A bonus blog, unusually for me, published on Thursday for reasons that will be obvious as you read on. I met an ‘old’ lecturer (the one who wrote the poem) of mine the other week and he was telling me what he did to keep active in his retirement. I liked the sound of this…
Retirement and a little piece of card
Why am I showing you this? It’s a bit of card, what possible relevance could it have to my retirement life? It won’t be easy but I will try and explain, at least to myself. If you don’t like weird then stop reading. This blog is a bit of an antidote to the last blog’s…
Dog poo and retirement
The things that become important to you when you are retired. I’m pretty sure that our retirement routine, as I’ve told you, means that the pups get two walks a day. From an exercise point of view this sounds pretty good for me as well, of course, for them. Given I’ve got two diabetes and…
Taking control of your retirement – forget it
Lawks a-mercy. I thought I would make it my retirement mission to bring out of retirement some old English words and phrases that are, sadly, rarely used these days. I believe this is a popular – at the time – version of ‘Lord have mercy’. As I think the Lord should have mercy on my…
Vineyard 25 : Another disaster strikes?
Let me say, right up front, this is not the blog I had intended to publish but I need to get this off my chest so life can go on. So here we go again, writing as therapy. There’s good news and bad news from the vineyard this summer month of July – note the…
Yoga 7 : Anantasana, a side balance posture
The seventh in Mrs Summerhouse’s on-going series on yoga for retired people. Anantasana is a pose that helps clear the mind and hence has a calming effect. Given what is going on in our lives at the moment, something I will write about next time, my head is full of stuff so any strategy that helps…
Is de-cluttering a good idea when you’re retired?
If the colour supplements (Observer image on right) of late are to be believed the key to a happy life is to throw all your stuff away or at least to throw anything away that ‘doesn’t bring you joy’. It’s called de-cluttering and it’s supposed to deliver that feeling of lightness that I wrote about…
The Retired Athlete
I have optimistically started a new category for this blog – poetry. I have a couple of friends who, while not describing themselves as poets, would freely admit that they write poetry. I thought it might be nice to have a little variation around the retirement theme and hence I asked them to write a…
Vineyard 24 : The work starts again
I said in a recent blog that our vineyard was starting to generate tasks and last weekend saw us working away to tackle some of these. Overall the weather has been rather indifferent so far this year. Last year we had a warm March and this got our vines off to a good start. No…
Mrs Summerhouse’s art in retirement
I said in a recent retirement blog that, in order to get Mrs Summerhouse motivated with her art, I was setting her an (agreed) target to create one new piece of art every month. I would then publish the picture on this blog. So to prove that all this target setting business works, here is…