Health issues from over five years ago. I thought it might be fun to compare then with now health-wise for this retro blog. You know give us all a bit of a laugh. These were the days when diabetes was king (it has a separate category now). Nowadays I can hardly fit it in to…
Retirement health, part 7
Retirement health. If there is one thing a blog writer needs it’s a reliably repetitive event, like to do with vineyards or music or minor travel or even the blog itself. Something that recurs and therefore appropriately forms the basis of a new blog. There is only one wee caveat to this requirement (isn’t there…
Retirement blog exposed to hostile bot
My latest retro blog, this time from November, 2020. I confess I’d found it intending to post it on the Sunday (my usual retro blog posting day) just gone but that didn’t happen on account of me feeling a bit under the weather and I still do. Which is why I’m putting it out instead…
New skills in retirement
New skills in retirement. It’s ironic the day after I cancelled our October Irish trip, Ireland rises to the fore. It was as follows. I was looking through a few of my old retirement blogs and I started to read the one I’d written at the beginning of the year about my new year resolutions…
Take it easy in retirement? Fat chance
Take it easy in retirement? It’s Sunday and we’re having a quiet day (apart from watching Forest win their first Premiership game for 23 years). Much needed, the day that is and the win of course. For example, it’s between Saturday and Monday which means it’s sandwiched between my latest Folk Fiddle gig in Otley…
Vineyard 91 :The weather again
As you will know, if you’ve read these vineyard blogs before, the weather, at what we call the margins of vine growing, has featured frequently as a topic of some interest. That said I think I can honestly say, never like this. In the past we’ve had too cold, too wet, too windy, persistent frost,…
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast : Chapter 41, Plenty Happening
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:18 — 6.2MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe Vineyard years. So deeper into the season you might say, April now. It’s slow progress at least we’re moving in the right direction after the stress of sub-contracting out the pruning side of things to our gardeners. The Vineyard…
A hectic retirement blog
A hectic retirement. As somebody once said, they think it’s all over. If we were referring to the wait for international football success so it would be thanks to the women folk and England being female European football champions. England’s first international football success since 1966. Just thought I’d slip that in. And so it…
It’s that time of retirement again
It’s that time of retirement again. It’s one thing that hasn’t changed in the last eight years of retirement. In fact it hasn’t, as far as I can remember changed in the last nearly 50 years we’ve been married (Mrs Summerhouse and I, and she tells me, on reading this, that it’s only been 35…
Keighley retirement gig
Keighley retirement gig. I can’t let the moment go by unacknowledged. Time and again I’ve written in these blogs about setting myself retirement challenges as a way of keeping mentally alert and using this precious time to its best possible effect. And that’s quite a sentence to kick off with. More often than not I’ve…