While I’m on a roll with the sport in retirement blogging here’s another one as a retro retirement blog, possibly my first ever, way back in 2013 or 14, I’m not sure. I detect a somewhat more optimistic view of sport generally and cricket particularly. Hmm, not sure why I thought things were better then….
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The Beautiful Game
Not the retro retirement blog I had intended to publish but that got lost so you’ve got this one. A sign of things to come this winter? It’s from the same month and year – January, 2014. Hope you enjoy it. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. I did it. I switched on the cricket…
Retirement blog about superstition increasing with age?
The question I would like to ask in this retirement blog is, do we get more superstitious as we get older? I only ask because I think it is possible that I am (getting more superstitious) and I wondered whether it was just me. I’ve always slightly inclined towards being a bit superstitious. Just the…
Retirement blog about sport – call this fun?
Sport and retirement, retirement and sport. A dangerous combination. Never more so than today and I’m starting writing this blog 35 minutes before an important day in English sport. I won’t bore you with the details, after all you might not give a toss about sport. Well that’s fine, unfortunately that doesn’t apply to me….
In retirement, control what you can, i.e. not sport
As I’ve said before in these retirement blogs, control what you can in your retirement life and smile philosophically about what you can’t. Above all do not, repeat not, willfully bring into your retirement life, experiences you can’t control, unless of course you enjoy a retirement that’s out of control. Some might call it living…
Retirement and watching sport : do they go hand in glove?
One thing we know about retirement is that watching day time TV is the kiss of death, just one step away from dribbling senility. I’m very clear on this, so how to explain that for the last two days I have sat in front of that same TV dribbling and being senile? Answer, I’ve been…
No cricket for me in retirement
Thursday I went to watch Yorkshire v Somerset at Headingley (see photo of ‘new’ pavilion under glowering skies – no surprise that the game finished early, there are no floodlights, we’re a bit backward) . I could be mentioning this because this is, in part, what I thought I might do when I retired. It’s the…
Patriotism, sport and retirement
This is a rambling, ill-formed blog, hope you like it. Question : are retired people more patriotic than younger people? Let’s clear this one up right away. I have absolutely no idea. I get the impression that the UKIP vote is made up more of us elderly types but that may be scant evidence of…
Retirement and The Ashes
Just had Matt Prior on the radio talking about fight and passion. Brilliant, did we need to wait until now to zero in on such basic concepts? This is not why I retired. I do not believe there is a more miserably vicarious sporting experience than that made available to the English cricket fan when…
In retirement I spit on sport
Retirement brings many things – a respect from one’s children for a career well-spent maybe or perhaps just general all round admiration? Well, no, at least not right now. After the second day of the first Ashes test match my daughter sent me a text saying ‘thank you for ruining my life’. I’d introduced her…