Despite the name of this blog (The Summerhouse Years, in case you’d forgotten) and the image on the header of me sitting in our summerhouse (the first one), I have rarely written these blogs actually in the summerhouse itself. No excuses, it’s not as if I have to walk miles to it (it’s right out…
Tag: DIY
Retirement blog and avoiding DIY
I know I said I’d only write one retirement blog a week but this one was asking to be posted. So I have. I have heard that there are women (there may even be men) out there who wait for their partners to retire so that they may present them with a long list of…
More about retirement and DIY work
More from those retirement tales of DIY, just skip it if you’re not interested in DIY or retirement but then if you weren’t interested in retirement you wouldn’t be reading this blog would you? Where was I? Oh yes, more DIY stories. I said last time that we had decided to replace the kitchen or…
What do retired people actually do?
Back to the question of what do retired people do when they retire? I know one answer from watching my guilty little secret aka Homes Under the Hammer which I have confessed to in these blogs as being a TV programme I regularly watch at 5 pm assuming we are in one of our homes…
Retirement Project : A Shepherds’ Hut?
After last week’s blog something a little lighter about the world of retirement. There is no doubt that making an object with your own hands or, at least with your own power tools, is one of those activities that gives great meaning to our retirement lives. Given that, as I’ve written in this blog, finding…