This is the first blog on this my new laptop. I’m not really sure why I bought another one, this one makes four and since my little literary hiccup – more of which in a moment – I couldn’t honestly say I needed another one but it happened while Mrs Summerhouse and I were buying…
Category: Creative Writing
A ghostly tale for Halloween
After last week’s moment of ,madness about returning to work, back to safer ground. Or maybe not. If I can sort out the technology this is a blog from way back, a ghost story entitled ‘Welcome on Board, Sir’ from my ‘What Lies Beneath’ collection as shown on this blog. My excuse for resurrecting this…
Give it up?
I have to confess after more than 10 years and maybe 1500 versions of this blog I’m getting a little weary of it. It’s not exactly that I can’t find anything to write about although that has become harder the more home-bound I’ve become after my health issues, but even writing one a fortnight has…
Celebrating over 1000 blogs
Celebrating over 1000 blogs. The clue, as to the topic of this blog, is in the picture above. Specifically this picture is my Christmas advert for The Oldie magazine (except it’s coming out in November, still it’s close). I place one advert a year in this magazine or any other magazine come to that, which…
Retirement writing therapy to cope with government bodies, part 3
Retirement writing therapy. It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these ‘writing as therapy’ blogs and you may feel, having read this blog, that my need for therapy is fairly insignificant given all that’s going on in the world but, trust me, I need the support that writing out my troubles has…
Retirement hobby: writing a blog
About this retirement hobby, blog writing. I wrote a retirement blog a short while ago about improving my blog readership figures. I said I’d done two things. One was to ask my IT guy for some advice. I’ll return to this strategy in a moment. I also wrote that I was going to place an…
A short Friday retirement blog: Boosting my blog readership figures
I may have mentioned in recent retirement blogs a slight concern I’ve got about the Google ranking of this same blog. I know some of you have told me not to be so silly and that Google rankings are of no importance. And of course you’re right I’m merely making yet another rod for my…
A word about the ebooks
This week a short, retro retirement blog from November, 2013. It may have some relevance to my retirement ambitions today, but more probably not. Anyway, I haven’t looked for a while but I think they’re still stashed away waiting for their moment in the sun. The part about the images is no longer true, I…
Retirement and a new me
Number 27 in my retro retirement blog series. Again back to the end of 2013 and a blog about me trying to find a new identity for myself in retirement. I always thought this was the way to a happy and fulfilling retirement and I haven’t changed my mind over the ensuing years. Read on….
Retirement blog: 900 up
Another milestone, another pat on the back from myself to myself. Well, somebody’s got to do it. I admit this one, retirement blog, number 900, is a bit vague. I’m usually quite clear when I’ve reached my centenary landmarks but this one is a little different. I know I’ve cleared the 900 mark, have done…