Back to November 2013 for this the 22nd retro retirement blog. Probably the first report in my retirement blogging of my desire to keep on learning. The first of my Coursera courses, it’s musical but with a twist. Real life experience and research findings don’t always agree and that’s an understatement. Some people swear by…
Category: Learning new skills
New skills : Writing a song
Number 8 in my series of re-releases / retro blogs. This one from September 2013. The first of my learning new skills retirement blogs. Once again it’s a retirement blog with swearing although not mine in this case. I haven’t yet blogged much about one of my key activities for retirement – learning new skills…
A short Friday retirement blog: why lockdown can be a good thing
As part of our learning in retirement goal, specifically our watch a TV documentary a day activity, we saw a programme yesterday about a man called ‘Chewing Gum Ben (Wilson)’ – you can Google him. He’s much more famous than we imagined but then we’d never heard of him. That’s him above in action. We…
Retirement blog : More learning for the new year
This catalogue (above) arrived this morning (Saturday). Don’t ask me why. Like many of its kind, mainly in digital form, it arrived unsolicited. I get much less of what used to be called junk mail in physical form through the letter box. But my laptop spam folder has really taken off in recent weeks. From…
Retirement blog: why aren’t I learning in lockdown?
It would be neat to write in this retirement blog about my increased use of Youtube video clips. This would fit with my previous blog about watching more television in lockdown. In the case of Youtube I would be able to write about how I have been watching loads more Youtube clips. Yes, neat, but…
Retirement blog about learning about retirement from books
In line with my policy of reading about retirement so that I can pass on any words of wisdom to my readers I bought (again as it turns out) a copy of BF Skinner and Margaret Vaughan’s book (one of my psychologist heroes you might remember) and entitled, How to enjoy Your Old Age, a…
Retirement blog : Don’t retire, keep on working?
This is the first time I’ve posted a retirement blog like this one. It’s totally written by Tamasin Ford (below) and I’ve taken it lock, stock and barrel from the BBC news site that comes up on my phone everyday. Lifting it like this probably constitutes a breach of copyright rules but until told different…
Retirement blog : What happened to the music?
There is no doubt that Covid 19 has had some unexpected side effects. On me at least. For example if, 4 months ago you had asked me what the three main pillars of my retirement were, excepting family and pets and health of course, I would have replied without hesitation – this blog, our vineyard…
Retirement blog about the long-awaited podcast
The more alert of you will have noticed a few passing references in these recent retirement blogs to a forthcoming podcast. The even more astute will have noticed the first chapter of the actual podcast on the pages of this blog. This latter group of people will not need me to tell them that the…
Retirement blog : never too old to try something new even if it is modest
This is a first. I’m writing this in our summerhouse. But wait isn’t that the whole point of it? It’s called the summerhouse years blog because theoretically you write it in your summerhouse. True, but not this summerhouse. This is our second summerhouse, yes, I know most people only have one but this one is…