... What does that tell you about these people... I smell desperation for an Igbo presidency. Nothing more.
Vectorchuks: Itel products such as power banks, phones, ear buds, etc are super great and cost effective. I use them and I enjoy every bit of my money. This phone is another way of putting smile on people's faces by not tearing our pocket and giving us value. Itel I hail thee, more LAMANDE (power).
BlackViper: 3 Killer asteroids could strike Earth within weeks — generating a million times more energy than Hiroshima atomic bomb
Good things don’t come in threes.
Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react.
“Twenty co-orbital asteroids [space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies] of Venus are currently known,” the authors warned in the arockcalyptic study, which was published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics.”
The international research team, led by Valerio Carruba of São Paulo University in Brazil, wrote that at least three of the asteroids — 2020 SB, 524522 and 2020 CL1 — that circle the sun in tandem with our twin planet have unstable orbits that take them dangerously close to Earth, the Daily Mail reported.
If this shaky trajectory is shifted only slightly by a small gravitational change or other force, the asteroids could be set on a collision course with our planet, per the study.
“Co-orbital status protects these asteroids from close approaches to Venus, but it does not protect them from encountering Earth,” the researchers warned, according to the Daily Galaxy.
Carruba & Co. came to this conclusion by using imitation space rocks to simulate a range of possible outcomes over 36,000 years, finding that there is a sizable population of low-eccentricity asteroids — those previously thought to be harmless — that could be propelled toward Earth via gravitational shifts and other factors.
To make matters worse, the aforementioned cosmic rocks’ orbits make them almost invisible to Earthly detection devices.
While scientists at NASA and other space agencies routinely track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, the telescopes can’t spot rocks in a suborbital path with Venus due to the sun’s glare, which shields them like a cosmic cloaking device, WION reported.
Due to this interstellar blind spot, the Rubin Observatory in Chile would have only two to four weeks to spot deadly asteroids, leaving us little time if they were on a collision course.
For reference, a mission to engineer something that could deflect a killer space rock generally takes years to formulate.
“Low-e [low eccentricity] Venus co-orbitals pose a unique challenge, because of the difficulties in detecting and following these objects from Earth,” the authors wrote in their conclusion.
It would be bad news if one of these intergalactic gravelstones hit home.
Asteroids 2020 SB, 524522 and 2020 CL1 measure between 330 and 1,300 feet in diameter, making each one capable of destroying entire cities and causing massive fires and tsunamis, the Daily Mail reported.
An impact would leave a crater over two miles wide and generate 1 million times more energy than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
Unfortunately, due to the constraints of terrestrial monitoring equipment, we may have to look to the stars for a solution.
“We believe that only a dedicated observational campaign from a space-based mission near Venus could potentially map and discover all the still ‘invisible’ PHA [potentially hazardous asteroids] among Venus’ co-orbital asteroids,” the authors wrote.
However, the powers that be better hurry, as researchers predict that co-orbital asteroids’ orbits could become unpredictable in just more than 150 years — a blip in the interstellar timescale.
Those 3 co-orbital asteroids can indeed be very deadly because Venus (which is shielding the 3 asteroids) is directly NEXT to planet Earth after the planet Mercury.
It's CLEARLY the end of another major cycle in human history.
The legendary Kenyan (in the mould of the global citizen and Nigerian Godfather, Professor 'Wole Soyinka) Prof. James Ngugi wa Thiong'o has finally left the physical world.
"Weep Not, Child," "The River Between," "Petals of Blood," "Devil on the Cross," etc, are truly groundbreaking global literary works. It's refreshing to still have some of his books in my personal home library collections as well.
My deep condolences go to his immediate fam and the people of Kenya where he hails from.
Truly, I'm a hard minded lawyer, it's a good thing though.
I hope you've been fine as well.
Well, I can transition into anything. Teaching, strip dancing, Prophetess etc.
How's it going my dear Folake?
I'm doing absolutely OK right here... Thanks.
