Is it really true that the devil makes work for idle hands? More to the point, if it is true then how does that apply to the retired person? Should the very concept of idleness be banished from the lexicon of the retired person? After all there is one very strong theory that retirement should…
Category: Well being
Retirement blog and gardening: who’d have thought it?
My giddy aunt, a retirement blog about gardening. Now I know I’ve truly retired. And it’s only taken nigh on six years to come to this realisation. I have to admit it’s with some mixed feelings (nothing new for yours truly) that I understand the implications and try and share them with my readers in…
Retirement blog : don’t sweat the small stuff – unless you can’t help it
Wasn’t there a book a while ago titled something like, ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’? Apart from one or two caveats you’d have to admit, as a retirement blog / life mantra, nothing could be more sensible. One obvious qualifier is when does a small bit of stuff transfigure into a bloody big bit actually?…
Retirement blog about sagas, are they a good thing?
A retirement blog about life sagas. Somebody once said nature abhors a vacuum. I don’t know what the original meant or what the context was, but I can easily transfer, what I understand to be the context, to my own retirement life. It means when you stop work and face the prospect of not having…
Retirement blog about a naughty world
I get many of my best ideas for these retirement blogs while walking the dogs, particularly the morning walk when I am at my most alert. It’s all relative of course. Not so many of them actually make it on to the ‘page’ as I usually forget them by the time I get home. But…
Retirement blog about sponsoring a dead bird
What is it they say? The devil makes work for idle hands? And fair enough too, s/he should do that kind of stuff, s/he is after all Beelzebub and s/he’s supposed to do annoying things. But hang on, as I explained in my last blog, my retirement years are anything but idle. They’re very unidle,…
Retirement blog: feast or famine
So much going off this last week it’s difficult to know where to start. It’s feast or famine isn’t it? Don’t know where that expression comes from, the bible probably, but wherever it came from, it’s right on the money about my retirement life at the moment. I get bored if I’m in the same…
Retirement blog about nostalgia and other events
A retirement blog about retirement being a wonderful thing. So much time to do so many things. In my case time for a bit of nostalgia and, given that Spring is here, (in February are you crazy?) a bit of DIY and spring rearranging. We don’t really buy any new stuff, we don’t need to,…
Retirement blog: looking on the sunny side of life
We are about half way through dry January (well we were when I wrote this, now actually near the end). But we haven’t had much rain so far although we did get a little snow last Friday and for a while it seemed we might be snowed in at the barn. We weren’t, but we…
Retirement blog about a New Year irritations and work
There’s this bloke who’s written this book. It was reviewed last weekend. I’m buggered if I’m going to name him or it. Why should I give him more publicity when nobody wants to publish my book of blogs? I realise that may sound a little negative but then it’s traditional (post-Christmas blues or some such)…