For some people retirement is about joining things, other people in groups that is. In about June of last year we joined the Mercian Vineyard Association, (MVA) a regional section of the United Kingdom Vineyards Association (UKVA) and currently the one that includes Yorkshire. Ignoring the Marxist line – I wouldn’t want to belong to…
Ghost stories
You can’t say you don’t get variety on this blog. Today I’ve posted a new ghost story called The Thirteenth Hole. It is the second of the series of stories titled That Which Lies Beneath. Unsurprisingly it’s about golf and it is a mind game. There’s a blog on here that sums up my experience…
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…
The ghosts of retirement
‘Spine Chilling DVDs – Classic Ghost stories; The Quatermass Collection: Dead of Night’ and one I’d never heard of, ‘Robin Redbreast’. All reissued BBC programmes promising ‘ghostly nights in’. Set me thinking. Nothing major just that I like ghost stories which is why I set out to write a number of them a few years…
Retirement and Depression : How to respond
In writing about retirement in The Summerhouse Years.com I had always intended that this blog should be a combination of the amusant and the serieux, not to mention the pretentious. You know the way life is. This blog is intended as a serious one. My hope is that it may be helpful. It is about…
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…
More information from our friends in China about their retirement adventures
3 more posts from our friends, I’ve put them in the ‘Ebook’ under, you’ve guessed it, more adventures
Vineyard 6 : In retirement we have grapes
21 of them on 3 vines. OK 3 out of 400 isn’t a lot but we hadn’t expected any, so… Allan (another member of our fledgling Yorkshire Vineyard association and a retired person like me) had grapes on his vines and we had planted at the same time but although his vineyard is nearish to…
Ghost story number 1 : Returned without prejudice
Each month as a way of trying something different I will publish a ghost story. They will be available as an Ebook. This first story is about a man who went to a supermarket and found an aisle that sold items he hadn’t expected to find, items that were to have unhappy consequences.
Forest : bringing you right up to date
Last night I watched a video clip on the internet. Rare for me, take a look if you don’t believe what I’m going to write. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24624615 Big deal, you say. It was a clip on the BBC sport football site, Yes, so? It was a clip of Nottingham Forest’s owner, Fawaz Al Hasawi, talking about, among other…