Sometimes it’s quite hard to remember what our lives used to be like before all this health business came along. But we try and recall the basics so we can use them as a yardstick against which to create what we call normality or even the new normality. There’s no doubt that our post op… Continue reading More normality?
Category: Happy retirement
Another new year again
Another new year again. I stopped making New Year resolutions or setting goals for the coming year a while ago. And let me tell you my retirement life probably hasn’t been any worse for their absence. All I wrote this time last year in my new (then) diary was that I would just go with… Continue reading Another new year again
One last offer, retirement blog
One last offer? It’s been nine years since I retired (for the second and last time). But, does it never stop? And by that I mean that slight tingling of the brain whenever a small, tiny even, possibility of returning to work drops across my doorstep or pops into my email box as in this… Continue reading One last offer, retirement blog
Retirement : Good on paper
Retirement: Good on paper. I have to admit the Saturday morning just gone I had set myself the task of writing this coming Tuesday’s Summerhouse Year’s blog and I was struggling. I was trying to avoid having to write it at the last moment, on Monday morning probably having driven back from our vineyard and… Continue reading Retirement : Good on paper
Retirement birthday
Retirement birthday but not the one just gone. This one is from 2017 and so my latest retro retirement blog. Interesting to compare I thought. Hope you do too. i note books still figure. No surprises there then. Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs as my grandma used to say. Tomorrow I… Continue reading Retirement birthday
Retirement gardening, 6 or 7
More retirement gardening and some pictures of our garden. As I’ve said before we wouldn’t describe ourselves as keen gardeners even though gardening is reckoned to be a prime retirement activity. But, that said, we’re not without a commitment to making our small garden and deck look as nice as possible without spending heaps of… Continue reading Retirement gardening, 6 or 7
Retirement dreams
Retirement dreams. I have a dream, or rather I had one until this morning (Sunday). Then it was stepped on by an email from ‘my’ agronomist. Nothing directly to do with our current vineyard as you might have expected, but instead related to this link. Take a look. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113518385?currencyCode=GBP#/?channel=OVERSEAS I say nothing to do with… Continue reading Retirement dreams
A typical retirement week
Just another typical retirement week. Maybe yours are the same? The first thing to say is that our son went back to Australia on Tuesday although his presence lingered a while longer. I’ve written about getting back to our old comforting routines a few times recently and frankly that was never going to happen while… Continue reading A typical retirement week
Gardening in retirement, part 5. A brief look.
Gardening in retirement. I hate to say it but this week has been tricky. You’re probably sick and tired of reading my negativity particularly since we got back from our trip, but for some reason there have been a number of irritations on return and this week has continued in that vein. Ridiculous speeding fine,… Continue reading Gardening in retirement, part 5. A brief look.
Normal retirement life
Picking up the reins of normal retirement life through the haze of jet lag. I said in my last retirement blog how comforting it was to get back home to those familiar routines. And so it is but one of two things have prevented this happening in any pure and predictable way. And jet lag… Continue reading Normal retirement life