Here is a sentence you won’t often read in this retirement blog – I read the weekend papers and found plenty of interest. I have written before about my frustrations with finding very little in the papers written for people like me – whoever they may be. This last weekend I found plenty. Of course…
Category: Creative Writing
Retirement blog about retirement and books and Amazon
This retirement blog suggests that, if there is a constant throughout my life, and by that I mean all through my working life and unchanged into my retirement, then it is … books. In an era where it is fashionable, and some would say, sensible, to read books on a screen in digital form, I…
Retirement blog : Does the retired person need to be creative?
A retirement blog about the role of creativity in retirement. I’ve always been fascinated by the creative process or, to put it more prosaically, having ideas. And the same holds true now I’m retired. The fact is I’ve always regarded myself as a creative kind of guy. Hence my first qualification in fine art all…
Retirement blog: celebrating the big 600
Those of you who’ve been reading this retirement blog for a while will know that I have the habit of ‘celebrating’ every hundred blogs. I’ve just passed the 600 mark (who’d have thought it?) and hence I’m repeating the ‘celebration’. In preparation I re-read the 500 blog, written almost exactly a year ago. I wondered…
Retirement blog: a new era?
I suppose you might call it that in the sense that for the first time in nearly five years I’m going to set a new target. In fact it is the original target of writing one blog a week as I believe it still says on my home page. I’m going back to my ‘once…
Retirement and yet another project
A friend recently posted a comment on my blog – could you have more hobbies / projects / challenges? I doubt it. I’m about to try and prove him wrong. It’s all to do, in an oblique way, with the old saying, if you’ve got an itch, scratch it. At least I think that’s an…
How to lead a creative retirement?
Creative retirement blogs, what are they and are they perspiration or inspiration? What keeps me going all this time (four and a half years give or take) churning them out about two a week? Having the ideas? Are they any good or simply a form of diary-keeping designed only for my own amusement and why…
500 Retirement blogs
Well, who’d have thought it? First there was 100, then 200, then 300, followed by 400 and now, good heavens, 500. Yep, 500 The Summerhouse Years blogs loosely pertaining to the subject of retirement. It’s true that not all of them are from my own fair hand, I’ve had some help from Mrs Summerhouse with…
In retirement why do I write?
I am sometimes asked why, as a retired person, I bother to write this blog. Isn’t it all too much trouble? Why don’t I just relax, take it easy and enjoy my retirement? I must admit there are occasions when I feel the same way. A week, for example, when I don’t have the foggiest…
Retirement, blog popularity and Algorithms
Those of you lucky enough to have read these retirement blogs over a period of time (a little irony there in case you missed it) will have noted an on-going theme which loosely translates into – how can I become more popular (my blog that is not me as a human being, that would be…