Last week we were out for a meal with some friends who we see irregularly on account of the fact that they often aren’t in the country. This week they were, and on this night out, he said to me, you’re out of your comfort zone, aren’t you? He would know all about being out…
Category: Happy retirement
Retirement blog : Time on your hands
There’s a rather obvious version of the above title as it applies to a retirement scenario. At its simplest it just means we have a lot of time to fill and no obvious / satisfactory way to fill it. This can mean we’re bored or, maybe, we’re relaxed depending on, what are sometimes called, your…
Retirement blog about a 60th school reunion
Apologies first of all for there being no Friday retirement blog. A technical problem prevented me posting. Very frustrating but here we are on the Tuesday. I‘m not quite sure in what order this retirement blog and the first Saturday blog will be posted. Maybe by the time I’ve finished it and the second one…
Retirement blog and our second (yes second) summerhouse
This retirement blog asks (but doesn’t answer), when does a task become a project and are projects good for retired people? I only ask this question because last Wednesday our second summerhouse came into being. I realise that this makes two summerhouses and, to be true to this blog, I should rename it the summerhouses’…
Retirement blog : More of the bad and the ugly, not sure about the good
Way back when, more or less at the time I started this retirement blog, I wrote that I would record my retirement, as it unfolded, citing the well-known film title, the good, the bad and the ugly. I realised, after a while, that this view of retirement was weighted towards the negative in a ratio…
Retirement blog about my goals
I have been racking my brains trying to remember if I’ve ever done this before. I’m usually pretty good with things that are far enough back in time, as I believe this is. It’s recent happenings I have trouble with. Like what time is it when I looked at my watch just a few seconds…
A sporting retirement?
It’s been a long time since I wrote a retirement blog about sport, something more important has always pushed it to one side. Which is pure hypocrisy really because there have been many times when sport has been the most important thing in my life both playing and watching. Now in retirement I admit there’s…
I’m not dreaming of a White Christmas even if I am retired
Yo ho ho and all that sort of thing to retired and retiring people everywhere. Is Christmas any more or less yo ho ho now I’m retired? Maybe it would be more, or is it less? if Christmas had always been a special time for me, for us, but frankly, honestly, it hasn’t been, just something…
Buying Christmas presents for the retired person
As a general rule being retired means you’re likely to be quite old, relatively speaking. As a general rule being quite old means you’ve probably got everything present-wise that you want on the grounds that, at our age, as I’ve written before, if I want something I’m not going to wait until Christmas to get…
Retirement performance profile
The above profile which is intended to help clubs decide whether a player is worth the vast sums of money they currently seem to command. It was Devised by Geir Jordet, professor in sport psychology at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, works with several top clubs across Europe – including in the UK. “The…