Given there is a definite view of retirement, mainly from retired people themselves, that, as they get older, their life choices become restricted ( I feel the world is closing in on me as one acquaintance put it), that deliberately limiting one’s own choices is perverse, to say the least and maybe outright foolish. I…
Category: Happy retirement
Change of plan, really?
I’m not sure I dare even write this but here I go. And after all I’ve written over the last few months about wanting to return my retirement life to what I’ve persistently called ‘normal’, you might think I’ve got some damned cheek but as The Animals once sang many years ago, ‘It’s my life…
Into 2024, what’s in store?
So here we are half way through January, 2024 and how am I doing in my continuing efforts to return to my life pre all my health problems of last year? What I’m choosing to call normality. You may recall that my carefully considered retirement life was made up of a number of deliberately chosen…
2024, new start?
Well the first day of 2024, so no more 2023 which was an annus horribilis indeed (if that is how you spell it, certainly my spell checker doesn’t think so). It would, of course be foolish to think all our health problems will end with a new year. New start? No, more like setting ourselves…
More normality?
Sometimes it’s quite hard to remember what our lives used to be like before all this health business came along. But we try and recall the basics so we can use them as a yardstick against which to create what we call normality or even the new normality. There’s no doubt that our post op…
Another new year again
Another new year again. I stopped making New Year resolutions or setting goals for the coming year a while ago. And let me tell you my retirement life probably hasn’t been any worse for their absence. All I wrote this time last year in my new (then) diary was that I would just go with…
One last offer, retirement blog
One last offer? It’s been nine years since I retired (for the second and last time). But, does it never stop? And by that I mean that slight tingling of the brain whenever a small, tiny even, possibility of returning to work drops across my doorstep or pops into my email box as in this…
Retirement : Good on paper
Retirement: Good on paper. I have to admit the Saturday morning just gone I had set myself the task of writing this coming Tuesday’s Summerhouse Year’s blog and I was struggling. I was trying to avoid having to write it at the last moment, on Monday morning probably having driven back from our vineyard and…
Retirement birthday
Retirement birthday but not the one just gone. This one is from 2017 and so my latest retro retirement blog. Interesting to compare I thought. Hope you do too. i note books still figure. No surprises there then. Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs as my grandma used to say. Tomorrow I…
Retirement gardening, 6 or 7
More retirement gardening and some pictures of our garden. As I’ve said before we wouldn’t describe ourselves as keen gardeners even though gardening is reckoned to be a prime retirement activity. But, that said, we’re not without a commitment to making our small garden and deck look as nice as possible without spending heaps of…