I read somewhere recently that a person should avoid making any decisions about their retirement for two years after they retire. About the same time I heard on the radio that the key to a feeling of well-being in retirement was to have a sense of purpose. While I can see the possible logic behind holding…
Category: How to have a happy retirement
What kind of retiree are you?
People don’t neatly fit into categories, human existence is too messy for that but sometimes, in order to discuss a topic, it is necessary to shovel people, maybe a little unwillingly, into a group, a category, a ‘type’. So it is with being a retired person. Yes, I know you may complain none of these…
Come on start-up boy / girl, let’s do it for the old gits
I was sitting up in bed yesterday morning and I had an idea. I often do but this one was different, I had the idea and then two magpies flew by the window, the inference was clear. This was a good idea and was bound for a great future. So there I was in bed…
Thank God it’s over, over there
This is not the blog I intended to write but I cannot let this day go by without recognition of its importance. I have never set out to be gratuitously offensive in this blog which is why the ‘c’ word doesn’t figure. If swearing is required then so be it but only if the plot…
Another emergency blog
I feel physically sick, abused even. This blog is therapy. What now? Not the energy companies again, water companies? pay day loans? insurance companies (although this is tricky as our daughter works for one)? – we got a letter from Saga (always looking after old people) saying they could reinsure for from £117, turned out…
Hairy moments in retirement
I suppose it is symptomatic of retirement that the only hairy moments in our lives are those that sprout from our noses, ears, toes, no toes are good, apparently it shows that the circulation is still functioning, a problem with diabetics whose feet can be susceptible to gangrene and amputation. But I digress. I’m writing…