Retirement worries, for better or worse? So after several retirement blogs looking on the sunny side of (retirement) life let me get back to what I’m best at – worrying negativity. That’s two separate concepts by the way, not suggesting that worrying itself is a negative exercise, if you follow my drift. Some people would…
Category: Well being
Have I lost my retirement tribe?
Retirement tribe. I chose this retro retirement blog more or less at random as I was short of time on Sunday having returned from working hard at the vineyard. It seemed very relevant as a topic back in 2014. Not sure about now. I’ll read it carefully and decide. If you’ve read other blogs on…
Retirement stress revisited and small business update
Retirement stress revisited. Retro retirement blog from 2017 after missing last Sunday.I’m revisiting this one to remind myself that although life feels fairly stressful right now, things were much worse five years ago. Let’s hope posting it provides the comfort I’m hoping for. We haven’t given up yet but, by thunder, it’s close. The last…
Retirement weather
Retirement weather, a changeable topic. Much under-rated as a retirement topic is the weather in the UK. Last week we were working in the vineyard in our T shirts and vaguely thinking about complaining because it was too hot. Ha. Thursday morning (only yesterday to you, today to me) we wake up to the proverbial…
Retirement and levelling up
What is retirement and levelling up exactly? I will try and explain/ We’ve not been down to my hometown in Derbyshire for about 6 weeks mainly because they have been digging up the street and parking, which is usually a problem, has been impossible, or so reports from my neighbour have informed me. It (the…
Retirement and legacies 2
So retirement and legacies. I know I suggested in a recent blog that I had written enough about friendships for now, but I’ll just say one more thing. To misquote Oscar Wilde, if there’ one thing worse than a friend who doesn’t listen it’s a friend who does listen and then quotes back to you…
Retirement and old friends
Retirement and old friends. As has become my slight habit of late, I’m putting out this retro blog connected to my most recent one on the subject of friendships. This one from March, 2017 and a slightly broader view of friendships in retirement. Same location though, Sandsend on the Yorkshire coast. Maybe I’ve got slightly…
Retirement and friendships 2
Retirement and friendships. What happens to friendships as we grow older? I suppose the answer should be something along the lines of, well they simply endure (that’s why it’s a friendship) or even, they get better with age. Something to do with understanding and valuing your friends’ strengths and even their weaknesses and the warm…
The act of retirement de-cluttering
So retirement de-cluttering. If you’re one of nature’s born collectors verging on the psychotic hoarder, that’s me by the way, then you might wonder why the act of decluttering, sometime known as dieting for the soul, should give me such pleasure. Mrs Summerhouse as well but then she isn’t really a clutterer in the first…
Retirement frustrations 3
Does life get more frustrating as you get older? Do retirement frustrations become more common? My mobile phone is broken. Now you know you’re in trouble when you can’t even define what broken means. I seem to have sat on it and broken the screen. Well that’s clear enough yes, but it’s been broken like…