A somewhat ambivalent reintroduction to the world of hotel stays. The first since February 2020, but before these lockdowns, a common part of our retirement lives. Probably 3 or 4 stays per annum, more if you include the traditional Irish holiday. Of these two contradictory factors it was the absence of stays rather than the…
Category: Well being
A shortened Friday Retirement blog : Old values, new values, same thing?
I mentioned we were planning a trip down to our Derbyshire place in a recent blog. Well, here we are and I’m writing this sitting on our IKEA sofa in the midst of all our old stuff left over from the house’s previous existence. It’s a nice house, a nice mixture of the old and…
Retirement : too much to do / taking too much on?
Retro retirement blog number 17. In a slight break with tradition I’ve jumped forward to February 2015 with this retirement blog about taking on too much. Given my recent blog about being a bit over-loaded I thought it might be interesting to compare this last one with this one 6 years ago. Reading the 2015…
Retirement blog and the dubious attractions of a beach hut
I can’t think why I didn’t write about this as a retirement blog topic before. I mean it’s such an obvious retirement topic and not a mention in over seven years. At least I don’t think so although it’s always possible I’ve done it and forgotten about it. That does seem to happen quite a…
Retirement blog: a project takes off?
In a recent retirement blog about trying to be in control of my retirement life, I made, what I hoped, was a tantalising reference to a big decision I had made concerning our land and proposed cabin in Colorado. In a more recent blog I partially revealed the nature of this decision and linked this…
Retirement blog : Trying to be in control of your retirement – again
Let me start this retirement blog by referring back to the several projects I have set up in an effort to make best use of both lockdown time specifically, and my retirement life, as a whole. Then I’ll bring you up to speed on where I’m up to with them. I will tell you now,…
A short Friday Retirement blog: learning to drive / live again
It is deeply ironic that, only in my last retirement blog, I wrote about a possible fear of post lockdown activities like driving for example. And the very next day while driving the Defender(see above safely in the drive) for the first time in many weeks (I even had to recharge the battery and having…
Retirement blog : How will it be? Not sure.
I’m a big fan of the journalism of The Guardian and The Observer. I’d have to be to continue paying £3.20 each, every Saturday and Sunday for a decreasing content and an unhealthy bias in certain areas. Similarly I pay an unknown amount for The Guardian on-line* which I never read (I don’t like reading…
Retirement blog : the grass isn’t really greener
I am, by my own admission, a grass is greener type of person. I’ve written about it before and I regard it as a definite weakness of my character, which is quite serious isn’t it? I am always thinking of what’s to come rather than what is. I do not live in the moment, not…
Retirement Blog: Betwixt and between. Variety, I need it. Confidence, am I losing it?
My comfort zone is proving somewhat elusive at the moment. That’s it over there, no over there, oh it’s moved, it’s over there now. Wherever it is it doesn’t seem to be right here and that’s for sure. Part of my problem is that I’m not really sure what it looks like, these days, this…