Life's What You Make it

Trish and Valerie are joined by Age Friendly Ambassador Francis Brennan who shares his thoughts on avoiding conflict, friendship and getting older with care and grace while continuing to welcome new experiences.

Valerie and Trish relish the opportunity to meet with new people and share the joy of taking on new challenges. They agree that chivalry must continue - manners maketh the man - and have you heard of the Feng Shui idea of a wealth bowl?

In which Trish and Valerie recall their evening at the podcast awards in Limerick, and how impressed they were but range of local, home-grown initiatives making lives better from community vegetable growing to helping older people stay safe and connected.

Valerie plans to be a reformed woman after starting reformer Pilates and Trish agrees that holding on to negativity ultimately does us more harm than good. More lessons in the key of life after fifty from Trish and Valerie.

It started during Covid and has grown into an annual event of art on the lake, Trish tells Valerie all about getting involved in the showing, sharing and selling of art while Valerie recalls a recent seaweed bath experience!

This week, Valerie tells Trish about touring Spain in a thirty year old two seater and getting clamped on the first day, despite which they agree that the best holidays involved a bit of the unexpected and off the beaten track.

Farmer, beekeeper, researcher, and educator and all around glass half full force of nature Ailbhe Gerrard is the driving force behind Brookfield Farm, a family-run enterprise near Lough Derg in North Tipperary. Sharing words of wisdom, a healthy dose of iconoclasm and plenty of fun, she is Trish and Val's guest this week,

The power of making a list, valuing your work and your worth and listening to your heart when looking at art are on the agenda today with the inimitable Trish and Val.

Among the many topics on todays menu are comte, raclette, fondu and blue - yes, it's the joy of cheese from the humble toastie to Welsh rabbit. And Trish talks about the joys of painting in the outdoors.

As the nights just begin to draw in, Trish and Val discuss the joys of night-classes - learning something new, meeting new people and, perhaps, meeting and learning the unexpected about a former partner!