So retirement activities. This is a retro retirement blog from February, 2014 as it says. It seemed a good idea to republish it now for three reasons. One, it’s marmalade-making time again and Mrs Summerhouse is currently engaged in just this task (just finished in fact). Two, I thought we could do with a slightly… Continue reading Retirement Activities : Making Marmalade, ’14
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Retirement activities: Stained glass 2
Retirement activities. A retro retirement blog from December 2013. It was in the days when we were both searching for arty type activities for our retirement time. Mrs Summerhouse found stained glass work. For a while it looked like it was going to be a definite plank of our retirement. It wasn’t. It’s strange looking … Continue reading Retirement activities: Stained glass 2
Retirement blog: Stained glass
Retro retirement blog (a very short one) about an early and unfortunately short-lived retirement hobby. Like the last retro blog it involves taking a course. Back to October 2013 for this one. This was a retirement activity for Mrs Summerhouse and it seemed like a good one to begin with. Unfortunately for one reason or… Continue reading Retirement blog: Stained glass
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… Continue reading Learning new skills in retirement : taking a course in 2013
Retirement, is it a life-changing experience?
I really don’t know how to start this blog. I know how I intended to start it and what I planned to write about. This was easy I intended to write about the mysterious Guardian course I referred to in a previous blog but that was before our journey back to Leeds on Sunday. We’d… Continue reading Retirement, is it a life-changing experience?
Vineyard 21 : Winter Pruning, not as easy as you think
If you’re not, yourself, a vineyard owner, you probably thought there would not be much going on in a vineyard at this time of year. The vines are dormant and so are the owners of those vines. Right? Well, as always in life, the answer is yes and no. In my last blog I told… Continue reading Vineyard 21 : Winter Pruning, not as easy as you think