Retirement blog. As I’m performing in another Folk fiddle gig today in Keighley this time, I thought it might be opportune to look back a few years to my early days of musical ambitions. Ireland in this case. You might say I’ve come a long way in three years given gigs are almost common these… Continue reading Retirement blog and Celtic music
Retirement travels and travails
Retirement travels and travails. Way back in the mists of time. In my teaching days in fact when we went on our summer holidays we were confined to the actual school summer holidays along with many others. True it’s been quite a while since we operated under such restrictions, educational psychologists could pretty much take… Continue reading Retirement travels and travails
Retirement : Good on paper
Retirement: Good on paper. I have to admit the Saturday morning just gone I had set myself the task of writing this coming Tuesday’s Summerhouse Year’s blog and I was struggling. I was trying to avoid having to write it at the last moment, on Monday morning probably having driven back from our vineyard and… Continue reading Retirement : Good on paper
Global Warming and retirement
Global warming and retirement. It really made me laugh and that’s rare and, in the case of global warming not really to be laughed at, but bear with me. Last week was hot and that’s actually quite rare but the thing was we were completely debilitated by it. On Monday and Tuesday, other than an… Continue reading Global Warming and retirement
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast, Chapter 40: How many pheasants can a pheasant plucker pluck, etc.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:18 — 11.6MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe Vineyard Years, Chapter 40. So many chapters and so many different challenges although to be fair this one is about birds again. More other people’s problems this time.
Retirement health. Part 4 (at least)
Retirement health. A BBC article on my phone this morning was about Lenny Henry – ‘I tried to moonwalk and snapped a tendon in my ankle’. Not exactly the same as my injury but close enough to my Achilles heel damage. The one noticeable difference is that he knew exactly how his injury had happened,… Continue reading Retirement health. Part 4 (at least)
Retirement birthday
Retirement birthday but not the one just gone. This one is from 2017 and so my latest retro retirement blog. Interesting to compare I thought. Hope you do too. i note books still figure. No surprises there then. Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs as my grandma used to say. Tomorrow I… Continue reading Retirement birthday
Vineyard 90: A Busy Time of Year
So Vineyard 90 and once again I can write that there’s plenty going on and across the whole spectrum of vineyard activities. From putting finishing touches to our latest production to the very beginning of the process, in other words planting our new arrivals, to which I referred in my last vineyard blog. Perversely I’ll… Continue reading Vineyard 90: A Busy Time of Year
Musical retirement challenges again, blog 2
Phew once more. Musical retirement challenges again. Quite a weekend just gone on the music front. Not quite in a planned way and once again I’m left wondering is there really any point in trying to plan one’s retirement. It really can seem like trying to pin the proverbial bar of soap / jelly to… Continue reading Musical retirement challenges again, blog 2
Retirement : A day on the dark side?
Somewhat late a retro blog from February 2014 again. This blog describes quite well ‘where I was at’ way back then. Still looking for a group to join, trying to find my tribe as I thought of it all that time ago. Suffice it to say the group here was not that tribe. In fact… Continue reading Retirement : A day on the dark side?