I thought I would bring you up to date with how my learning about jazz improvisation is going. You may remember in a previous blog I referred to the fact that I had signed up for another Coursera course. They are a brilliant idea – free (mostly), on-line learning, but I did find the first… Continue reading Retirement and All That Jazz
Category: Learning new skills
The Fourth Dimension turns into the Twilight Zone
There are times when I think I will never write another blog. I’ve nothing to say, I think. Then along come half a dozen ideas at once. Take this one for instance (not the blog I had intended to publish) it’s about my jazz workshop and I hadn’t expected to write another blog about this aspect… Continue reading The Fourth Dimension turns into the Twilight Zone
The fourth dimension of retirement
I wrote a blog a while ago now about the key, or one key at least, to success in retirement. This was / is to design a new identity for yourself to replace the one you gave up when you retired. In my case I decided I would start describing myself as a writer and a… Continue reading The fourth dimension of retirement
Podcasting, the future of retirement? Not so sure
Let me begin at the beginning. Several weeks ago I attended a course run by The Guardian (the third one after self-publishing and blogging I’ve attended – fits with my learning new stuff goal) this time on podcasting. The course was run by Viv Oyolu and there were 6 of us on the course, 5… Continue reading Podcasting, the future of retirement? Not so sure
New la(m)ps for old: a lesson in anger and frustration
Build it and they will come – and they have. The good, the bad and the ugly. They have come but they are by no means the people you want to come. So far in about 6 weeks Akismet tells me, and I have no reason to doubt them, that well over 2000 message spam messages… Continue reading New la(m)ps for old: a lesson in anger and frustration
100 and still batting
As I sit reflecting on my new life (i.e. retirement) I realise that in all the many, many years I played cricket I never scored a hundred or anywhere near. After just six months of blogging I have clocked up one hundred blogs of various sorts. Pretty good in one way because, as my blog… Continue reading 100 and still batting