I have worked out how to get people visiting my retirement blog. I discovered it after posting my blog about my night with The Eagles. People googled, I guess, Eagles tour Leeds, and the poor sods ended up on my blog. So I now see another golden opportunity to increase my visitors by including as…
Category: Well being
Retirement : a time of love and hate
I will just say this, I’m retired and a fine example of a grumpy old git. I say this to set the context for what is to follow. Last night we went to see The Eagles at the Leeds Arena. Isn’t it marvellous how, in old age, you can’t remember their names even though you…
Adventures in the Dales
This is a blog about the continuing theme of taking risks, of being adventurous in our retirement years. Will I ever get it right? I must tell you about our meeting with the planners about our barn (see right) one day, that was an adventure and an expensive one at that, but, not today. I’m…
A walk through the simple things of life
I’ve been banging on recently about valuing the ordinary. The original impetus for this kind of thinking was that, in retirement, we simply don’t have the money to do any of the exotic things – travel, buying guitars, frequent eating out, that type of stuff, so we needed to take pleasure in the cheap side…
Yoga, dogs and the retired person
I haven’t written very much about the health side of retirement other than my diabetes blogs. And I haven’t taken any time to consider the exercise and good health component of retirement. Until now that is and then, prompted by an article a couple of days ago on The Huffington Post / AOL site which…
Carpes Diem?
There’s nowhere else I’d rather be – discuss. Complacency or contentment? Does retirement produce more of one than the other? Depends a bit what you bring to the party – what kind of person were you before you retired? These idle, indeed trivial, thoughts run through my head lying in bed early Saturday morning. I…
Is the ordinary all it’s cracked up to be?
Just as I was starting to feel comfortable with living a life of the ordinary, it (my comfort level) took a bit of a dive. There I was mentally lining up all my supporters and starting to feel OK about retirement. I assembled my back-up crew, I did this with a quick visit to the…
Phished out and Hacked off
I’ve made it at last, fame, I’ve been hacked (the image, right, below is as close as I could get to hacking). But yes, it’s fame of a kind. At least that’s how I’m choosing to see it. Otherwise I might be cross, no, this is an example of positive reframing at its finest. You…
There’s a second hand bookshop in Kirkstall which a retired person may frequent
I wrote recently in my blog about our financial challenges, if that be the word. These ‘difficulties’ led to a realisation – we were quite poor. In turn that we were going to be unable to travel to far distant lands on a regular basis and do generally exotic (i.e. expensive) things like build a…
Time to let Mr Angry out of his box – again
How very, very sad. Once again I have to say that this is not the blog I intended to publish but I’ve just watched (last night) the local news. A mistake some would say. What does this have to do with a retirement blog? Well I think it is something to do with having respect…