So a retro retirement blog of retirement resolutions from 2013. Have my views changed? The short answer seems to be yes, they have and I’m quite surprised by how much. Seems like I was far more of a control freak all those years ago as you’ll see from my next blog. Right now I’m not…
Category: Reflections from Retirement
Retirement Review 2021
Well it’s the annual retirement review time. I say annual although, as I’m fond of saying these days, it feels more like 8 or 9 months. Anyway however long it’s been, the question is, what kind of ‘year’ has it been? Of course it’s fashionable to describe this last year and more as a terrible…
Retirement regrets: Don’t look back, 8 years into retirement
Retirement regrets? I have a few but then again… After the strange experience of visiting ‘that London’ for the first time in over two years, another strange experience this same week. The clue is in the above image. In case you don’t recognise it (and why would you?), it’s the last piece of work I…
In retirement no news is good news
After a slightly longer gap than usual here is retro retirement blog number 28. Again taken from the end of 2013 so no picture and a very early version of my retirement blog efforts with a hint of cricket which is masochistic given what’s happening in the world of England cricket.. It is said that…
A shortened Retirement Blog : you just never know what you’re going to find
Another step out of lockdown. Another aspect of delegation, about which I waxed lyrical, in my last retirement blog. Part of that delegation involved buildings. This blog features 3 more ‘buildings’ if I may call them that. Two of them ours and one belonging to my Derbyshire neighbour. It’s strange how buildings, already existing and…
Retirement blog: Is it OK to look back in time?
The more woke of you (stupid expression) may have noticed an additional retirement blog posted on Wednesday. Entitled, simply The Summerhouse Years. It said that it was the first blog ‘what I ever wrote’. How can this be you asked? Or, more likely, you just ignored it or perhaps thought I just made a mistake…
Retirement blog about the passing of a hero
I can’t let the death of Terence Conran pass without a comment. Maybe not actually a ‘hero’ but pretty damn close. As The Guardian writer, Suzanne Moore put it, ‘we all have a little bit of Conran in our lives whether we think about design or not’. In our case more than a ‘little bit’….
Retirement blog: Georgia on my mind
After the success of my retirement blogs reminiscing about our American and Irish experiences over the years, I thought I would try somewhere very different. The clue is in the image above and at end. In case you didn’t know this is a book of Georgian poetry*. And no that’s not Georgia the American state….
Retirement blog : America, the final chapter?
In part three of this American journey I expressed some doubt that I would fulfil my promise of 20 memorable events in our experience of America over the years. But fear not because I’m going to finish off the twenty in this blog. In this blog I’m going to write mostly about what might be…
Retirement blogs: America, part three, experiences 15 – 20
I don’t know whether I’ll get round to the full 20 ‘events’ I promised in the first one of these ‘America as was’, blogs but here’s another 5 favourite experiences to be going on with. In this blog I’ve grouped five must-remember music gigs (broadly speaking) together. They spread cross the years from 1979 to…