When I was 40 (seems like a very long time ago, in fact it was a very long time ago)) I managed very nearly to meet three of my heroes within the space of a couple of weeks. I saw Bruce Springsteen at Roundhay Park, narrowly missed meeting Mike Brearley ( ex-England cricket captain) at…
Category: Reflections from Retirement
Regrets? well maybe one or two
I’ve written quite a few blogs over the last 13 years about regrets. Usually from the point of view of having very few of them and generally of having done what we wanted to do. But now, maybe it’s the number of funerals we’ve attended (2 or even 3 depending how you count them) that…
I don’t believe it
You might believe I’ve made this up. It certainly seems that way to me as I write about the experience a week or so later. To cut right to the chase, after nearly 13 years of retirement I seriously considered going to back to work. There, I’ve said it and jolly embarrassing it is to…
Heading for the Hills More Easily in Retirement by Bruce Kirschner
I know when it’s time to “get outta Dodge.” This uniquely American phrase refers to a need to leave a place in an urgent manner. It is a reference to the real Dodge City, Kansas, which in the late 19th century was a bustling and infamous cattle town on the edge of the frontier. Dodge City…
Leave a legacy?
In 1994 I bought a book. Today I looked for it on my bookshelves and couldn’t find it. I did find the follow-up to the one I was looking for the one in the picture above. Both books were written by Stephen R. Covey something of a hero of mine way back then. And bloody…
Retirement and friendships again
Over the life span of this retirement blog I have written several blogs about the role of friends when one is retired. In a recent blog I said I would write about friendships and here we are. Way back when I wrote one entitled ‘retirement blog and old friends’, I speculated, at that early stage…
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…
Regrets, not really
What is it the song says – regrets I’ve had a few? In our case it’s definitely true that they’ve been too few to mention. On the whole we’ve taken our chances and experienced a pretty rich life, though I say it myself. One possible exception was coming home to the UK having lived in…
More normality than you can shake a stick at
Well if our pre-op lives were characterised by busyness then after last week you might say normality has returned. True with my prostate operation still to come I’m not back to complete pre-op normality but I’ll return to this aspect of my retirement life later. For now let me describe the last few days. We…
Are things improving?
You might call this a transitionary blog, if you were so minded. Read on and make your own judgement – are there signs of improvement of getting back to normal? A couple of things relevant to my continuing health issues since I posted my last blog. Both of them broadly good news but it’s, I’ve…