The last two blogs on this retirement site have featured ‘unsettledness’, strange word I guess but then I rather like it. It’s an accurate descriptor of how I’m currently feeling without resorting to what I would call a label. I never liked labels when I was working as a psychologist even though or perhaps because… Continue reading Unsettled Part 3. Sport!
Category: Forest
Sport in retirement blog
Sport in retirement. I don’t write many sports-related retirement blogs these days. Maybe I never did. There’s a good reason for this absence and it is that, unless I wanted to write a lot of ‘writing as therapy’ blogs, there wouldn’t be much reason to write a blog at all. Although I’m a great fan… Continue reading Sport in retirement blog
Retirement and to plan or not to plan?
Is there something about retirement that makes spontaneity more desirable? Is it true that because we have less structure (theoretically) in our retirement lives that we can afford to make impromptu decisions without any great need for a consideration of the consequences? Going on holiday would be a classic example, I guess. We can up… Continue reading Retirement and to plan or not to plan?
The transfer window and the meaning of life
From January, 2014 this retro retirement blog is a particular jumble. If I took this retirement blog as typical of my writing early in my blogging career I can only say I think I”ve improved, but I don’t think it is, so I can’t. And that’s a jumble as well. The pups were asleep on… Continue reading The transfer window and the meaning of life
And verily it did come to pass
Well don’t say I didn’t warn you. No, not about retirement. Football, silly. In my last but one Forest blog I suggested that giving Bully Davies a seven year contract was madness. A man generally regarded as abrasive, self-opinionated and Scottish (and a good Championship manager in my opinion and one blighted with a ridiculous… Continue reading And verily it did come to pass
Forest : bringing you right up to date
Last night I watched a video clip on the internet. Rare for me, take a look if you don’t believe what I’m going to write. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24624615 Big deal, you say. It was a clip on the BBC sport football site, Yes, so? It was a clip of Nottingham Forest’s owner, Fawaz Al Hasawi, talking about, among other… Continue reading Forest : bringing you right up to date
My life with the Forest: one fan’s story
I persuaded a friend to subscribe to this blog on the grounds that it was, in part, or would be, in part, about my history of following, albeit from a distance, these days, Notts Forest (a contentious title for some people, they say ‘Notts’ means Notts County, they prefer Nottingham Forest). Well I’m sorry but… Continue reading My life with the Forest: one fan’s story