So the wedding of my favourite daughter, I’ve put it off for a while mainly because I didn’t have any photos and now I do courtesy of number one son, most of which are unpublishable but I’ve extracted a few from the many he took, on his phone of course, and there are all the…
Now I’m retired should I join something?
So the wedding is over, it went well. More of this later. We’re back from our very nice holiday with the pups in Ireland (more of this and house buying in a later blog) and although this set me off again wondering about where we, in retirement, should live, it was definitely more good than…
In retirement should I publish a newsletter as part of my blog?
I’m not going to write about our daughter’s wedding yet, I need time to reflect and digest so here’s a blog about a more mundane matter. First, I have a confession, I have one small weakness as a human being, this is that I want people to like me. When I worked and with the…
Retirement in Australia!
Note the exclamation mark at the end of the title (the author’s), not a question mark. This is not a blog about me questioning whether we should retire to OZ. My daughter gets married today and so we’re a little bit pre-occupied. I was wondering whether I would have time to write a second blog…
Retirement : return to Ireland?
I need to return to Ireland one more time, not actually but in writing. This blog is the blog I intended to write about Ireland before we went. It is the blog that I thought I would write if not much happened on our ten days away. But then, predictably I suppose for us, a…
Retirement Abroad, is this the way to happiness?
I had rather wondered what I would write about this week, after the Lord Mayor’s show of coming back from a very nice holiday. Our friends in Shanghai solved the first problem on Tuesday although created another one by unsettling us, but what to write about next? I’ve included a photo of Spain(right) for reasons…
How to give the illusion that you are on permanent vacation
To continue the world-wide theme of this retirement blog, I’m delighted to include another blog from our friends in Shanghai. Ireland one week, China the next, what value for money especially as it’s free. You will remember from previous blogs of theirs that this couple chose not to go gently into that dark night of…
Should we retire to Ireland?
Is it more likely that a retired person should spend time considering the question – is this where I belong? Look at the photo above and you might see some of the attraction. Belonging seems to have some extra significance when you’re retired. I wrote a blog quite a while ago now about losing my…
Retirement and travelling back to old Ireland.
Well here we are and this is the view out of the window as I sit trying to create this blog. It’s a struggle, in fact from worrying about whether I could publish a blog this week at all, I have moved into ‘a feck it, this is Ireland, it’s too much trouble’ mode. I…
Retirement : How much is too much?
I wrote this blog a few weeks ago but never got round to publishing it. Today we’re off to Ireland very early in the morning so I’m going to set this to self-publish on Friday while we’re on our way to Holyhead. Whether I maintain my 100% record of publishing two blogs (or even one)…