The second instalment of my retirement blog about America of yesteryear. I thought I‘d do a coast to coast re-visitation this time with a little bit in the middle. Perversely the first photo, the one above of our daughter in Kansas, is the last reference in this retirement blog. Of course coast to coast, inevitably…
Category: Reflections from Retirement
Retirement blog : America, back when…
Back by popular demand. After the runaway success of my favourite Irish experiences retirement blog. Thanks Graham. I am following that retirement blog with another one in a similar vein. This time it’s about America back in the days when, in the words of Merle Haggard, a buck was still made of silver, coke was…
Retirement blog : Ireland 2020, a celebration
Well by this time in the year we would normally be half way through our annual Irish holiday. Same as for last six years. But then these are not normal times as we know. So instead of being there right now we’ve taken our voucher for the same time next year. Took a bit of…
Retirement blog about self isolating houses
Always interesting to see what people do with their increased leisure time. Also to see if their activity has any connection with the government’s instruction to self-isolate. Here are four examples we found locally, next door but one in the case of the caravan. My neighbour acquired this charming thing a couple of weeks before…
Retirement blog about childhood games
Looking back to better times? They weren’t really of course. In many ways they were tough but through a Covid19 haze they seem better. A little dabble with the past in these tricky times seems quite acceptable so long as it doesn’t become a habit. This is after all a retirement blog not a childhood…
Retirement blog about looking back (and forward) to my drumming days
What possible connection can this photo (above) of my electronic drumset have to this current lockdown? Answers on a postcard. Ah those were the days. The answer is well in a couple of ways actually. First, it’s a further example of my spending money in a spirit of we’re all going to die so why…
Retirement blog : Photographic reminiscing
I know I’ve written this before but bear with me one more time. If you’d asked me a couple of years before I retired what I would do with my freedom, I would probably have said something like, play golf and develop (no pun intended) my photographic skills. Neither have happened. Any photos in recent…
Retirement blog about the goal for 2020 that doesn’t exist
I wrote recently in this retirement blog about not having any goals for 2020. I wrote that I’d tried the ‘want to do more of / less of’ thing, or bucket lists or the ‘6 months to live’ prompt. All to try and stimulate any ideas for targets to set / goals to seek in…
Retirement blog : Review of 2019
Another year that only lasted 8 months. I wrote the same thing this time last year. This has to stop, my life is whizzing past and I’m not getting full value. I know I wrote this last year because, out of curiosity, I re-read my review of 2018 retirement blog. I scored that year an…
Retirement blog in pictures with a little looking back
I came across these three Banana Republic* catalogues (as above) while looking for something else entirely. They’re from 1985, 87, 88 and I’ve kept them all these years. When I first came across this form of marketing I loved it. I loved the drawn images rather than the traditional photos. Mind you, at that time,…