Retirement pressures. First of all let me apologise for being somewhat tardy with this blog (not to mention the absence of the retro blog). As my grandma used to say, lad you’re all over the shop. Meaning you’re badly organised or something similar. Since we got back from America we have indeed been all over… Continue reading Retirement pressures
Vineyard 89: Some new arrivals and places
So to Vineyard 89. It’s been more than a month since the last vineyard blog. The main reason being we’ve been away which, if you read the rest of this blog, will be obvious. That’s why I’ve been writing about our trip to America. This trip obviously gave us plenty of opportunity to taste American… Continue reading Vineyard 89: Some new arrivals and places
Retirement life, just one week back
One week back. I have to admit that more than a week after our return from the USA I’m still searching for that comforting normality I wrote about in a previous retirement blog. Even the weekend papers, usually a solid pillar of our lives have proved just too much effort to read. In fact reading… Continue reading Retirement life, just one week back
Retro travel blog, Looking back from retirement : All come to look for America
Retro travel blog. I thought I might make one last reference to America before moving on with my life. So here is a retro blog from 2016. interesting I think. I wrote this blog quite a while ago for another blog site, an American site about retirement. Some things have changed (I’ve noted some) a… Continue reading Retro travel blog, Looking back from retirement : All come to look for America
Normal retirement life
Picking up the reins of normal retirement life through the haze of jet lag. I said in my last retirement blog how comforting it was to get back home to those familiar routines. And so it is but one of two things have prevented this happening in any pure and predictable way. And jet lag… Continue reading Normal retirement life
Retirement homecoming
A retirement homecoming blog. Oh to wrap myself in the comforting routines of home*. This after a hectic two weeks in the USA and a particularly fraught journey home which left us quite battered and bruised and which I may write about at a later date, but for now let me return to the welcome … Continue reading Retirement homecoming
Heading Home, a retirement blog
Heading home. So here we are on our way home, in the words of the song. In The Hilton Garden Inn in Denver after flying from Durango yesterday (a smooth flight this time). Mrs Summerhouse has just been out of the hotel to check our money situation. This on our dollar credit card for lack… Continue reading Heading Home, a retirement blog
Life on the road, retirement blog
Life on the road. You could say without fear of contradiction that the picture above is what this trip is all about. It’s the land we bought many years ago and have now gifted to the children. So this adventure is about the four of us making our way to this spot. We’re revisiting it,… Continue reading Life on the road, retirement blog
Retirement long haul travel blog 2
Long haul travel blog 2. Phew and double phew. You might tell from the fact that this blog is already a day late and could be more if we don’t get our internet connection here at the Air BnB sorted out, that we have been having what might be mildly called a hectic time. As… Continue reading Retirement long haul travel blog 2
Retirement long-haul travel blog
So phew, a retirement long-haul travel blog and here we are in Denver and hopefully writing the first retirement travel blog of this trip. Hopefully the first of many but so far it’s not been straightforward. The immediate problem, apart from the fact that it’s twenty past two in the morning, is that my electrical… Continue reading Retirement long-haul travel blog