Retirement life complexity, like a jigsaw, but that doesn’t fit together, unlike the above image. Gosh golly there are times when this retirement blog is hard to write. I’m not sure whether this is because I feel I have nothing to write about (this at a time when our lives have never been busier) or…
Vineyard 87: very nearly Spring again
It really does feel like Spring in the vineyard because we’ve had a warm and dry spell even though it’s only March. Which is nice but when it comes to ideal conditions for the vines at this time of year, then this very dry spell probably isn’t, ideal that is. We haven’t been up to…
Retirement and levelling up
What is retirement and levelling up exactly? I will try and explain/ We’ve not been down to my hometown in Derbyshire for about 6 weeks mainly because they have been digging up the street and parking, which is usually a problem, has been impossible, or so reports from my neighbour have informed me. It (the…
Retirement and St Patrick’s night gig
Retirement and St Patrick’s night gig story. I’m writing this on Thursday morning and I have to say right now, I’m nervous. Why should a retired man be nervous on a Thursday morning you ask? Well broadly it’s to do with this retirement business of setting myself challenges in order to convince myself I’m still…
The Vineyard Years. Chapter 33: Things are growing
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 7:47 — 5.8MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe vineyard years. Every year at this time hope springs eternal. Past failures are forgotten and fresh optimism raises its head in the form of new buds. Are there enough buds or even too many?
Retirement and legacies 2
So retirement and legacies. I know I suggested in a recent blog that I had written enough about friendships for now, but I’ll just say one more thing. To misquote Oscar Wilde, if there’ one thing worse than a friend who doesn’t listen it’s a friend who does listen and then quotes back to you…
Retirement and old friends
Retirement and old friends. As has become my slight habit of late, I’m putting out this retro blog connected to my most recent one on the subject of friendships. This one from March, 2017 and a slightly broader view of friendships in retirement. Same location though, Sandsend on the Yorkshire coast. Maybe I’ve got slightly…
Retirement and friendships 2
Retirement and friendships. What happens to friendships as we grow older? I suppose the answer should be something along the lines of, well they simply endure (that’s why it’s a friendship) or even, they get better with age. Something to do with understanding and valuing your friends’ strengths and even their weaknesses and the warm…
Retirement Travel: a brief blog
Retirement travel. Well the fact is, there hasn’t been much of it this last couple of years for obvious reasons. In one way the predicted travel that was intended to form a central plank of our retirement hasn’t happened either. This on account of somebody, that would be me, getting two dogs just two weeks…
De-cluttering my retirement
I’ve given you a couple of links in my last blog to the idea of de-cluttering in retirement well here’s one more from July 2018, just nearly four years ago, for this week’s retro retirement blog. I know for a certain fact that I have already written a blog about de-cluttering in retirement yet when…