"You must have a look at my big shaking-machine"

I’m in England, spending a week in the company of my mother-in-law and mother; women with a mean age of 82, who have stared down the defeats of life but still remain, after all is said and done, resolutely inclined to Movement and Battling On.

On Movement:

“You must have a look at my big shaking-machine,” my mother-in-law says, parking the car outside her home with indescribable Formula One panache.