Retirement writing therapy. It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these ‘writing as therapy’ blogs and you may feel, having read this blog, that my need for therapy is fairly insignificant given all that’s going on in the world but, trust me, I need the support that writing out my troubles has…
Tag: retirement project
Retirement blog: A therapeutic response to bureaucracy
They say the Devil makes work for idle hands. Some people think that retired people have too much time on their hands and this leads to these retired people getting involved in unnecessary projects. Ones that raise their stress levels with little benefit overall to their well-being. The project below may well come into that…
Retirement blog: a project takes off?
In a recent retirement blog about trying to be in control of my retirement life, I made, what I hoped, was a tantalising reference to a big decision I had made concerning our land and proposed cabin in Colorado. In a more recent blog I partially revealed the nature of this decision and linked this…
Retirement blog – more plating up
A retirement blog about another retirement project. Now Mrs Summerhouse is into dinner sets. Four full size plates in colour. Like the last set only bigger. She was getting started on a new design (see below) when she ran out of plates. Unfortunately so did Wilkos; must be that plates are in demand in lockdown…
Retirement blog and lockdown project : more plates
Second in the series of Mrs Summerhouse’s decorates plates with her doodles project. This time she’s using her coloured pens.
Vineyard 59 : buds bursting out all over
I’m a little late in posting this blog. It’s nearer 2 months since the last one rather than the one month interval I usually aim for. It’s not that there hasn’t been plenty happening in my wine world, there has. But as we’ve been away for over three weeks in Ireland, it hasn’t all been…
Another retirement project or is it the same one?
Don’t know what happened to this blog, should have gone out on Tuesday as usual. First time I’ve missed a deadline. I like holidays (although we’re home now) because they give a person time to reflect on life. In my case my retirement life. I think if I was ever going to make a sweeping…
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…