I’ll just check the date, I’m guessing it’s mid-October some time. I know Christmas has just gone but that must have been some kind of rehearsal for the real one coming up in December. It can’t possibly be the end of 2017 not after 8 or 9 months. What’s that you say, it really is…
Category: Well being
Retirement and our Christmas guests
This is going to be difficult to write and yet, so disrupted (I was going to write damaged but that’s probably too strong) have we been by this thing called Christmas, that I’m going to have to resort to the ‘writing as therapy’ aspect of this blog and hope that it comes out OK. Let…
Retirement and too soon for Christmas?
It’s probably a bit too soon to be writing about Christmas even if we are retired and time, as we know, moves much faster these days. I read about why this is reckoned to be and it was something to do with the proportion of time we had left to us which, as it’s getting…
Retirement : do other people find it a struggle?
A couple of weeks ago there was an article in the weekend colour supplement that caught my eye. I’m not sure why it is, but I seem to be reading less and less of the papers these days. There is a larger percentage of writing that falls into the either, ‘yep, seen that know all…
Retirement and back to our roots
Retirement brings about many changes. Take this blog, unusually, maybe uniquely, I’m writing it as we drive along the M1. Mrs Summerhouse is driving of course and this in itself is different. She drives more since I’ve been having troubles with my foot. I don’t miss driving as much as I thought I would and…
Retirement and starting a new life?
Is retirement the perfect opportunity to start a new life? I guess if we were ever going to engage in that old cliché, now is the time. What shall it be – escape to the proverbial desert island although I think not a hot one, I don’t like too much sun? Or take to the…
Retirement and young people and new phone
Do they see us coming? Do they? Do they? The ‘they’ in this case being young people, admittedly a fairly broad church when you’re 69, and the ‘us’ is retired people, aka old people. The expression, ‘see you coming’ was often used by my grandma on any occasion when she thought I’d been diddled (that…
Retirement and the end of the road
Don’t worry, the ‘end of the road’ is for our gardening business, hopefully not for us. In fact, given the amount of stress the business has caused us over the two and a quarter years we have been running it on behalf of our son who was until recently living in Australia, we might almost…
Retirement and your Ikigai
A couple of months ago I announced that I intended to try and write a blog about retirement as it related to the topic of a weekly article in The Observer colour supplement entitled Inner Life. Each week would be a different topic vaguely related to psychology and the meaning of life. I said I…
Does the ‘balance of power’ change when you retire?
We were walking the pups in the park and chatting about our autumn holiday to come. In Wales, on a vineyard, to be precise, but more of that in a later blog. The point was that Mrs Summerhouse had booked this holiday on her iPad. True I’d pointed her to the website of Welsh vineyards,…