this is how Halfords treat a retired person makes me wish I wasn’t retired
Category: Well being
Retirement and kitchen renovation
I’ve gone back in time, as is usually the case for this retro retirement blog, but not as far back as I usually go, to September, 2016 in fact. This retro blog was attached to Friday’s blog and I read it and thought it fit rather well with the focus on IKEA in that retirement… Continue reading Retirement and kitchen renovation
Retirement blog: The key to it all
I confess the name of actor Ian McDiarmid rang no bells with me when he appeared in last weekend’s Observer colour supplement but I’ve started reading almost anything by old people and he is 77. He featured in the Q&A column. One of the questions he was asked was, what do you see as the… Continue reading Retirement blog: The key to it all
Retirement blog: Review those changes, how did we do?
I thought I’d share with you in this retirement blog one of my sleazy little secrets of retirement. Can you imagine, as a working person, admitting to watching TV at 3 o’clock in the afternoon? Hardly feasible you say. And if I further admitted that this weakness took the form of a programme called, Escape… Continue reading Retirement blog: Review those changes, how did we do?
Retirement : a rich tapestry* as Carole King said
It was this retro retirement blog or one on coping with depression. I decided to go for the lighter version. This one first posted in January, 2014 but still relevant I think. It’s more about dentists I’m afraid. And I haven’t been to the dentist because of Covid for many months. Perhaps I’m missing those… Continue reading Retirement : a rich tapestry* as Carole King said
Retirement blog: No more all that jazz
In the words of the song by George Harrison, all things must pass. I believe quite a large part of my retirement life has recently done just that. It happened three weeks ago but I’ve only just been able to bring myself to write about it. That’s a measure of how painful or call it… Continue reading Retirement blog: No more all that jazz
Retirement blog: As you were
I don’t listen to the radio (the wireless when I was a kid) as much as I had planned in my retirement. I noticed I had set this as a goal in 2014 when I re-read my recent retirement blog about goal-setting, but I do listen a bit and I did hear this piece of… Continue reading Retirement blog: As you were
Goal setting and retirement
Retro retirement blog number 34 in the on-going series. It’s quite long, detailed and serious with some specific examples of what goal-setting looked like for me at the beginning of 2014 and early in my retirement. I don’t set goals any more although I generally have some broad ideas about my focus in a coming… Continue reading Goal setting and retirement
Another day, another dentist
A retro retirement blog from January, 2014. Quite amusing at the time and hopefully it’s retained its funny side seven and a half years later. If so you might even call it good retirement writing. ‘Yes, it’s quite infected. There’s a piece of bone sticking out of your gum, must have been quite painful’. Yep,… Continue reading Another day, another dentist
Retirement blog : More retirement adventures
More retirement tales of derring do. Kind of. Last Friday I missed the train. This has of late been a very rare event. Given that, prior to retiring, one of my goals was to take trains on a regular basis, to visit cathedrals as you ask, this rarity is a bit of a surprise not… Continue reading Retirement blog : More retirement adventures