Well, all I can say is it’s going to be a heck of a retirement week. I don’t have a lot of time to write this blog but let me try and give you a flavour of what’s in store for Mrs Summerhouse and I. Probably the first thing to say is that on Saturday…
Tag: writing as therapy
Retirement through thick and thin, a weekly review 5
A retirement weekly review. I‘m not sure how I’m going to start this retirement blog except to say I’m going to keep it short and to say that it’s largely ‘a writing as therapy blog’* about a very mixed week. Let me start with the positive or as positive as it gets this week. You…
Retirement blog: Mirror mirror (not) on the car
this is how Halfords treat a retired person makes me wish I wasn’t retired
Retirement blog : Trying to be in control of your retirement – again
Let me start this retirement blog by referring back to the several projects I have set up in an effort to make best use of both lockdown time specifically, and my retirement life, as a whole. Then I’ll bring you up to speed on where I’m up to with them. I will tell you now,…
Retirement blog just a dream : Part one, the finances
At what point does a dream turn into a nightmare? Or is that too dramatic, what about, at what point do you say of your dream, nah, give it up it’s just not practical / sensible? When do I move on to another more achievable dream? Those of you who have read this retirement blog…
Vineyard Years Podcast Chapter 3
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:29 — 4.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Stitcher | Blubrry | Email | RSSThis is the third chapter of The Vineyard Years Podcast and is about probably our number one enemy, namely the wind. Wind is the enemy of vines, as a fellow northern vineyard owner told me before…
Brief Retirement blog : whatever next?
We’ve certainly spent less money overall during this period of lockdown. We haven’t actually been shopping in a shop (other than my local DIY shop) for many weeks. We haven’t spent that much money on-line, apart from a few quite unusual purchases, an artist’s easel, a small greenhouse (not yet arrived), a drum set amp,…
Retirement blog : Too old to be published?
You will know, if you’ve read this retirement blog regularly over the last six and a half years, that I have ‘a thing’ about publishing a book what I have wrote (to quote Ernie Wise). Whether it’s a book of these blogs or a compilation of the nearly 70 vineyard blogs or some as yet…
Reviewing retirement from a distance
I’m writing this retirement blog at a point when we’re roughly half way through our three week Scottish trip. You might describe this as the time of maximum distance. We’re not quite at the very top but it’s close. We’re in a place called Scourie which, as hopefully you can see from the photos, is…
Bringing my retirement to heel
My retirement sometimes feels akin (nice word) to riding, sans saddle, on the back of a bucking bronco. I know that doesn’t fit with the canine ‘bringing to heel’ analogy, but it will have to do. Control the beast, I don’t even understand the ‘c’ word. The harder I try to, the crazier it seems…