So retirement de-cluttering. If you’re one of nature’s born collectors verging on the psychotic hoarder, that’s me by the way, then you might wonder why the act of decluttering, sometime known as dieting for the soul, should give me such pleasure. Mrs Summerhouse as well but then she isn’t really a clutterer in the first…
The Vineyard Years. A podcast, Chapter 32: The Tale of the Yorkshire Grippler
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:31 — 6.0MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSThe vineyard years. If there’s a definite positive to owning a vineyard it’s the excuse it gives me for buying new toys. For example, in this episode the buying of a grippler. What’s that you say, you don’t know what…
Retirement frustrations 3
Does life get more frustrating as you get older? Do retirement frustrations become more common? My mobile phone is broken. Now you know you’re in trouble when you can’t even define what broken means. I seem to have sat on it and broken the screen. Well that’s clear enough yes, but it’s been broken like…
Music in retirement: Concerts we have known
Ah music in retirement. I thought I would try for a retro retirement blog with a somewhat more up beat flavour. This one is from March, 2014 and it made me smile. I hope it does the same for you. It’s a different take on the role of music in our lives. On Wednesday night…
Vineyard 86: Winter activities and more
I’ve written before in this vineyard blog about what we do in the winter months. Apart from any maintenance tasks and winter pruning at certain times which have become more variable the older the vineyard has become. Not good practice but that’s the way things are with us as we get, as well as the…
Retirement and Television 2
Now for retirement and television. There is no doubt that for many retired people television is something of a Godsend. It wards off the loneliness and fills in those empty hours. Phew, that’s quite a miserable start to this retirement blog. I’ll just say in an effort to be more positive, that with a little…
Retro art blog: The Summer Exhibition
So retro art. We got a nice reaction to our last art blog so I thought I’d go back in time to what I think is our first Mrs Summerhouse’s art blog for this retro retirement blog. Back to 2014 for this one. A very different style neither better nor worse, just different. What you…
Retirement art: Mrs Summerhouse 2022
So to retirement art. It’s been a while since I posted any of Mrs Summerhouse’s art but she’s been beavering away nonetheless. So here are four example of her most recent work. She’s produced it for an exhibition she’s got coming up, more of which later no doubt. Retirement art summary So it’s nice that…
The Vineyard Years. A Podcast, Chapter 31: Still more to do but it’s looking well
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 8:38 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: Android | Email | RSSIt’s March in the Vineyard Years and our thoughts turn to winter pruning. We’re later this year than last. We shall see what effect this has on our crop, if we get one that is. PS That’s a grippler in…
Retirement stress: for good or bad, it’s up to you
Retirement stress then. It’s funny because I know all this stuff both from the viewpoint of a consumer and an adviser. You can’t be a psychologist for thirty or more years and be a big fan of cognitive behaviour therapy etc. and not know all about (well maybe not all but a lot) how our…