I wrote in a recent blog that one area of retirement around which there was a high level of agreement that it was ‘a very good thing’, was keeping busy. And I have another aspect of retirement, and I’ve written about this before but I’ll say it again, that it is generally agreed is an…
Category: Learning new skills
Reflections of a retired person on jazz summer school
So a retired person decides to set himself a challenge. He believes that stepping out of his own comfort zone would somehow prove character building and that by setting challenges or goals that will be the way to fill that gap he’s sometimes called the missing link and hence lead to a complete and fulfilling…
Brave or foolish, where’s the line in retirement?
There’s an awful lot of, often conflicting, advice available about how a person can increase their chances of having a happy / productive retirement. One piece of advice that seems to induce a high level of agreement among retired people and those who advise us, is – keep active both physically and mentally. By keeping…
More about retirement and DIY work
More from those retirement tales of DIY, just skip it if you’re not interested in DIY or retirement but then if you weren’t interested in retirement you wouldn’t be reading this blog would you? Where was I? Oh yes, more DIY stories. I said last time that we had decided to replace the kitchen or…
What do retired people actually do?
Back to the question of what do retired people do when they retire? I know one answer from watching my guilty little secret aka Homes Under the Hammer which I have confessed to in these blogs as being a TV programme I regularly watch at 5 pm assuming we are in one of our homes…
Stained glass and retirement
At one time in these retirement blogs there was a strong theme of ‘stained glass windows’ running through them. In a couple of very early blogs I wrote about Mrs Summerhouse attending a course on how to make stained glass panels. She made a few panels and I showed them in these blogs. After that…
Retirement learning or lack of it and the referendum
One of my recent blogs looked at 5, although in fact 6, tips for bloggers. I thought after about 350 blogs I must know something, turns out not much but hey, why worry. I’m going to link this blog with that one although what I’m starting with isn’t the main topic of this blog. Confused? Good, so am…
Retirement and running a small business : Part 2
In my last Tuesday blog I wrote about how it came to pass that we are now running number one son’s gardening business, own it in fact (well nearly!). When he jetted off to OZ to pursue his dreams or at least one of his many women, we agreed that we would run the business…
Retirement and ‘running’ a small business
I know that one of the things that people do when they retire is start a small business. I wrote about it a while ago. After reading a newspaper article about the topic. It seems to me that those of us who take this path in retirement do so for two main reasons, not counting…
Retirement, active aging and film making
A couple of months ago I produced a blog about a film-making project for the over 65s called Cinage. A friend of mine, who was many years ago one of my college lecturers at art college, had taken part in the initial trial run of the project. He wrote about his experiences in the blog…