I suppose it is inevitable that as one gets to ‘a certain age’ the inclination is to look backwards rather than forwards. I can’t quite remember what inspired me to choose ten years as the point in the past to mull over but that’s Ok, it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want…
Category: Retirement revisited
Retirement and health issues review
Health issues from over five years ago. I thought it might be fun to compare then with now health-wise for this retro blog. You know give us all a bit of a laugh. These were the days when diabetes was king (it has a separate category now). Nowadays I can hardly fit it in to…
Self Esteem and Retirement, a retro blog
So self-esteem and retirement. My first retro blog for a while. This one from February, 2014. This was very much the kind of retirement blog I planned to write, i.e. one with a significant psychological content and as it applied to retirement. The further I’ve got from my retirement beginning the less the psychological content….
Retirement : A Perfect Day?
Perfect retirement day. I’ve gone back eight years to November, 2014 to compare what a perfect day looked like then compared with the one I wrote about recently.There are inevitably certain similarities namely food and drink, trains and a trip out into the countryside, Yorkshire this time rather than Derbyshire. Otherwise much the same certainly…
Retirement Activities : Making Marmalade, ’14
So retirement activities. This is a retro retirement blog from February, 2014 as it says. It seemed a good idea to republish it now for three reasons. One, it’s marmalade-making time again and Mrs Summerhouse is currently engaged in just this task (just finished in fact). Two, I thought we could do with a slightly…
My first retirement Christmas. A retro retirement blog
A retro retirement blog appropriately enough, about my first Christmas when retired in 2013. It starts well and drops away to be a fairly meaningless rant about spammers. Admittedly they were a problem in the early days. Now I don’t get any comments at all so I might even welcome fake comments. There’s a bit…
Retirement and kitchen renovation
I’ve gone back in time, as is usually the case for this retro retirement blog, but not as far back as I usually go, to September, 2016 in fact. This retro blog was attached to Friday’s blog and I read it and thought it fit rather well with the focus on IKEA in that retirement…
Puppies into doggies. Ahh, cute, well no
I hate bloody fireworks. Why do they have to make a noise? Isn’t it enough for people to see the pretty lights without the bloody bangs? We had a terrible night with our dogs, one dog particularly. He spent the night or most of it in bed with us, lying on Mrs Summerhouse’s pillow while…
Retiring views on brutality
A slightly strange retro retirement blog from June 2014. It’s about architecture which was the career I was supposed to pursue until I failed all my A levels (read on for an elaboration). Worked out OK though. Lots of photos for some reason. Why would I be writing about architecture on a retirement site? Furthermore…
Retirement : a rich tapestry* as Carole King said
It was this retro retirement blog or one on coping with depression. I decided to go for the lighter version. This one first posted in January, 2014 but still relevant I think. It’s more about dentists I’m afraid. And I haven’t been to the dentist because of Covid for many months. Perhaps I’m missing those…