Some things don’t entirely change in retirement. Every year about this time Mrs Summerhouse goes away for a weekend with her sisters – there are four of them. This was the weekend just gone. This was, however, the first time she had gone away and left me with the pups and the first one as…
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Carpes Diem?
There’s nowhere else I’d rather be – discuss. Complacency or contentment? Does retirement produce more of one than the other? Depends a bit what you bring to the party – what kind of person were you before you retired? These idle, indeed trivial, thoughts run through my head lying in bed early Saturday morning. I…
Our first Valentine’s Day in Retirement
Call me a romantic old fool – you’re a romantic old fool – but I can’t let Valentine’s Day go by without some recognition and I wouldn’t have let it go by this far had it not been for the fact that it was a day of mixed fortunes – as you will see if…
My dogs can swim and eat vomit
The following is what was on my phone when I looked at it next day. It’s the ‘transcript’ of the text ‘conversation’ between my daughter and I when she found out from her mother that there had been a bit of a drama with the doggies. It made me smile, which is good, because jumping,…