In my most recent blog I wrote about the time pre Covid and pre my ill health when I thought about buying land in Ireland and planting a vineyard. Making wine in Ireland from Irish grapes. This idea / scheme came in under the heading of did we have one last adventure left in us?…
Category: Retirement Planning
Recovering health and starting again?
There’s many a time I have an idea for one of these retirement blogs and I might not start writing it straight away then I come back to it and I think, nah, that won’t work and I have to think of another topic. Well this is like that only different. In this case I’m…
The perfect retirement?
The fourth of my retirement blogs revisited. This retro retirement blog was first posted in July, 2013 and again this is pre-photo days. It will be interesting to see how this early view of a perfect retirement compares with my experience these days. After Winston Churchill had led the country to victory in the…
The Summerhouse Years
Something of an experiment. This is my first ever blog, written in 2013. I will explain in more detail on Friday. This much I know, when you retire you need a place of your own, a place that surrounds you, comforts you, says relax, just be yourself. You won’t spend all your time in this…
A short Friday retirement blog: when I retire what’s my next career?
It’s rare we shop at Waitrose these days. We’re Aldi or Lidl shoppers now. If we end up in Waitrose then we get our free Guardian and also on this occasion, the Waitrose Weekend supplement. So what do we care? I hear you say. Very little, I imagine but I just thought I would mention…