I ‘ve been trying for the last six years to persuade friends to post a guest blog on this site – without any success. Then, as they say about buses, from none we move to two blog offers in a week. It’s not that I don’t get offers of guest blogs it’s just that the…
Category: Reflections from Retirement
Retirement blog : Reflections on what might have been
I’ve sometimes accused myself, in these retirement blogs, of living my retirement vicariously. I look at what others are doing and think, if only. Perhaps never more so than looking at friends who have chosen a life overseas. This weekend we will be hooking up with a friend who, with his wife (see above), have…
Retirement blog about Georgian wine
I’ve had a mixed reaction from my readers to the issue of idleness in retirement with or without the devil’s contribution. On one hand, there was, don’t worry about it, it’s fine. On the other, idleness is indeed something to be banished from the retired person’s lexicon. Not sure whether he meant the word or…
Retirement blog : a bit of nostalgia
I’ve lost two friends this week, one was a bird – the red kite, and the other an old friend whose funeral I went to. I’ll explain further at some later date. So saying good bye to them both put me in nostalgic mood and I’ve gone back to my younger, maybe simpler, days when…
Retirement blog the best moments of 2018
Retirement blog about best moments of 2018 I wasn’t sure that I could, or should, write a retirement blog that fit with the above title. Not because there weren’t any such moments but because I thought I’d probably written about them in my last blog. Then I happened to read an article in Saturday’s Guardian…
Retirement blog reviewing 2018
Retirement blog reviewing 2018 Every year about this time I write, it’s about that time of year again. Which is an awkward way of indicating it’s time to review the year of 2018 which has lasted about 8 months or so it seems to me, certainly hasn’t been the full 12 months. Only an idiot…
Retirement blog : Wishing you a very different Christmas
I was going to make this retirement blog different. Interesting you say, how? Well, for example, as it’s going out on Christmas day I thought I would make it nothing to do with Christmas. Clever don’t you think? I was also going to write this blog on a typewriter like the one I’ve still got…
Retirement reflections : my career as a book cover designer
A while ago I wrote that I thought a bit of looking back from retirement was OK. You might even learn something that helps with planning your retirement. In one blog I wrote about the nearly careers I had had. One of these was trying to get a gig as a cartoonist. That didn’t work…
Reflections from retirement
A retired person can, either move with the times and learn new skills, or s/he can be stuck in the past or, in my case both, as perhaps this blog will demonstrate. One of my new skill sets, as modern people would say, is to read the news on my phone while sitting on the…
Looking back from retirement
I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago which started with my confessing that I had ‘done something strange’. It was about me re-registering as a psychologist at a time when I had given up being a psychologist, 18 months ago. Why did I do such a perverse thing? I suppose the answer was…