Category: Well being

Retirement blog about making the best of a bad job

It’s really quite strange where ideas for these retirement blogs come from. Admittedly there are obvious sources like the weekend papers as a couple of recent blogs have shown. But take this one, you might think that the ‘bad job’ of the title, refers to the current Covid situation. That seems pretty bad and by… Continue reading Retirement blog about making the best of a bad job

A short Friday retirement blog about having a philosophy of retirement

I think I’ve said recently that I sometimes wonder why I keep reading the Guardian and Observer other than out of a sense of loyalty. I’ve often felt it’s a paper aimed at a younger demographic than I. But this last weekend I had cause to revise my opinion, for this week at least. Typically… Continue reading A short Friday retirement blog about having a philosophy of retirement

Retirement blog : Nostalgia* not what it used to be?

Santiago, Chile - July 2, 2015: old Renault Model 4 in the street with flat tire and dirty

I imagine it’s inevitable that, as one gets older, one becomes more nostalgic, unless you had a difficult life of course then you’re unlikely to enjoy looking back. But assuming you’ve had what you might call an average life to this point, you know some good bits and some bad bits, then there is likely… Continue reading Retirement blog : Nostalgia* not what it used to be?

Retirement blog about winter coming on

I suppose it’s true that most ‘older’ people or retired people don’t like winter. I’m assuming this to be the case because we would all bugger off to Tenerife for our winter if we could, wouldn’t we? All that stuff about our blood getting thinner and feeling the cold more. We wear woolly socks in… Continue reading Retirement blog about winter coming on

Retirement blog, happy marriage and coping with clumsiness in retirement

This may very well be one of the strangest if not the strangest retirement blog I’ve ever written. I’ve actually wanted to write it for a long time but I wasn’t sure the ‘market would take it’. The sub-plot is, what is the secret of a happy marriage? Simple enough question but maybe not a… Continue reading Retirement blog, happy marriage and coping with clumsiness in retirement

Retirement blogs about ghost stories – do retired people read more of them?

If you’ve read these retirement blogs before, especially the ones during lockdown, you will know I’ve been buying a lot of books from Amazon. This is contrary to my usual policy of spreading my buying around but, under the circumstances, it was convenient. The books I’ve bought have been various – interior design, historical novels,… Continue reading Retirement blogs about ghost stories – do retired people read more of them?

Retirement blog : a simple solution to a very tricky problem?

Let me say right up front in this retirement blog, I’m not good at letting things go, even for money. I’m more than ‘happy’ acquiring items, collecting stuff, stashing it away, being an ‘aquisitor’, but as for giving things away or even selling them, I’m rubbish. Some deep-seated childhood insecurity I suppose. But, and there’s… Continue reading Retirement blog : a simple solution to a very tricky problem?

Retirement blog about staying middle of the road

There’s many a conceptual train of thought that would have remained safely buried in my brain had it not been for this virus business. I’ll use this retirement blog to give you one example. In the area of rule-following where would Mrs Summerhouse and I rank along a continuum of compliance? At one end of… Continue reading Retirement blog about staying middle of the road

Retirement blogs : now do I need my own tribe?

maslow's hierarchy of needs

It’s quite nerve-racking looking back at a retirement blog you wrote several years ago. But this is what I’ve been doing. I’ve been re-reading a blog I wrote in April, 2014. For the mathematically-minded that’s over 6 years ago, so a very early blog. The topic of this blog was retiring and losing my tribe.… Continue reading Retirement blogs : now do I need my own tribe?

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