This was not my planned retirement blog but I needed a bit of therapy. If you’ve read any of these blogs before you will know that I like the idea of taking control of life in general and retirement specifically. I am somewhere between an everyday planner and a control freak, I admit it. Always…
Category: Well being
Retirement and the old tape deck
What is it about retirement that makes you get things mended? You don’t, well, it must be me then. This story begins 36 years ago when we lived in the USA. What a bright land of plenty it was for a 30 year old Brit and his family, all glitz and gloss (and I don’t…
What’s best for retirement? Many activities or one?
Time for a little lightness in this retirement world. You will need to wait to the end of this blog to find out the significance of the image on the right. I recently received the ‘message’ below from a friend in Australia, where else you will say when you read it? It set me thinking, although…
Problems and possibilities : Part Two
One of my more serious / advice type blogs. It refers to many of the topics I’ve written about before and regard as important to a happy retirement including this very aspect, hence the title. Read on. There may be other times in a person’s life when the possibility of making a new start presents…
Guess who’s driving the bus
Shall I write a Christmas blog? It’s a bit late, it’s gone, thank God. So it would be a brief reflection on Christmas then just to cheer everybody up if you’ve got those post-Christmas blues, which I haven’t, glad to see the back of it really. And before you say that every day is Christmas…
Retirement, Radio 3 and a world with no adverts
I tried listening to Radio 3 on Monday morning as I drove to my winter pruning course, more of which in a later blog. Around the house and first thing in the morning when we’re in bed, we usually listen to Classic FM but the bloody adverts drive me mad. So we’ve been threatening to stop listening…
Is reading in bed in the morning an OK thing to do when you’re retired?
We recently visited some fellow retirees. We made a shocking discovery about how they used their retirement time or some of it at least. I will tell you now and you may be the judge. They read in bed in the morning. This is the second set of friends who have ‘confessed’ to this retirement…
In retirement for Heaven’s sake keep your shape
In retirement it’s important that we keep in shape. Aha, you say, he’s talking about keeping fit and active and, as we know, doing these things, as we get older, makes very good sense. Problem is, I’m not talking about the physical health side of retirement in this blog. I’m writing about keeping mentally in…
A Broad and Balanced Retirement
Well-being in retirement has been a continuing theme in this blog. It actually forms a category on its own, so highly do I tend to regard it as a goal for retirement. It’s a simple enough concept but inevitably one that means different things to different people. Worse still, any close examination runs the risk…
Retirement and being in control
In my retirement life I probably read more of the weekend’s papers than I used to. I was reading an article by David Mitchell in last weekend’s Observer. He writes a weekly column in The Observer, he has also written a book and I imagine that was why, this week, he was being interviewed as…