Retro retirement blog number 15 from originally 2013. A day later than usual. Apologies. I went for a drink with an ex colleague last night – retirement increases the number of ex-colleagues at a stroke. I mention this because it’s unusual in a number of ways – this particular colleague and I don’t usually go…
Category: Creative Writing
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…
Retirement blog : The big 800
Well it’s that time again. Comes around quickly doesn’t it? I’m speaking of my 800th retirement blog. As you would predict after 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700, comes yes, that’s right 800, blogs. Most of them written by me. Who would have thought it? I’d like to get to 1,000 and then…
Retirement: a time to do things differently?
At £3.20 for less and less quantity-wise, it’s just as well The Guardian remains high, quality-wise. For example a nice article on Saturday entitled ‘Switch it up’ with the sub-title, ‘Nothing is the way it used to be. So what better time to reset and do things differently… 21 thinkers and dreamers share their radical…
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,…
Ramp up my retirement blog
Conjugate the verb to ramp up. I ramp up; you ramp up, he, she, it ramps up; we ramp up: the bloody government says it’s ramping everything up (but isn’t really). Even Mrs Summerhouse, as I mentioned in my last blog, is ramping up, in her case, her morning prayers. So I thought I’d better…
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…
Retirement blog : 700 up
I noticed when I re-read previous ‘centenary’ blogs that I asked the question – what’s changed since the last one? The answer previously was simple enough, not much. I’m not so sure that this would be quite the same answer this time around. For one thing I seem a bit more at peace with this…
The Summerhouse Years’s role as a retirement influencer
I’ve said before that I’ve no idea what a blog is going to be about until it’s written. Never more true than this blog. I’ve often thought, there’s no way there’s a 1000 word blog in this topic. Again, never more true than of this blog. The small germ of an idea that I have…
Retirement blog – but what to write about?
I have to admit just recently I’ve been finding it difficult to have ideas for writing this retirement blog. Maybe, after six years and approaching 700 blogs, it’s only to be expected. But if you’ve been reading my recent blogs you’ll know I’ve been somewhat under the weather. And I only mention this because, when…