Well, all I can say is it’s going to be a heck of a retirement week. I don’t have a lot of time to write this blog but let me try and give you a flavour of what’s in store for Mrs Summerhouse and I. Probably the first thing to say is that on Saturday…
Retirement and cricket
While I’m on a roll with the sport in retirement blogging here’s another one as a retro retirement blog, possibly my first ever, way back in 2013 or 14, I’m not sure. I detect a somewhat more optimistic view of sport generally and cricket particularly. Hmm, not sure why I thought things were better then….
Sport in retirement blog
Sport in retirement. I don’t write many sports-related retirement blogs these days. Maybe I never did. There’s a good reason for this absence and it is that, unless I wanted to write a lot of ‘writing as therapy’ blogs, there wouldn’t be much reason to write a blog at all. Although I’m a great fan…
The Vineyard Years, A Podcast, Chapter 37: A little cheating
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:12 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSA vineyard group of one’s peers. There are many ways in which a vineyard can be taxing. Last time we examined a few. This time a completely different challenge that of appearing before one’s peers and asking for their opinion…
Retirement worries blog
Retirement worries, for better or worse? So after several retirement blogs looking on the sunny side of (retirement) life let me get back to what I’m best at – worrying negativity. That’s two separate concepts by the way, not suggesting that worrying itself is a negative exercise, if you follow my drift. Some people would…
Retirement tasks blog
Retirement tasks. I’ll start this blog by apologising to my regular readers, yes both of you, that I didn’t post this blog on Friday or maybe even Saturday for that matter. The week was full of physical endeavour and so no room for intellectual activity like blog writing. The stuff in this blog was bad…
Music in retirement blog 7
Music in retirement and a tale of two guitars (as above) . It wasn’t meant to be like this but that’s the way it was and none the worse for that. This weekend was bonkers. You know what they say about waiting an hour for a bus to come and two come along together. My…
Retirement : A Perfect Day?
Perfect retirement day. I’ve gone back eight years to November, 2014 to compare what a perfect day looked like then compared with the one I wrote about recently.There are inevitably certain similarities namely food and drink, trains and a trip out into the countryside, Yorkshire this time rather than Derbyshire. Otherwise much the same certainly…
Vineyard 88: Spring in the vineyard
Spring in the vineyard. There’s plenty going off in our own vineyard right now but let me start elsewhere entirely. I read an article recently entitled ‘Climate change: We’re making wine in Norway’. See link below. A title that grabbed my interest as you might imagine. Then the article said there might soon be 20…
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast. Chapter 36: The Curse of the Phantom Sheep
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:34 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe Vineyard Years. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more challenging along comes another hazard. In this case something that defies description or even understanding. Could they be phantom sheep that have eaten our vines or is it…