This week we did something that I think sensible, retired people do. We found a nice spot in the Derbyshire countryside and walked around and admired it. We had planned to head back to Leeds on Monday (the weather was abysmal on Sunday) but the photo above showed the weather on that morning out of…
Category: Well being
Retirement blog about the known knowns
Write about what you know. This is writing’s version of football’s ‘play the way you’re facing’. All well and good and very sensible, but sometimes what I know might not be what you want to read about. And what I think I know I might not know at all. As is often the case when…
Retirement blog and more about being in control : a shorter Friday blog
I was struck this week by how relevant to my well-being is the on-going theme of being in control of my retirement life. The notion of being in control of my retirement has been a constant throughout these retirement blogs. Whether I’ve got worse after 6 years retired, I couldn’t say. Probably. Sometimes blogs are…
Retirement blog about leaking roofs and familial relationships
In the words of the old Phil Collins song – the roof (garage) is leaking. I don’t think Phil actually wrote about the garage roof and it’s more flooding than leaking but still it’s the same type of thing. It’s not so long ago I wrote a blog about work setting me free and now…
Retirement blog about what’s meaningful
The ‘inspiration’ for this retirement blog came from me reading a book review in Saturday’s Guardian newspaper (as above). I wrote about my love of books a few blogs ago which explains why this is one of the few bits of the paper I read with some interest. This particular book was entitled ‘This Life,…
Retirement blog about looking the other way
This could be a tricky retirement blog to write but I’ll have a go. I’ll just say this before I begin, I’m a bit worried that my recent blogs have been a bit on the miserable side. Perhaps this is so but that’s just the way the cookie seems to be crumbling at the moment….
Retirement blog about the good life
I am aware I spend a lot of my time in these retirement blogs vaguely complaining about how busy my retirement life is. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could slow down and relax? And yet, at a point just half way through my second quiet day, I’m, whisper it, close to being bored. When…
Retirement blog about having a nervous breakdown
Not me and nothing mental, but the title does not lie. It was a breakdown and we were nervous. Click bait is that what a title like the above is called? Let me explain. On the way to my grammar school reunion we broke down and the place we broke down in – no hard…
A retirement blog about a typical retirement week?
A week in the life of a retired person. I’m not saying this is every week but the things that happened are not totally untypical. I will leave you to judge whether this is an emotionally healthy way to spend one’s retirement, typical or not. From last Monday it went something like this. On the…
A short Retirement blog about day-time TV – beware
Is this what they mean by relaxing? I’ve told you before that I have trouble with this idea of retirement being a time for relaxation, or idleness as I prefer to call it. After what happened yesterday I’m sure I was right when I say retirement is next to idleness or even right on top…