What was it that ‘him’, (or her), upstairs said about ‘him’, or her, down below – that s/he makes work for idle hands? Maybe so, all I can say is that the sooner this lockdown business comes to an end, the sooner I’ll be done with all this retirement foolishness. It’s foolish in the sense…
Category: Happy retirement
Retirement blog : An ‘interesting’ week
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. So said Charles Dickens at the beginning of his novel, A Tale of Two Cities. In my case I’m referring to last week. Most of the week was full of failed challenges and technological irritations. Then, at the very last moment, 3 o’clock…
Retirement blog : Which of these two houses would you want to own?
Some small idea that’s been kicking around in the back of my mind and all it takes is some even smaller event to bring whizzing to the front. That’s what happened to me last week. We were out walking our dogs and we bumped into an architect friend also ‘walking’ his dog if buzzing…
Retirement blog : that old missing link?
How difficult can it be to come up with one new idea for 2021? I pride myself on being a creative person. But sometimes I do wonder. Those of you with good memories will remember in my retirement blog, last Tuesday, I mentioned right at the end that I had begun to wonder if, along…
Short Friday Retirement blog : Hello 2021, welcome
So here we are, the first day of a new year, 2021. Thought you’d never get here? Must be an improvement on last year, wouldn’t you think? Don’t be so foolish, there are no guarantees of anything and no point wishing for a better future. What will be, will be etc. Except there’s always that…
A short retirement blog trip down memory lane to that London
What better time to write a valedictory retirement blog to the place that is now off limits to its fans. That would be me as one of those fans and the place is London, that there London, as I’ve typically described it in these retirement blogs. Like most of the rest of us London has…
Retirement blog – another project?
In the last lockdown I tried to adopt a project-oriented mind-set to my retirement life. I’ve thought this was a useful way of thinking all through my retirement years but particularly so during these challenging times. In the last lockdown my projects took a variety of forms. I published my vineyard book both as an…
An indulgent retirement blog about my heroes
They say you should never meet your heroes. Somebody I once met told me he had sat next to Bruce Willis on a plane and had found him to be the most boring man who’d ever talked to him. There was a time when Bruce was close to being on my heroes list. I even…
Retirement blog: isn’t technology wonderful for the retired person?
Technology is wonderful, right? Hmm, sometimes. I pondered on this after struggling last Saturday to turn Mrs Summerhouse’s doodles into a Kindle book. I’ll come back to this in a moment. Just let me say in the interim, I sometimes, often at times of frustration, allow myself to wallow a little in a bit of…
Retirement blog: Mr and Mrs Summerhouse return to the pub(s)
No pub for three months and then two within 3 days. What do they say about buses? Well, apply it to pubs. Is happiness in retirement linked to the pub? You decide. We had discussed which pub would be our first visit after lockdown and appropriately it was our local here in Headingley. The second…