During the course of my retirement I think it’s fair to say a number of strange things have happened, but none stranger than what happened a week or so ago. The simplest version of this event was that my living room was full of people. Not so strange you say but let me elaborate. There…
Tag: friends
Retirement and friendships again
Over the life span of this retirement blog I have written several blogs about the role of friends when one is retired. In a recent blog I said I would write about friendships and here we are. Way back when I wrote one entitled ‘retirement blog and old friends’, I speculated, at that early stage…
Retirement and friendships 2
Retirement and friendships. What happens to friendships as we grow older? I suppose the answer should be something along the lines of, well they simply endure (that’s why it’s a friendship) or even, they get better with age. Something to do with understanding and valuing your friends’ strengths and even their weaknesses and the warm…
Retirement blog: Friends, relatives, mining and retirement a strange mix?
One of the knock on effects of the pandemic has been seeing nothing or very little of friends and relatives. If you’re a tad on the anti-social side, as I confess I am, then this can be a blessing. And one or two ‘friends’ I haven’t missed at all. Long may their absence continue. Of…
Retirement blog about old friends
Does friendship mean something different to us as a retired person than when we were working? At this early stage in this retirement blog the answer is, ‘probably’ but we shall see as the blog develops. My initial thought is that, given so many friendships came about through work, we might well expect to make…
Message from New Zealand : who needs enemies with …
I was skyping a friend in New Zealand, never let it be said that, in retirement, I don’t keep up with technology. The fact that it has taken me this long to try out this form of newness might belie that statement but, here I was this morning, skyping with the best of them. It…