In my, now not inconsiderable, experience it is generally a good thing to plan your retirement around certain key goals. For example, in my case, writing a blog, playing music and creating and maintaining a vineyard. Perhaps it would be wise, however, not to see these goals as a forever thing. Inevitably, I think they…
And still no regrets?
Just so you can refer to the original it’s The Ten Best Questions the retired person can ask him/herself. And why am I referring to this now? Well see the picture above in last week’s Guardian. Hey I thought that’s my idea. Still no regrets that we didn’t publish it way back when but, prompted by…
Review of 2024
It’s customary for this retirement blog to review the year nearly gone by at about this point. In order to make this as realistic a view as possible I have been rereading this blog from a year ago and of course checking with my diary. If you’re going to engage in this kind of activity…
I do like to be beside the seaside
If the above were true, which to some extent it is, then the last few years would have been pretty miserable. This last weekend was our first visit to the sea, since, well we couldn’t quite remember when. Certainly pre Covid which would make it 5 or 6 years. Not great for self-confessed coast lovers….
Be careful what you wish for
Have you ever felt compelled, when you get to a certain age, to absolutely make the most of the time ‘you have left’. Sounds a bit dramatic I know but time’s winged chariot and all that. For such a lofty concept my version of it is, shall we say, a little prosaic, banal, ordinary, what…
Rethinking the Retirement Couch by Bruce Kirschner
Eleven years ago, approximately, when I started writing this blog all about retirement, I had the idea that it would be a community venture. In other words that other people would write blogs about retirement and I would post them. Now eleven years later I can count on one hand the number of guest blogs…
At least try and look on the bright side
You know you don’t have to be a deep thinker to realise that as you get older there is an increasing amount of rubbish that will, if you let it, not only clutter up but come to totally dominate one’s existence. Ergo (I like that word) you have to concentrate very hard to notice the…
Is this what’s in store?
It’s inevitable that when you get to a certain age, deep into retirement and even in danger of emerging the other side, we contemplate, with some trepidation, what you might call the final countdown, and that you start to wonder who will take care of me /us (if we’re lucky enough to have a partner)…
A ghostly tale for Halloween
After last week’s moment of ,madness about returning to work, back to safer ground. Or maybe not. If I can sort out the technology this is a blog from way back, a ghost story entitled ‘Welcome on Board, Sir’ from my ‘What Lies Beneath’ collection as shown on this blog. My excuse for resurrecting this…
Are you crazy?
I surprised myself this weekend, amazed myself in fact. How long have I been retired? Ten maybe eleven years? This is the kind of thought I had when I first retired but after ten years, come on, be realistic. I thought that this kind of thinking was long gone from my daily repertoire. I’m not…