Second, I read your other post here, what is your deepest personal definition of "companionship?" Are you saying in that same post that having kids isn't a top priority for you and is ONLY secondary to "companionship?" Shouldn't companionship and having the manageable number of kids be complementary to one another?... [i.e., having 2 to 3 kids is NOT something that can't be easily handled with time management].
Third... Oh wow! "...Transition into anything?" Teaching, Prophetess, and "strip dancing."
"You're such a diva... I love that."
I'll bet my last cent that you'll make a success out of those 3 random career options (especially the last one) because they fit right into the stubborn "feminine energy."
That last "strip dancing" option would however CLEARLY enable us to know if your bums are indeed "for real" or "padded outright with the latest silicone butt lifters." Lol
Last but not least, I'll post two videos for you to access for me (before the weekend runs out) so that you can give me a feedback.
I know you're at work right now in Lagos, so, be good and talk to you later.
Klass99: How recent is that thread? I've wondered why he never engages back to explain why he disabled that feature and why he won't bring it back. I'm surprised to read that he did, I'll try and find the thread from his profile. And yes I agree that money helps a lot towards old age retirement planning.
Lol and shaking my head.
As recent as April 2025. It was a response he gave on one of his threads created in April 2025 to an NL poster. I took a screenshot of the convo as well. If I find it in my free time, I'll let you have the screenshot or lead you to the EXACT NL thread page.
Aside from my 2 posts that got deleted just earlier today by the so-called new NL AI system while trying to reply your post, this thread is indeed one of the best 15 NL threads I've ever read since 2005 as it deals with real topical issues that seem obvious BUT are often ignored or not fully dealt with until the last minute. Brilliant summations from a lot of NL posters as well.
PhysicsQED: Morocco invaded and looted Songhai because of its wealth. Are you saying that Mansa Musa, who was extremely wealthy and had a prosperous kingdom should have spent his time and wealth invading north Africa, the middle East, and the Mediterranean to acquire even more wealth, even though his nation was already very wealthy?
Instead he wanted to gain as much knowledge as he could from other Muslims, and you're calling him dumb for that?
Mansa Musa was in his mid-40s (near the end of his life) when he went on that pilgrimage and perhaps he had matured and was no longer a young warrior king type, full of war-lust and wealth-lust, but had become more interested in the acquisition of knowledge.
But who knows, maybe he still had imperial ambitions and he and his commanders thought about world conquest and talked about it, but realized that the long distance across the desert that would have to be crossed by hundreds of thousands of soldiers and carriers of supplies in order to invade and conquer these places, and the military risk (to their home base) and cost of such an expedition, and the possible disruption in profitable trade with North Africa that could follow, and the infeasibility of holding together such a far flung and diverse empire (if they did succeed in their conquests) without internal rebellions bringing down the empire, made the entire idea unworkable or pointless. Maybe they realized all of this, and settled for learning instead of engaging in additional campaigns of expansion because they thought they weren't in a position where they could really pull it off successfully.
And if Mali had gone on to become highly technologically advanced or become one of the intellectual leaders in the world, instead of declining greatly and becoming a much weaker kingdom economically, militarily, and intellectually, you wouldn't be calling him dumb today, but praising him for laying the foundations for such a society.
On the giving away of gold, I don't see what the big deal is. He had an immense amount of it, and he handed some gold dust to peasants and beggars to improve their lives. So generosity is stupidity? He was a devout Muslim, so he arranged for many mosques to be built (assuming that story is true) during his pilgrimage so that more people who believed in the same religion as himself could worship properly. But you say he should have been hiring legions of mercenaries to conquer half the world. . .and that doesn't sound like a highly implausible and unreasonable course of action to take to you? I still don't see what the motivation for that would have been.
Bump.
These historically valid key points or points of view about Mali, Songhai, the Moroccan invaders of Songhai and more are the same points of view that I share based off of my advanced knowledge of history for years now.
You are indeed very knowledgeable about world history and geopolitical dynamics.
pleep: Speaking of Songhai.... the fall of Songhai at Tondibi is probably the most shamefull battle in human history.
