A retirement out of balance. Regular readers of this retirement blog (and I know there are one or two of you) will not need telling that there are three main pillars to my retirement life – this blog, my music and our vineyard. Plus a few other bits and bobs like the dogs, reading, watching…
Category: Well being
Changing times in retirement
Changing times. I thought I would take a break from the health side of my retirement and remind myself of the other, brighter sides of my existence. And, as is usually the case, these other activities ebb and flow week by week and there have been some changes as the title of this blog implies….
Looking back from retirement
Looking back from retirement, strange business. Definitely on my road to recovery this week. I’m still finding difficult to muster any enthusiasm for writing this blog (I’m doing about one a week at the moment) but I’m managing to be a bit creative even if the blogs themselves are quite short (maybe none the worse…
Onwards in retirement
Onwards in retirement. I have no doubt that many of you will find my combination of the death of Queen Elizabeth and my colonoscopy as vaguely disrespectful or unpatriotic and for which I apologise but it’s hardly my fault that my appointment coincided with her death. After all I had my appointment booked in first…
Retirement problems now
Retirement problems. I was going to start this blog by telling you that I had ‘idly’ been looking through my past blogs looking for inspiration but that word, idly, would seem to imply I’m not busy and this would not be true. True there is nothing musical going on. The folk fiddle rehearsals start again…
retirement philosophy
Retirement philosophy? Well kind of. I can’t believe how powerfully this text (above) from my Facebook page moved me. Nearly to tears. Quite soppy really. I could say that these words represent my actual view of our life on this planet but you probably wouldn’t believe me. It’s true however. Maybe not quite the meaning…
Take it easy in retirement? Fat chance
Take it easy in retirement? It’s Sunday and we’re having a quiet day (apart from watching Forest win their first Premiership game for 23 years). Much needed, the day that is and the win of course. For example, it’s between Saturday and Monday which means it’s sandwiched between my latest Folk Fiddle gig in Otley…
It’s that time of retirement again
It’s that time of retirement again. It’s one thing that hasn’t changed in the last eight years of retirement. In fact it hasn’t, as far as I can remember changed in the last nearly 50 years we’ve been married (Mrs Summerhouse and I, and she tells me, on reading this, that it’s only been 35…
Keighley retirement gig
Keighley retirement gig. I can’t let the moment go by unacknowledged. Time and again I’ve written in these blogs about setting myself retirement challenges as a way of keeping mentally alert and using this precious time to its best possible effect. And that’s quite a sentence to kick off with. More often than not I’ve…
Self-esteem, version 6?
Over the years I have been writing this blog the topic of self-esteem has figured quite often. The explanation for self-esteem’s frequent appearance is quite simple, it is, in my opinion, an important aspect of retirement. That view hasn’t diminished as I’ve become more retired, in fact it might even have increased. Nor sure but…