So I’m writing this on the day of my 72nd birthday. I hadn’t intended to write a retirement blog about this day but it seemed destined to be. I have to admit the day made an inauspicious start. First up was my diabetes blood sugar levels and up was the key word. I take them…
Category: Well being
Retirement blog: what’s in the bubble?
I‘m writing this retirement blog while watching the second day of the first Test match. That’s cricket if you don’t know. Even after being retired for nearly seven years I still find it difficult to sit and watch cricket on TV without doing something ‘useful’. Not that different from the old days when watching cricket…
Retirement blog: am I thinking right or am I getting emotional?
The ‘inspiration’ for this blog came from one of my usual sources – The Observer newspaper last Sunday. What was slightly unusual was that the quotes below came from an article about a woman who’d fallen on hard times and successfully taken up playing poker as a way to make money to support her family….
Retirement blog : will this pandemic mellow me out?
I think this really will be a short blog but who knows. I read a couple of articles in The Observer last Sunday. The paper is getting thinner and thinner but we keep buying it out of some kind of loyalty and, although there seems like less of it, the quality is as good as…
Retirement blog : the books that got me through the lockdown- so far
This just a visual retirement blog on the assumption that the titles are self-explanatory. As the title suggests these are a selection of those books that helped me cope with my restricted life style in lockdown. Just forget for a moment what I said about enjoying it. Just a brief note on each one. There’s…
A brief retirement blog about coming out of lockdown, for good or not so good
It pretty much goes without saying that these are strange times. Nothing stranger, for me, than the fact that I’m not really looking forward to lockdown ending. Is an image of caterpillar into butterfly too fanciful as a metaphor, as above? Of course there are one or two things I’m missing. Our weekly pub lunch…
Retirement blog about feeling pissed off and taking some actions
I’ve kept these blogs fairly upbeat over the last few weeks with all the challenges that lockdown has brought. I thought it would be the way to go both for my sake and the sake of my readers. And then strangely somewhat out of the blue, last week I realised I was somewhat pissed off…
Retirement blog: Keeping it balanced
Once more dear readers I’m writing in line with one of my solid retirement and even life values – balance. We need clarity about our key values at times like this and balance is definitely one of my most-treasured ones. As somebody once defined stress, it’s what happens when your day to day behaviour is…
Podcasting revisited in strange times, a retirement blog
You would have thought that generally, and in these strange times even more so, I would have turned for comfort to the radio. I am after all a child of the radio. When I was growing up all we had was the radio and a limited menu of choices it was too. The thing is,…
Retirement blog : Never give advice, except …
I know I’ve written this before in this retirement blog and overall I still believe this to be true but these are exceptional times so I’m going to break my own rule. There has been a great deal written in recent times about how to cope with social isolation. Everything I’ve read has been mostly…