I frantically dialled his mobile. “Help me! I can’t find the car!!” 
I wasn’t expecting to hear, “Well, what do you expect me to do about it?!
I expected directions, a calm voice giving me some clues …….
isn’t that what husbands are for?
Is this your worst nightmare, too?
A crowded parking lot, cars as far as the eye can see, in every direction
And, NOT A CLUE where you left yours?
Don’t you HATE it when time is against you and you can’t find your keys or your wallet!
Why does it happen? Read more…
This is not just crazy talk – I’ve seen bright, alert 100 year-olds who are still working!
And here they are.
Take a look at these lovely friends – bright eyes, alert minds, lots of laughs and knowing just how to get tourists on side.
What’s their secret? Read more…
Challenge your brain and improve your working memory!
Train Your Brain
Have you already tried these brainteasers on Twitter?
If not, try them now before looking up the answers!
1. The words below are all anagrams of other words, the initial letters of which form an anagram of another word. What is the answer?
bruise warned please listen veined trance
2. Starting with HATE, change one letter at a time until you have the word LOVE. Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word. What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
HATE …. …. ….
LOVE
3. If today is Friday, what is the day that follows the day that comes after the day that precedes the day before yesterday?
4. If you were to spell out the numbers in full, (One, Two, Three, etc), how far would you have to go until you found the letter ‘A’?
5. Another Word Ladder
Change ONE to TWO in seven steps, changing only one letter in each three-letter word.
6. When Bob is twice as old as he is now, he’ll be four times as old as he was six years ago. How old is Bob?
7. Make the following correct with one stroke of the pen: 101010 = 9.50
8. How can you combine eight 8′s to make 1000?
9. Tune up your brain! Can you find a single five-letter word which can be added to each of the following letters to form 5 six-letter words?
10. The maker doesn’t need it, the buyer doesn’t use it and the user uses it without knowing. What is it?
11. Show how one taken away from 19 can give you 20.
12. There are three light switches downstairs which light up three bulbs in the attic. How can you find out which switch lights up which bulb with only one trip upstairs?
13. A Christmas brain teaser. If snow falls from the sky at the rate of one drop of snow per second, how many drops of snow will fall over one minute?
Come on, you can do it!
Answers: (Don’t look unless you have to!)
1. The answer is ‘ANSWER’: asleep, nectar, silent, wander, envied, rubies.
2. HATE, DATE, DOTE, DOVE, LOVE or HATE, LATE, LAVE, LOVE or HATE HAVE HOVE LOVE.
3. Thursday
4. 1000: one thousand. Unless you in the UK when 101 = one hundred And one.
5. OLE, ALE, AYE, DYE, DOE, TOE, TOO, TWO
6. Bob is twelve (12)
7. 10 T0 10
8. Here’s one way but you might find more? 8+8+8+88+888=1000
9. Bangle, Tangle, Jangle, Mangle, Dangle
10. A coffin!
11. Write 19 in Roman numerals – XIX. Take I away and you are left with XX.
12. Turn on one switch and wait a minute or two. Then turn it off and switch on another light. Go upstairs and you will see one light on, one is still warm to the touch and one is still cold. Now you know which is which!
13. 61 drops of snow. We start counting from the time the first snow drop falls and the moment of time is 0 seconds. At the moment of time of 1 second, we have two drops of snow, and so on. When the moment of time is 60 seconds, we will have had 61 drops of snow.
Memory loss coming on!
One of my followers on Twitter posted this tweet and I could understand just how he felt! Sometimes life’s just like that - after a weekend partying, hitting the books for exams, going through a stressful relationship break up or just too much of everything!
I’ve seen lots of Twitter jokes about memory loss – like this one: Memory loss runs in my family – um, do I have a family? Or
When my doctor knew I had memory loss, she made me pay in advance.
But it isn’t really a joke because if your memory is being affected so much that you are forgetting things, then the what is causing the stress needs to be taken seriously.
What are the warning signs of stress? Read more…
Don’t you hate that? You are in the middle of a sales presentation, or telling a funny story and suddenly, you can’t think of what comes next! Try as you might, the mind’s gone blank and you have no idea how to finish. Read more…
Avoid multi-tasking. It leads to stress and memory loss.
For weeks you’ve been cramming for this exam and you got up early this morning to make sure that you had remembered everything. A lot hangs on this test – your promotion, for one. You can feel the tension rising but say to yourself, “It’s just exam nerves – it’s good stress”, right? Then, when you look at the first question one that you’ve been expecting, your brain goes blank, the words don’t make sense, and you can’t remember a single fact to write down. Read more…
What’s Normal and What’s Not?
Is this forgetfulness normal?
Many people over the age of 50 (and maybe even younger) experience mild forgetfulness.
Although these are a wake-up call to pay attention to your brain and memory, if the forgetfulness includes:
• Forgetting parts of an experience
• Forgetting where you park the car
• Forgetting events from the distant past
• Forgetting a person’s name, but remembering it later
Then, your memory loss is mild and would be regarded in the ‘normal’ range. It’s worrying though and, in the view of Dr. Allison Lamont, the Memory Doctor, “it’s time to take stock of your lifestyle and memory habits. Memory can be enhanced at this stage.” Read more…
Avocados are great brain food, in moderation! See more about this below.
What you eat affects how well you think.
Read more…
