Well it’s not going away is it? As the late Miles Kington might have said in his Franglais, le merde is definitely frapping le ventilateur. I’ve pretty much avoided writing in this retirement blog about the c word but it’s quite hard to ignore right now. Especially if you read the news on your phone…
Category: Health
Retirement blog : the perfect storm in the middle of the night
After a couple of mushy retirement blogs recently I thought you might be ready for a blog laced with a little more realism. Realism that is about the hazards of getting on a bit age-wise with particular reference to our health. Prompted today by an email from my chum in OZ and his cancer treatment not…
Retirement blog: short Friday blog about the c word
It had to happen I suppose. The ‘it’ being me writing a blog about the virus. Typically this would have been computer related but not today and in the past, the very distant past, Corona would have been a fizzy drink. Life has moved on and not entirely for the better. This was not the…
Retirement blog about my health issues
I must admit I’ve been delaying writing this retirement blog until I had clear news of my health. Several months ago I wrote a retirement blog about visiting a doctor in Ireland. I might almost say it’s quicker to drive to Holyhead, take the ferry to Dublin and drive to the West coast of Ireland…
Retirement blog : a short Friday blog about an experiment in positive reframing
Mrs Summerhouse and I have often debated, as we contemplate our golden future together, what’s best for us. I mean this in terms of our joint mental and physical health. The debate about our health, mental and physical, has centred around that old question – is it better that we both go bonkers / senile…
Retirement blog about health issues on holiday
I know I need to stop it with all this retirement blogs about ‘Ireland is magical and mysterious’ stuff, and I will. But, I will just say this before moving on. Yesterday I went for my third visit in three years to the doctor’s surgery in Dingle. Some would say that’s unusual. Maybe even careless…
Retirement blog about keeping active
Trying to write a retirement blog about cheerful, positive things by reading through the weekend’s newspaper for ideas? Forget it. Gawd blimey, what a trial. I don’t just mean retirement-related positiveness, I mean the whole world is just one bad news story after another. Quite depressing it was, if I believed in such things. I…
Retirement and nobody knows anything
Before I retired I worked as an educational psychologist in schools. Contrary to popular opinion I didn’t work directly with the students but rather with the adults who worked with them either in a support capacity or as their teacher or parent. There weren’t enough EPs to work with the students even if that had…
Retirement and fitness (lack of)
Let me say right away, the title, in terms of my retirement, should probably, over the last couple of years, read retirement and an absence of physical fitness. In some ways the fates have conspired against me in the sense that apparently diabetes contributes to a certain muscle wastage if that’s a word and add…
Retirement and a different kind of goal-setting
Is it inevitable that as one gets on a bit, one’s ambitions change? I suppose so. In my last blog I wrote about goal-setting at the beginning of the year and I described a few of those goals – simplifying our lives in retirement, closing down the business, that sort of thing, sensible life-enhancing goals….