Brain Activity

I was listening to a Radio 4 programme the other day about us "older people" keeping the brain active to ward of the dreaded dementia.  I was half thing "yada yada ya!, same old - do more exercise, eat healthy, etc etc and then they said something new and interesting.  Apparently there is some new research (possibly German) that as you get older parts of your brain technical "die off" but they have discovered you can re grow your brain cells   by doing completely new (to you) and creative stuff outside of anything you had done in your previous adult working life and to make it something that makes you stretch yourself to feel uncomfortable..

Now that is interesting.

• I have set my target to do something creative everyday, to include to do something NEW creatively or something that is demanding and difficult for me. 
• I am going to try to learn a new fact everyday.
• We are going to work together on crosswords, polyword puzzles, or a TV quiz every week (mastermind, university challenge, type thing).

Day 3 of January 2019 - how are we doing?
We watched University Challenge - husband got 9 answers, I got 2 more, literary ones. with us even beating both teams on one answer. We are competing on "who wants to be a millionaire" - keeping scores.
I have learnt 3 facts
1. Dust blows off the Sahara desert and lands on the Amazon Basin. You can see it from space.
2. My grandson has a G instead of a C in his DNA that makes him lactose intolerant. Genetically his father is northern European and his mother Asian and that means Dad is lactose enabled due to Europeans developing a diary based diet over thousands of years but a diary diet is not in the racial makeup of people from the sub continent of India (mum).
3. The L train which featured a lot in episodes of the TV series ER (which I loved) is a shortened form of the word "elevated" train network. I always wondered why they called it that.

I have started a new creative project which I shall write about tomorrow.

OK I have set no targets for being more active. As they suggest. My husband's arthritis limits walks etc.  I think I am just going to try to be outside for at least 30 mins everyday in any weather and be doing something that leaves me a little puffed.  So far I am tidying and turning the surface of the garden flower beds which are already showing bulbs growing.