Category: How to have a happy retirement

Retirement blog: Learn something new

Michael Mosley (above) is an author and a doctor and somebody I usually take the time to read. The reason being he had a profound effect on my approach to dealing with my diabetes. He wrote a book that eschewed (nice word) the traditional thinking on diabetes. The one based on reducing one’s carbohydrate intake.… Continue reading Retirement blog: Learn something new

Retirement blog: Pay attention to your roots

Derbyshire, Wingfield Station. Photo by Steven Lee

Last week I managed to quite overwhelm myself thinking about the Colorado cabin project. I have given you, my readers, a flavour of the complexities of getting this scheme hopefully off the ground and I think I may have mentioned it’s taking a toll on my mental health. Not in any serious way but just… Continue reading Retirement blog: Pay attention to your roots

Retirement blog: my projects are all off the rails

3D rendering of a forming puzzle with the word Project

I take a nervous peep at the pages at the end of my diary. That’s where I’ve written my ‘projects for 2021’. Regular readers of this retirement blog will no doubt remember that projects have been a strong theme of my retirement years. You might think that, in lockdown, they would go well, on the… Continue reading Retirement blog: my projects are all off the rails

A short Friday Retirement blog : balancing the old with the new in retirement and lockdown

You might call it a Sunday when the old met the new. The old in this case was the rare sight of a top FA Cup game on BBC – Manchester United against Liverpool. Just like the old days. The new was Ian Wright looking like an over-ripe banana in what I suppose was meant… Continue reading A short Friday Retirement blog : balancing the old with the new in retirement and lockdown

Retirement blog: do we need blue sky thinking to get the best out of retirement?

About a year and a half ago I wrote a retirement blog the title of which was, does the retired person need to be creative? Self-explanatory vis a vis the title I think. I haven’t read it through yet so I don’t know whether I made a convincing case or failed miserably. Maybe before I… Continue reading Retirement blog: do we need blue sky thinking to get the best out of retirement?

Retirement blog about freedom and life on the road

What better time to write a retirement blog about life on the road than at a time when we’re not supposed to travel anywhere. At least not in any pleasurable way. The idea of life on the road has always had a vaguely pleasure-oriented feel to it. To me it’s the, sell up all worldly… Continue reading Retirement blog about freedom and life on the road

Retirement blog about not getting too carried away with being positive

Just a quick caveat / follow-up to Tuesday’s retirement blog. I suppose you could say it’s a slightly cautionary tale in case a person became a little too smug about this taking control / making the best of a bad job, business. A little finger-wagging you might say (as above). Perhaps I made it all… Continue reading Retirement blog about not getting too carried away with being positive

A very short retirement blog about an old barn (possibly) recycled?

There is no doubt, in my mind at least, that a retired person needs his or her projects. I’d even go as far as to say that the key to a happy retirement is or are, ‘projects’. Of course the doubters among you might say projects are just a deceit intended to make us believe… Continue reading A very short retirement blog about an old barn (possibly) recycled?

Retirement blog : Looking for that lost masterpiece

This week I had the kind of email I had been expecting from all my on-line orders. Something along the lines of, awfully sorry you can’t have your (object of choice) even though you’ve probably paid for it, because this pandemic business has made filling your order impossible. The reality is that this, so far… Continue reading Retirement blog : Looking for that lost masterpiece

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