This might just be one of the most difficult blogs I have ever written. Maybe. I do not use the word depression or even depressed. Depressing is OK but the first two are not. If you wish to know why this should be the case then feel free to read this very early blog, Retirement…
Category: Mental health
Resilience part 3
I’m pretty sure I’ve written about the need for resilience in retirement before. I will check but if I ever doubted it then yesterday reminded me and then some. Yesterday was my birthday, my 76th birthday as you ask and about 1.30 in the morning of this birthday I lay awake (not an uncommon event)…
Does a lot of good work for charity.
There’s one aspect of retirement that in the ten years I’ve been retired has never quite worked out for me. Before I retired and when I contemplated what my retirement might look like I was pretty certain that this activity would form a part of my retirement life. But it was not to be. True…
Before and after – again
A few weeks ago I started to write a blog entitled before and after. The idea being I would write about life before my prostate operation and then, after it. But when my operation was cancelled owing to a mysterious (and still remains so) stomach ache, the idea became rather redundant. Well never let a…
Am I an outsider as a retired person?
An outsider? There’s a word I’ve noticed has cropped up more and more frequently of late, both in written and spoken form. That word is outsider. I must admit I’ve never thought of myself in these terms even though I think some retirees come to see themselves in this way. That said I do see…
Self Esteem and Retirement, a retro blog
So self-esteem and retirement. My first retro blog for a while. This one from February, 2014. This was very much the kind of retirement blog I planned to write, i.e. one with a significant psychological content and as it applied to retirement. The further I’ve got from my retirement beginning the less the psychological content….
Retirement homecoming
A retirement homecoming blog. Oh to wrap myself in the comforting routines of home*. This after a hectic two weeks in the USA and a particularly fraught journey home which left us quite battered and bruised and which I may write about at a later date, but for now let me return to the welcome …
Sleeplesssness in Retirement : retirement advice
I dug this retirement advice blog out from my archives because sleeping has figured in a couple of blogs recently. I’ve referenced this blog before but I thought I would go back in time, to February, 2014 in fact to the original. I have to say it is a little bit weird and again very…
Retirement anxieties: better or worse?
Despite some concerns, retirement anxieties even, we invited some friends round last Wednesday night (it being the first Wednesday of the month (actually it was the second) we gathered together, as tradition dictates) and with the support of lateral Flow tests all round we decided Covid be damned. After the meal we fell to talking,…
Retirement blog: a trip to hell and back
Does being retired make a person more prone to the kind of intolerance described in this retirement blog? I suspect that getting older does help you lean in this direction. Don’t know what you think. If you’d told me that I’d be writing a retirement blog about a visit to IKEA or that Hieronymus Bosch…