I want to thank my dear friend, PW, for providing me with the topic for this Tuesday’s, retirement blog. True it’s a pity he had to die to do so but he was a man with a great sense of humour and I’m sure he would have appreciated the irony behind the gesture. He was…
Category: Well being
Retirement blog: A somewhat confusing summer-school, 2021
I’m really not sure what tone to strike with this retirement blog about last week’s summer school. It would be all too easy to focus on all the negatives but I’m going to try to tease out the plus points. Of which there were a number but which are all too easy to over-look. First,…
Retirement blog: Surprise
I suppose it is inevitable that the pandemic should bring about plenty of surprises. How could it not, it was new to us all. It’s true that our surprises have been of a fairly minor nature but they surprised us none the less. I’m not sure whether retirement itself is supposed to be a time…
Short Retirement blog: Musical challenges on the horizon once again
It’s Thursday morning and I was playing a few jazz scales on my guitar and at the same time idly wondering what I might write a short retirement blog about for tomorrow. I was a little stuck but then the answer was right here in front of me. I would write a blog about my…
Retirement : Busy, busy, busy
I’m skipping around again in my visiting past retirement blogs for suitable retro blogs. This one from June, 2015 is out of chronological order from previous revisited retirement blogs, but when I stumbled across it it seemed like an appropriate comparison with current blogs about how busy we are. This one quite shocked me. I…
Retirement blog about moving forward
I wrote in my recently posted 900 blogs blog that I sometimes got inspiration, if that isn’t too grand a descriptor, from the media. And sometimes that source throws up some surprising topics. For example in the case of this retirement blog, inspiration comes from the Lloyd’s bank advert on TV. It’s one of the…
Retirement blog about making difficult decisions
A few weeks ago I wrote a retirement blog about the difficulties I was having deciding whether to sell the Derbyshire cottage, aka my late mother’s house, in order, probably, to fund the building of our Colorado cabin*. This as opposed to using an Equity Release scheme about which I am becoming more and more…
Retirement blog: Am I helping? More about being creative when retired
Two year ago I wrote a retirement blog about the importance of the retired person continuing to be or becoming creative, I’d already written one on the same theme a year before that. In this latter blog I referenced David Byrne late of Talking Heads. I expressed some admiration for the variety of ways in…
Being a resilient retiree
Retro retirement blog number 21. Again I’ve stepped out of line chronologically. This one is from November 2014 but I chose it for the retro blog spot because I stumbled across it and the references it made to resilience and friends seemed curiously apposite. I need to remind myself of the importance of being resilient…
Retirement blog: If I had to choose between having friends and dogs
Have you been aware that this period of social isolation has raised some interesting moral dilemmas for the thinking retirement blog writer? It may be no more than having too much time to consider the small print of life. Or it could be that there are some genuinely important issues laid bare by this period…