This is a bonus blog and I haven’t put one like this out before, it has no, or very few words. It is a photographic record of our dog walk this morning. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Category: Well being
Retirement and an increase in alcohol consumption?
One resolution that did not appear on my recent retirement list was to cut back on / give up alcohol. It seems like a foolish venture to me. I mean either ‘they’re’ never satisfied or the health message is incredibly confusing or both. I remember when my diabetes was first diagnosed I made the mistake…
Retirement and those New Year’s resolutions
It’s a strange thing but I’ve found it more difficult to make New Year resolutions, to set goals if you like, since I retired. Sometimes, dare I say it, it feels almost pointless. It’s taken me a while to work out why this should be. I think when I was working there was, given that…
Reviewing my third retirement year
I’ve written before about my diaries, the ones I fill in on a daily basis and have done for the last 37 years. An off-shoot of these diaries is my end of year review and my goal-setting for the New Year. In this blog I will confine myself to reviewing 2015, I think. We’ll see…
The bread of (retirement) life
My retirement record vis a vis cooking is poor. Since I retired I have managed to cook the princely total of one Chinese meal and that wasn’t entirely straightforward. Yep, that’s it. It’s yet another one of those activities that I predicted a great future for when I retired along with golf, travel, consultancy work, joining…
A retirement blog as therapy
Before I retired I worked as an educational psychologist. You will know this if you’ve read these blogs before and if you haven’t read them, why not? When I was working one of my bosses was a woman who might have been described as somewhat straight-laced. She was an excellent boss, intelligent and highly efficient,…
Is there such a thing as a typical retirement problem?
A while ago, in one of these blogs, I suggested that one way of working out what would make for a fulfilling retirement was to look back at your career and, assuming it has been a satisfying career, to ask yourself what was it about your career that had made it satisfying or fulfilling. If…
Retirement and the missing passion
I wrote quite a while ago about how I was worrying about my retirement and what I would do with my time because, unlike a lot of retired people, I didn’t have a hobby to ‘fall back on’. I had interests but no consuming ‘passions’ / obsessions. I was thinking about this again as a…
Retirement and beware the little things
There was one of those self-help books around a while ago entitled ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff (see right)’. I never read it, there was a time when I used to be an avid reader of such books and some of them I found helpful which fits with the genre. Most of them were thin…
Smoking is good for retired people
I’m thinking back to Woody Allen’s film Sleeper in which he’s been frozen for fifty years, whatever, comes back to life to find that smoking has been pronounced as beneficial to health. OK, to be fair I haven’t seen this actual headline yet but it’s surely only a matter of time. This morning, while researching…