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… Continue reading Review of 2024
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.… Continue reading I do like to be beside the seaside
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… Continue reading Be careful what you wish for
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… Continue reading Rethinking the Retirement Couch by Bruce Kirschner
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… Continue reading At least try and look on the bright side
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)… Continue reading Is this what’s in store?
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… Continue reading A ghostly tale for Halloween
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… Continue reading Are you crazy?
DIY, no can do
Perhaps it’s inevitable that when you’re retired you look back at all the things you used to be able to do and can no longer do. Inevitable but stupid. An intelligent retiree focuses on those activities they can do and values / takes pleasure in those positives. Hmm, simple. That’s what I’ve tried to do… Continue reading DIY, no can do
What’s going on?
I must admit I’m slightly nervous about this blog and that’s why I’m writing it a week ahead of what has become my recent schedule of one blog every two weeks. The more astute of you will note that it is only one week since my last post. And what a mini furore that (my… Continue reading What’s going on?