I’ve fallen a bit behind with posting about our friends in China. One of their posts got so much in the way of spam comments I had to take it off the blog and this meant my additions got out of whack. But I’ve just received this blog and thought it was so interesting that…
Retirement and The Ashes
Just had Matt Prior on the radio talking about fight and passion. Brilliant, did we need to wait until now to zero in on such basic concepts? This is not why I retired. I do not believe there is a more miserably vicarious sporting experience than that made available to the English cricket fan when…
In retirement I spit on sport
Retirement brings many things – a respect from one’s children for a career well-spent maybe or perhaps just general all round admiration? Well, no, at least not right now. After the second day of the first Ashes test match my daughter sent me a text saying ‘thank you for ruining my life’. I’d introduced her…
Vineyard 7 : Just one of the gang, at last?
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