In my case the answer seems to be, yes. Then I ask myself why would any intelligent person apparently factor in to his retirement a degree of pain, as I appear to be doing? Let me explain this possibly somewhat puzzling question. As with most people, there’s a whole section of my retirement that is… Continue reading Does retirement have to be painful?
Category: Well being
Retirement and my relaxation quotient
Maybe the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. There I was this week, strimming grass at the vineyard, getting our petrol driven hedge cutters back from being serviced (we have very tall hedges at our main house – see right) and then doing the hard part, actually using them (they’re bloody heavy and… Continue reading Retirement and my relaxation quotient
Who wants to live in a retirement village?
The answer to the above seems to be about 0.7% of retired people, over 65, in the UK and quite a lot more, 6%, in the USA. In the way of coincidence, two things happened last week that caused me to pause for a moment to consider did I want to see out our final… Continue reading Who wants to live in a retirement village?
Retirement and keeping busy – in the evenings
It will probably seem to regular readers of this blog that our retirement is a fairly full one (the legendary missing link apart of course). In fact a friend, with whom I went for a drink recently, said just this. You keep busy don’t you? I admitted that this was mostly true. As we all… Continue reading Retirement and keeping busy – in the evenings
Retirement and the supernatural
If that title doesn’t move me up the Google rankings for retirement blog then I just don’t know. Of course it’s a slight exaggeration, as you would expect, but in my retired mind there is an element of ‘truth’ about it. Let me explain, but first I need to set the scene, keep you in… Continue reading Retirement and the supernatural
Retirement and that old grass is greener thing?
I have called it the missing link of my retirement but I suppose this is a bit bigger than that. The question is would moving home be the answer to my occasional unease about the state of my retirement? Or would this be a bit drastic, somewhat of an overkill solution? The only reason I… Continue reading Retirement and that old grass is greener thing?
Retirement and winter weather
I realise that, as I sit down to write this retirement blog, that there is one subject that I haven’t written about that’s an obvious topic for the retired person. Namely the weather. Surely a favourite subject for the gossiping classes. And yet, until now (after 500 blogs), it hasn’t figured. So why now? Well… Continue reading Retirement and winter weather
Retirement thinking
I’ve been doing a bit of thinking about thinking. It came to me while we were walking the dogs the other morning. It is commonly recognised that walking is a good time for thinking. It must be said that when you’re walking the dogs this time is far from pure and uncluttered. Your thinking gets… Continue reading Retirement thinking
When we retire, should we pick up other peopIe’s litter?
I know one or two people who, since they retired, have taken to doing good works. From what I can make out, and I don’t like to enquire too deeply in case I a) get roped in and b) maybe worse, feel guilty that I’m not doing something similar, have been to do with helping,… Continue reading When we retire, should we pick up other peopIe’s litter?
Relaxing Retirement?
I find it hard to believe that I, as a retired person, should seemingly have so little time to write this blog especially given how up-beat I was in my last blog about the pleasures and pay-offs of writing it. Yet here I am starting to write on Sunday at the Derbyshire cottage with every… Continue reading Relaxing Retirement?