Covid aftermath. All I really want after my bout of Covid is to get back to normal. It’s great that life has been going on in my absence. I might be sleeping a disproportionate amount but the scammers of the world are still working hard. What do they say, no rest for the wicked? How…
Covid in retirement
Covid in retirement. Did you miss me? Did you wonder where I’d gone, why there hadn’t been a retirement blog on Tuesday for the first time in nine years, in over a thousand blogs? You didn’t? Well I’ll tell you anyway because the answer is relatively straight-forward. It’s the dreaded C word. Yes Covid, after…
Making music in retirement
Making music in retirement once more. In an effort to change the tone of this week from grindingly difficult to something more positive, i.e. from hospital visits and work in the vineyard on the bloody netting, I decided to focus on an another aspect of my retirement life, namely my music. If I had thought…
Onwards in retirement
Onwards in retirement. I have no doubt that many of you will find my combination of the death of Queen Elizabeth and my colonoscopy as vaguely disrespectful or unpatriotic and for which I apologise but it’s hardly my fault that my appointment coincided with her death. After all I had my appointment booked in first…
Retro blog: Bonus blog with art photos
Retro blog. Way back in time to the very beginning of this retirement blog, 2013 in fact. The subject remains topical though. One of the first of Mrs Summerhouse’s exhibitions (just plain ‘my wife’ at this point). Topical because she has an exhibition going on right now at our local Heart centre. She’s just gone…
Vineyard 92: Netting, is there a worse job?
Vineyard 92. Last week I wrote in my diary that re-netting the vines was probably the worst, make that definitely the worst, job in the vineyard and, given all the other tasks – pruning, de-leafing, fertilising, spraying and so on, that’s quite a bold statement. But after two days of struggling to move it from…
Retirement problems now
Retirement problems. I was going to start this blog by telling you that I had ‘idly’ been looking through my past blogs looking for inspiration but that word, idly, would seem to imply I’m not busy and this would not be true. True there is nothing musical going on. The folk fiddle rehearsals start again…
retirement philosophy
Retirement philosophy? Well kind of. I can’t believe how powerfully this text (above) from my Facebook page moved me. Nearly to tears. Quite soppy really. I could say that these words represent my actual view of our life on this planet but you probably wouldn’t believe me. It’s true however. Maybe not quite the meaning…
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast. Chapter 42: We’re having a heat wave
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:51 — 6.8MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe vineyard years, chapter 42. More fun and games with our North Yorkshire weather. Although I suppose it could have been worse.
Retirement ideas, still thinking
Retirement ideas. So one thing is absolutely clear, no more health-related retirement blogs, at least not unless something very good or very bad happens. There that really is clear. Only one small problem then what shall I write about? Not so easy. As per usual when I’m stuck I often read the Sunday papers (in…