Back to December, 2013 for this retro retirement blog. It’s a day late on account of we’ve been picking the grapes, more of which later. I admit I haven’t had time to read it so I don’t know how I feel about it all these years later. I was driving down the M1 to visit…
Category: Retirement revisited
Goal setting and retirement
Retro retirement blog number 34 in the on-going series. It’s quite long, detailed and serious with some specific examples of what goal-setting looked like for me at the beginning of 2014 and early in my retirement. I don’t set goals any more although I generally have some broad ideas about my focus in a coming…
Another day, another dentist
A retro retirement blog from January, 2014. Quite amusing at the time and hopefully it’s retained its funny side seven and a half years later. If so you might even call it good retirement writing. ‘Yes, it’s quite infected. There’s a piece of bone sticking out of your gum, must have been quite painful’. Yep,…
The search for a new identity in retirement
Number 32 in the retro retirement blog series originally written in January 2014, but still a continuing theme in my retirement blogs today – how to develop a new identity in your retirement. An interesting graphic at the end rather than at the beginning as I do now. More in the way of psychology than…
The Christmas office lunch and retirement
A bit early for Christmas? But then others are already at it so why not me? The next in my series of retro blogs stretching back over the years to 2013 again. So early days indeed but a retirement blog that neatly and fairly represents my early retirement insecurities. Work colleagues and retirement, surely…
Learning new skills in retirement – the good, the bad and the ugly
The next in my series of retro blogs from 2013, early December in fact. It’s a retirement blog about learning new skills when retired, song-writing in this case. It’s also contains early thoughts about setting challenges and self-esteem. Quite interesting on re-reading which is more than I can say for my song-writing effort. The blog…
Puppies go to school
Number 26 (I think) in my retro blog series. This one from December, 2013. A very early doggie blog. Nice to look back and think how much better things are now, they were incredibly cute though. Just a quick blog to bring everybody up to date on one of our key and self inflicted retirement…
Learning new skills in retirement : taking a course in 2013
Back to November 2013 for this the 22nd retro retirement blog. Probably the first report in my retirement blogging of my desire to keep on learning. The first of my Coursera courses, it’s musical but with a twist. Real life experience and research findings don’t always agree and that’s an understatement. Some people swear by…
Humour : use it or lose it.
Retro retirement blog number 20 and I hope you’re still enjoying this trawl through the archives. This is one where, I have to confess, the title and the content of the blog don’t really fit. What I wrote wasn’t what I thought I was going to write but hopefully that doesn’t matter too much. Not…
Blogging and retirement : what does one bring to the other?
Retro retirement blog number 18. Back to a more chronological order so this one from 2013. My first consideration of what I saw as the benefits and the details of blogging for the retired person, this retired person anyway. From the point of view of writing as therapy, this blog has served its purpose well….