You have probably been wondering about how my type 2 diabetes review went. I know I have. How do you interpret a non-response? When the nurse says she will call you with the results on Thursday and she doesn’t do that, do you take that as a no news is good news response or do… Continue reading Retirement health : Keep on Trucking?
Happy birthday, pups : AKA Should you get a dog when you retire?
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday dear puppies (if that is what you still are now you are one year old), happy birthday to you. Yes, today is the pup’s birthday which means we’ve had them for six weeks less than one year. As we took them home when they were six weeks old. Not… Continue reading Happy birthday, pups : AKA Should you get a dog when you retire?
Retirement and Motorway Madness?
I mean obviously I’m not losing my mind in retirement but I have to say I never realised a car needed an aerial to function but it is clearly the case because the day after losing the aerial in the car wash the same car broke down (I just can’t go on, it’s too hot,… Continue reading Retirement and Motorway Madness?
What will your retirement really be like?
A recent piece of research commissioned by The Skipton Building Society http://ow.ly/zXGyC suggested that the majority of British workers viewed retirement as a fundamentally positive experience. It is not clear from the report how many of the 2000 respondents are already retired rather than anticipating retirement. I suspect from the responses that most of the sample… Continue reading What will your retirement really be like?
Another balls up
Another blog in the series about cognitive decline in retirement. OK, agreed, getting out of the car wash while it was mid cycle is up there with the things idiots do but this episode also deserves some consideration for ‘most stupid’ prize. It also is worthy of the prize for shortest lived doggy toy. It… Continue reading Another balls up
Vineyard 16 : we really do have grapes now
Just sneak this in as my July vineyard blog. Hence the short period between this and my last blog. So more on my on-going, vine-related, retirement adventures. The first thing to say, right up front, is that I’ve been talking bollocks. While this may come as no surprise to you it has to me. Simply… Continue reading Vineyard 16 : we really do have grapes now
The strange case of the missing aerial
I had worried that I might run out of things to write about as my retirement settled into more predictable patterns and routines. I need not have worried, not so far at least. There’s always stuff going on particularly now I have started to focus on what appears at times to be encroaching senility. Certainly… Continue reading The strange case of the missing aerial
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… Continue reading What kind of retiree are you?
Retirement Groups and the after-life
I had intended to post a more serious blog today but, because we’ve been working in the vineyard, I haven’t had time to finish it so here is a slightly less serious effort. I’ll post the serious one next time. Excuse the title but this was the ‘big one’ or so I was told. Yes… Continue reading Retirement Groups and the after-life
Message from New Zealand : who needs enemies with …
I was skyping a friend in New Zealand, never let it be said that, in retirement, I don’t keep up with technology. The fact that it has taken me this long to try out this form of newness might belie that statement but, here I was this morning, skyping with the best of them. It… Continue reading Message from New Zealand : who needs enemies with …