I suddenly find myself with time on my hands following redundancy from the company I have been with for 28 years. The change is not easy to deal with so I need to do something to help make the adjustment. Counseling sessions with my local highwayman sorry counselor would probably help but the cost!!!


So I have decided on Retirement Blog. It will be a series of stories, or sessions as I call them, based on my experiences since leaving work - with reflections going back over the years.


I have tried to make them amusing and so to help this along I will never knowing let the truth spoil a good story, although everything is based on some element of fact.


Names have not been changed so I apologize in advance to my wife Christine who appears regularly in these articles along with my daughter Alex who lives in the Bahamas with her husband Dave and the two grandkids Joe and Amber. I also apologise in advance to friends and colleagues and anyone else who gets a mention.


But please remember to protect the innocent and the people still working things may not have been exactly as described.