In a recent retirement blog I wrote about de-cluttering or simplifying our lives. On the whole we thought it to be a good thing but with one small caveat. Was there a danger that we might overdo it and, by so doing, our lives would become boring? An unpleasant word in my lexicon and one… Continue reading Am I really becoming boring in retirement?
Category: Retirement problems
The year of simplifying our retirement?
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog about de-cluttering in retirement, specifically whether retirement was a good time to engage in such a potentially cleansing activity. I read the blog recently to see how it might fit with the one I am about to write. First thing to say is that I enjoyed… Continue reading The year of simplifying our retirement?
If you want a long retirement you need your eight hours sleep
We may be retired but apparently we’re ahead of the curve. Not a sentence I would expect to write very often, if at all. In one sense it’s to do with the time we go to bed and normally we’re rather embarrassed to tell people what that time is. No amount of backing up this… Continue reading If you want a long retirement you need your eight hours sleep
Retirement : Walking can damage your health
Retirement, a world of irony and humour. Was it only two weeks ago when I visited my GP worried about my essential tremors? Remember? And he asked me if I had taken to falling over and I laughed and said no, that had not happened to me. How wrong I was, very wrong. In the… Continue reading Retirement : Walking can damage your health
Retirement and Health and Fitness
I thought I would write a more light-hearted blog about retirement after last week’s serious one, that is if writing about my health and fitness can be described as light-hearted. I wrote a while ago about my plantar fasciitis aka a pain in the heel. I told you that I went to see a ‘private’… Continue reading Retirement and Health and Fitness
Retirement and the demon drink
Ever on the look-out for retirement-related items in the media, anything to get away from Trump, Brexit, etc. etc. etc. I came across this article –Why Baby Boomers are hitting the bottle like never before – disillusioned over 50s (well over in our case) are at risk of serious health problems because of alcohol abuse.… Continue reading Retirement and the demon drink
Retirement : freedom or boredom or something else?
As usual I was on the look-out for anything retirement related this weekend, in this case on the BBC news website, see headline and extract below. I asked Mrs Summerhouse on our morning doggie walk what she thought the answer was. She replied – neither, but certainly not boredom. The article said: Is an early… Continue reading Retirement : freedom or boredom or something else?
Is retirement stressful?
I’ve said before that I like to read the papers at the weekend to see if anything inspires a retirement blog. There is often something that fits the bill but I never get round to making a blog about it but not this time. Last weekend there was a big article in The Observer review… Continue reading Is retirement stressful?
Retirement and a lack of identity?
This is the third in my series of what I’m calling typical retirement problems or challenges if you prefer. This blog is about feeling that you lack an identity when you retire and the process of developing a new one – if you wish. On one hand it’s simple, for many of us our identity… Continue reading Retirement and a lack of identity?
Retirement and a lack of structure
Just over a month ago I wrote about my intention to write a monthly (or thereabouts) blog about typical retirement problems and perhaps as a bonus some remedial suggestions about what a retired person could do to tackle these problems. Last month I looked at the feeling of not belonging to a group. This month’s… Continue reading Retirement and a lack of structure