Morocco with 2,500 men vs shongai 9,700 infantry 12,500 cavalry.
Morocco fires a couple cannon shots... and all the niggas scatter. FML, why africa!
The Moroccans had muskets they had got from Europe and other weapons which the Songhai infantrymen and cavalry didn't have. This is how the fewer Moors (Moroccans) were able to militarily defeat the Songhai Empire in series of attacks.
Modern warfare has deemphasized having a large military to a smaller, well-armed military.
History will repeat itself if "Brown Africans" South of the Sahara don't wake up to prevent military attacks from North Africa with the support of Middle Eastern elements.
And African empires did 'expand' their empires, but just mostly not outside Africa. But...The Axumite Empire conquered lands outside Africa, like parts of Southwest Asia. The Almoravid empire conquered parts of the Iberian peninsula. And their were African kings that were kings of parts of India.
But anyways African empires DID in fact expand their empire, but just mostly outside of Africa. I mean a lot of empires didn't mostly expand outside their continent. The reason many European empires at the time were able to conquer so many lands was because again... They were industrialized. Meanwhile during Mansa Musa days Europe was a complete sh*thole.
Why didn't Alexander the Great conquer western Europe or northern Europe. He and his empire were like the strongest at the time.
Bump.
The Moroccan Muslim Almoravid Empire conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and parts of Portugal) for over 700 years till 1492 when they militarily got kicked out of Spain.
PhysicsQED: Well Mali did expand widely - within West Africa. The Malian army was still warring with surrounding peoples (such as the rebellious Gao kingdom, which they re-conquered) even while he was making his pilgrimage.
I would be interested in seeing what you think the rationale would have been for a devout Muslim leader to expand to the northeast and invade North Africa (which had a lot of Muslims) and the Middle East (which had a lot of Muslims) on his way toward world conquest, even as he was making a pilgrimage to the most important Muslim holy site and also trying to acquire more knowledge from other Muslims.
pleep: All you can do is make silly excuses, but you are missing the point.
Mansa Musa had absolute control over the price of gold in the entire know world That is the power of world domination and he squandered it.
He made his hajj with 60,000 men.... why was that not an army!
Bump.
Economic and military world domination wasn't on Mansa Musa's mind. His immediate Mali Empire and some internal rebellions was enough for him to deal with. He unfortunately didn't see the bigger picture to engage in global economic domination due to his ignorance of global geopolitical dynamics.
Its hard to read about Mansa Musa, the richest man in the time-span of human existence, without getting angry.
When this African king made his procession to Mecca he gave away so much gold that the economy of Eygpt was devastated for a decade. The value of every metal deflated as far away as Spain and the economic destruction was so severe that Musa borrowed back much of the gold he had given at extremely high interest rates to try and fix the problem.
He built a mosque on every Friday of his pilgrimage, and ladden every beggar he saw with gold powder.
This was to the same Arabs who called his people Abd (not slave of God, slave of people & God) Abd Al-Abdalluh and castrated and Molested Africans like animals for 1000's of years.
Did he not notice that the people these Arabs treated like swine were black like him?
Mansa Musa was the richest man in human existence, he had the power to control the economy of the entire known world. No black man has ever had, or ever will have that kind of power again. Mansa Musa had the power of world domination, and like a typical hood nigga, he gave it away...
Sound familiar?
Bump.
True that.
Mansa Musa definitely had a lot of gold money and is credited by valuers as the richest single individual ever, BUT he was intellectually ignorant about global international affairs and geopolitical dynamics as of the time he ruled and lived in Mali just under 700 years ago despite building some educational facilities and hiring scholars.
Klass99: I'm leaving as soon as Seun reactivates that option. The guy is too stubborn I even asked him to please deactivate my account from his end as a super moderator and he didn't which is why I am still here commenting. I have never seen this kind of stubborn human being.
