I really don’t know how to start this blog. I know how I intended to start it and what I planned to write about. This was easy I intended to write about the mysterious Guardian course I referred to in a previous blog but that was before our journey back to Leeds on Sunday. We’d… Continue reading Retirement, is it a life-changing experience?
Category: How to have a happy retirement
Have a creative retirement …
This was the headline for an AOL article that popped up on my browser a couple of weeks ago. It intrigued me because ‘being creative’ is one of those key retirement values like the one about life-long learning that I referred to recently. It was one of my most important values when I was working… Continue reading Have a creative retirement …
Retirement, friends and doing no good
My grandma had an expression, she had lots of them. She used to say ‘I can’t do right for doing wrong’. That’s a bit how I’m feeling at the moment. Last night we had some friends round for a meal, nothing wrong with that you say. True, but the circumstances were somewhat unusual. Without… Continue reading Retirement, friends and doing no good
Retirement, the D word and keeping moving
When you’re retired you notice these things. I keep hearing ‘adverts’ on the radio about older people’s health. The importance of having your flu jab if you’re over 60 or have diabetes (both apply to yours truly), going to your pharmacist if you’re over 60 and have a cold or cough (because when you’re old… Continue reading Retirement, the D word and keeping moving
Retirement and living to 100, it’s not enough
As ever, on the look-out in the media for retirement-related articles, I came across one on the BBC website Does living to 100 mean we’ll work for ever? There is a problem with articles about how we’ll pay for our retirement if we retire at 60 with 40 years of retirement. Quite a change from… Continue reading Retirement and living to 100, it’s not enough
After more than 3 years have I finally accepted that I’m retired?
I’m just wondering. The question in the title was brought about by a rather strange event / coincidence / portent, call it what you will, which happened to me last week. Let me explain. We were driving down the M1 to the Derbyshire cottage and stopped, as is our habit, at the services (Woodall as above)… Continue reading After more than 3 years have I finally accepted that I’m retired?
Retirement is it the new mid-life crisis?
If we really are living as long as all the media says we are then the question in the title makes a certain kind of sense. If, in ye olden days, a mid-life crisis started about 40, not quite mid-life when we were dying, on average, about 70 then, but close enough. As we’re now… Continue reading Retirement is it the new mid-life crisis?
Want to age well – how about never retiring?
Both Mrs Summerhouse and I have turned down opportunities to work since we retired. And I mean work as in actually getting paid for it. My ‘refusal’ was a couple of years ago after making a partial come back and Mrs SH’s was very recently. She had been asked by an ex-boss to go into… Continue reading Want to age well – how about never retiring?
Retirement and moving house – not ours
I do sometimes wonder what aspect of retirement I will write about in the next blog and then, wonder no longer, because out of the wide blue yonder comes an area of my life if not begging then politely asking to be written about. Hence this Wednesday along came the topic of this blog, I’ve… Continue reading Retirement and moving house – not ours
Retirement : have I learnt anything in three years?
About three years ago, as I contemplated what my retirement life might be like, one of the goals I set myself and failed to achieve (there have been a number) was to listen to Radio 4. Given that I would have more time to kick back and relax I thought listening to ‘talking radio’ would… Continue reading Retirement : have I learnt anything in three years?