I want to write a blog about my career as a sports psychologist. It shouldn’t take long because I haven’t had one – with one or two semi notable exceptions. I had a friend, Richard Butler, who is still a friend, in fact we’re going round to his and his partner’s place this very evening.… Continue reading Looking back from retirement
There’s a second hand bookshop in Kirkstall which a retired person may frequent
I wrote recently in my blog about our financial challenges, if that be the word. These ‘difficulties’ led to a realisation – we were quite poor. In turn that we were going to be unable to travel to far distant lands on a regular basis and do generally exotic (i.e. expensive) things like build a… Continue reading There’s a second hand bookshop in Kirkstall which a retired person may frequent
Vineyard 13 : It’s all kicking off
I didn’t get round to publishing this retirement / vineyard blog last week as planned, other blogs took priority. So now I’m publishing it I’ve added some bits – more de-budding, visiting another colleague’s vineyard to buy willows, planting willows and now some more vines – to the original blog rather than rewrite the whole… Continue reading Vineyard 13 : It’s all kicking off
Bonus Blog : Financial Report, Part 2
If this blog makes me feel better, then writing as therapy really does have something going for it. I’ll let you know if it works. On with the story. You know in some ways retirement is much like the rest of life only maybe a bit more so. Every time I bury my head in… Continue reading Bonus Blog : Financial Report, Part 2
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… Continue reading Come on start-up boy / girl, let’s do it for the old gits
Ghost Story : The house that wouldn’t let go
This is number 6 in my series of ghost stories. After the rather exotic setting of a cathedral last time I wanted a more ordinary setting for this story and what could be more ordinary than an ordinary house in an ordinary street. Just like the one I live in! To read the story go to… Continue reading Ghost Story : The house that wouldn’t let go
And verily it did come to pass
Well don’t say I didn’t warn you. No, not about retirement. Football, silly. In my last but one Forest blog I suggested that giving Bully Davies a seven year contract was madness. A man generally regarded as abrasive, self-opinionated and Scottish (and a good Championship manager in my opinion and one blighted with a ridiculous… Continue reading And verily it did come to pass
Self Esteem : Water, water everywhere and Chinese cooking
One way to lower your self-esteem is to have a list, actual or mental, of things you really should do but you aren’t doing them. One way to raise self-esteem is to produce your list in written form and work through it. Simple enough. You may be one of those relatively rare people whose self-esteem… Continue reading Self Esteem : Water, water everywhere and Chinese cooking
Time to let Mr Angry out of his box – again
How very, very sad. Once again I have to say that this is not the blog I intended to publish but I’ve just watched (last night) the local news. A mistake some would say. What does this have to do with a retirement blog? Well I think it is something to do with having respect… Continue reading Time to let Mr Angry out of his box – again
New la(m)ps for old: a lesson in anger and frustration
Build it and they will come – and they have. The good, the bad and the ugly. They have come but they are by no means the people you want to come. So far in about 6 weeks Akismet tells me, and I have no reason to doubt them, that well over 2000 message spam messages… Continue reading New la(m)ps for old: a lesson in anger and frustration