How to prolong your life

I read somewhere that there is a method of finding out how long you have left to live. I think it was the website of the British Heart Foundation.

(I was visiting the site as I did have to call out the local firemen once a couple of years ago. But refused the ambulance as it was time for the football results)

All you need to do is:
Raise one leg from the ground with the knee bent and (standing on the other leg) close your eyes. Hold the position for as long as you can and time how long it lasted.

Ideally you, the reader, should now stand up and try it .........to fully understand what follows.

My first attempts were unrecordable. I didn't have time to check how long I lasted in that position.
Instantaneous collapse forced me to open my eyes. Estimated period 0.5 seconds. I was thinking that I didn't have a future.

Apparently with a time of 30 seconds you have a great future.

Anyway in a week I have built up to 3 seconds and so already have 600% more life left in me than last week.
I am going to cut out regular walks and practice the new routine for even better results.

And a longer life?

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Memory update

                                    

Today, 28th August, 2015
I find that the names of the flowers in the garden are an acid test - which can leave a nasty space in your head sometimes. I often cannot recall the name of a particular flower: its ordinary name, not the Latin one - which I would not have known.

However, I can recover the name eventually if I wait long enough and do not hassle myself about it. There is a really tall flower at the top of the garden, it grows higher than the 1.5 metre wall just behind it. Today is Friday 28th August and its name is .....(cannot recall)...........

I will write its name here in red.....HOLLYHOCK..and also the date when I recall it ..SAME DAY, 30 MINUTES LATER..........
(It's something like 'Longjohn' ...NO, NO, NO IT'S HOLLYHOCK

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