Yesterday I was reading a foreign blog similar to NL (but far more civil/respectful) where users engage with each other in the comments section. One user shared this, I have five more weeks to work and then I am going to… retire. July looks like a fog bank to me. I have no idea what is going to happen or what I will do. It will be the first time in more than 40 years that I have not been working for money. I’m freaked out that I might have more than 40 years ahead of me not working for money! Words of wisdom for this transition?
He or she received 34 replies with helpful information that I learned from. It's not so much about having huge bucks to retire, it's more about finding something or anything that keeps our brains active, it's about hobbies or activities that allow for social interactions and engagement with others.
Sadly, we don't have that sort of thing in Naija for older/retired citizens so they turn to their adult children to mount pressure and in some cases emotional blackmail in a bid to solve the social isolation and loneliness they feel.
There were suggestions in that blog about volunteering at a food bank, joining a knitting class, signing up for local classes/programmes designed for senior citizens, etc. Things which made sense to do as a retiree but where you wan see that kind thing for Naija?
The last time I visited home my parents hardly went out because there was really no where to go to or a purpose for even going out like a knitting class, town hall meeting, etc. Their health challenges was likely a hindering factor too, in fact one of my siblings said there's nothing much going on in this town/city people are just growing old or dying, which was true.
Old age and retirement in Naija is rough sha. You can have shelter, food and money but a lack of social interaction and engaging activities to participate in, can still cause isolation and loneliness.
He's NOT gonna reactivate that deactivate option any time soon.
He gave one security-related reason for sustaining the deactivation button till now on one of his recent threads. Tbh, people have the prerogative to leave and that should NEVER be denied by anyone. I use IG more for high networth activities but I also like the simple interface and highly attractive light green/monocrome green colors used here.
I used to use "NigeriansInAmerica" a lot among other discussion forums (before accidentally stumbling on Nairaland in March 2005 just right after NL was launched by Seun when he was ONLY just 23 years old). I've been a member of this discussion forum for 20 years now since 2005 starting off with an older NL account which I still have before registering this current one in 2008. I know how this discusssion forum used to have a lot of Diasporan Nigerians and foreigners but many have since left. I've ONLY stayed on here since 2005 like a few of us veterans because NL is a good source of business and information-based data mining for me and I've met some of the most brilliant guys who I've networked with over the years.
Second, with reference to the rest of your insightful feedback, the REASON WHY I emphasized on having adequate funds in my case for the senior citizen years is that MONEY smoothens things out a lot! With money, you can practically go ANY where you want to go on Earth and engage in a LOT more social activities which you are indeed right about. We humans are social creatures hence, even with money, things get REALLY BORING if we don't engage in outings and socializations like you accurately stated.Money enables you to ALSO CLEARLY afford the right medications and advanced treatments for age-related ailments such as Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, High blood pressure, Prostrate inflammation, different cancer types, etc, that suddenly creep up at over 65 and exert financial and emotional pressures on everyone. Regenerative medicine and other highly effective modern treatments come to mind here BUT they require funds and some health insurance policies don't cover cancer treatments. WITHOUT good health, you can't engage in effective social interactions which off course can be further enhanced through the use of the biggest social tool and the biggest University on Earth... The Internet.
Did you know that it's the normal culture in Italy for adult children and their parents to still live together or very close to one another? So, that Idea of African children being expected to be close to their parents in old age is also unique to a LOT of cultures worldwide except the Western countries of the United States, some parts of the UK (the Manchester area where my younger biological brother has been living in for many years is still very family oriented for the native White folks there, unlike in London where folks largely keep to themselves) that came up with that concept of being "social lone rangers" from the wild decades of the 1960s till date while living on credit cards and debt-based consumption. BUT it has it's demerits too and you can't be expecting your biological children to do everything for you. Medication in old age can be very costly as well if you don't live in a country where social security exists.
Your deeper insights here on social interaction through hobbies, other activities and companionship for senior citizens are appreciated. You are a bundle of intelligence and a "solutions-based person" just like me. I detest when people complain excessively about issues when solutions are right within nearly every challenge or problem on Earth.
We'll talk later as I have some things to round off within the next 1 hour.