Retirement gardening. I’ve written before in these retirement blogs how I expected my retirement to constitute the following activities – long haul travel, golf, photography and probably gardening. For the first time in the eight years that we have been retired I was able recently to write about our plans to fly to America. Golf…
A perfect retirement day?
A perfect retirement day? Well for me at least. If I brainstormed what such a day might look like, it would probably include some or all of the following. First up we would probably be somewhere different and of course in a place we like. Then we’d have the following activities – trains, souvenirs, old…
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast, Chapter 35: A New Arrival
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:46 — 5.8MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe vineyard years chapter 35. bringing you up to date with our ornithological adventures among other things.
Retirement travels (long haul)
It’s been a long time since I wrote about long-haul retirement travels. All to do with the dogs you will remember. I’m determined to continue looking on the bright side in these blogs although it would be all too easy to focus on the medical side of my life especially after a Monday morning like…
Have I lost my retirement tribe?
Retirement tribe. I chose this retro retirement blog more or less at random as I was short of time on Sunday having returned from working hard at the vineyard. It seemed very relevant as a topic back in 2014. Not sure about now. I’ll read it carefully and decide. If you’ve read other blogs on…
Retirement pleasures in musical form
So retirement pleasures. I promised in my last blog, which was a tad miserable, that I would write something more on the cheerful side this time. Well here it is, as cheerful as I can be. It was harder to write and it’s shorter than the miserable one. What does this tell you about my…
Retirement difficulties, 2 or 3
Retirement difficulties. Have you ever felt battered and bruised by the new week and you look at your watch and it’s only ten o’clock on a Monday morning? No? Well I have, this one in fact. Let me share it with you and then I promise I’ll write something more cheerful next time. Honest. The…
Retirement stress revisited and small business update
Retirement stress revisited. Retro retirement blog from 2017 after missing last Sunday.I’m revisiting this one to remind myself that although life feels fairly stressful right now, things were much worse five years ago. Let’s hope posting it provides the comfort I’m hoping for. We haven’t given up yet but, by thunder, it’s close. The last…
Retirement weather
Retirement weather, a changeable topic. Much under-rated as a retirement topic is the weather in the UK. Last week we were working in the vineyard in our T shirts and vaguely thinking about complaining because it was too hot. Ha. Thursday morning (only yesterday to you, today to me) we wake up to the proverbial…
The Vineyard Years Podcast, Chapter 34: Bits and Bobs
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:33 — 6.5MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe Vineyard Years podcast. A generally positive of life in the vineyard at this time of year and a few other digressions to fill in the picture of what’s happening up there, for example the generator challenges and then fertilisers…