Retro retirement blog number 17. In a slight break with tradition I’ve jumped forward to February 2015 with this retirement blog about taking on too much. Given my recent blog about being a bit over-loaded I thought it might be interesting to compare this last one with this one 6 years ago. Reading the 2015… Continue reading Retirement : too much to do / taking too much on?
Category: Retirement revisited
Happy retirement and tradition
Retro retirement blog number 16 in this currently weekly series of re-visiting my earliest blogs. This one was originally written in February, 2014. It’s a strange one but it must have seemed right back then. In retirement you need to preserve tradition – some traditions anyway. We have a tradition in our family, it’s not… Continue reading Happy retirement and tradition
Retirement : ‘Cut back on obligations: Promote a certain elegant looseness in life. Simple as that’.
Retro retirement blog number 15 from originally 2013. A day later than usual. Apologies. I went for a drink with an ex colleague last night – retirement increases the number of ex-colleagues at a stroke. I mention this because it’s unusual in a number of ways – this particular colleague and I don’t usually go… Continue reading Retirement : ‘Cut back on obligations: Promote a certain elegant looseness in life. Simple as that’.
Does retirement give a person a sense of belonging?
Number 14 in the retro retirement blog series. Again this one from 2013, so early days indeed. How different would it be if I’d written it today?It would have a picture up front rather than at the end (and a strange choice of image it is) otherwise I’m not sure. My wife and I went… Continue reading Does retirement give a person a sense of belonging?
Writing from the bottom drawer
Number 12 in the retro retirement blog series. Not published on the usual day (Sunday) because we’re at the Heanor house and that causes some difficulties. So here it is. Another very early blog, from 2013, again no picture. What better time to revisit your past writings than in your retirement phase? I’ve always… Continue reading Writing from the bottom drawer
Retiring from education
Number 11 in my retro retirement blog revisited. A slightly strange topic but then this was 2013 and times change. Is being retired from education any different than being retired from any other job or profession? I must confess I have thought quite a lot about this state that people call retirement, but I haven’t… Continue reading Retiring from education
Top tips for a happy retirement
Number 10 in the series of retro blogs. This really is a short one. I must have been in my less is more writing period. Never seen since. No picture again. A recent Huffington Post article on retirement on AOL entitled ‘5 Things Never to say to a Retiree’ caught my attention as you might… Continue reading Top tips for a happy retirement
Dogs and retirement blog
Retirement retro blog number 10 in this retirement blogs revisited series. I’ve been writing quite a bit about our dogs and the difficulties of traveling abroad with them in tow. So it’s appropriate to go back to 2013 and look at how it all started, this dog-owning part of our life. Little did we know.… Continue reading Dogs and retirement blog
These are worrying times, but are they really?
Retro retirement blog number 9. First published in 2013. I read it through, not bad, sensible advice of the kind that I valued then and thought others would, no picture though. For some of us the words retirement and worry are close relatives, almost the same person in fact. When we lived in New… Continue reading These are worrying times, but are they really?
Clumsiness the new life style choice
Number 7 in my series of retro blogs again from 2013. It has some bad language in it, be warned. I’m not sure what to make of how it’s written, probably too much swearing and my clumsiness has got worse so yes, I’m not sure how I feel about it now. No picture again I’m… Continue reading Clumsiness the new life style choice