SearchArchives for: March 2006Session 28 - A One Car Family31st March 2006 Planning retirement is not simple, you need to measure income against expenditure more closely than in the past. With Christine this is not easy. Today is the day I have to return my company car as it is now four months since I retired. This now makes us… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 27 - Where Does the Time Go?30th March 2006 Being retired must give me a lot of extra time. I have taken out of my average week at least 20 hours of driving and 40 hours of work. So where's it gone? I still have a list of jobs in the Black Book.
I have just spent a couple of hours pondering where… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 26 - Finding Socks29th March 2006 Being retired creates the opportunity to do things you never had time for in the past. I could invent something new or make a scientific breakthrough but that's a little unlikely as I didn't do science at school. So what could I usefully turn my hand to?… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 25 - Breakfast28th March 2006 You will be aware from reading my Blog that I have just retired having spent the last ten years or so living in hotels Monday to Friday. Adjusting to life at home with Christine is proving troublesome for us both. I apparently have become Victor Meldew,… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 24 - Retirement Part 2: Retirement Proper27th March 2006 Back home to Retirement Part 2, the real part, everyday at home with Christine - lots of 'we' time. The holiday is over we now need to organise ourselves for the future.
With this in mind 'we' decided to do the supermarket shopping on Saturday morning.… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Sesion 23 - The Journey Home24th March 2006 As you know I'm returning to the UK today after a long break in The Bahamas after Retirement. So was the journey home simple and straight forward? Well ask Christine.
During our stay with Alex and the grandkids Christine has been making trips to the Hom… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Sesion 22 - Return to the UK22nd March 2006 If you've been following Retirement Blog, you'll know that I've been in The Bahamas for the past 9 weeks, following my retirement. If you don't know any of that then you haven't been reading my Blog and I suggest you start from the beginning at Session 1… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 21 - Problem in Paradise: The Vacuum Cleaner22nd March 2006 The end of Retirement Part 1 has arrived. Today is the day our stay in the Bahamas comes to an end and we must make the weary journey home. Christine and I have had nine weeks here with our family to adjust to life after work and it's hard to believe tha… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 20 - Hobbies: Watercolours21st March 2006 Back to hobbies again. As you know whilst at work I have only been home with Christine at a weekend which has left very little time for anything other than 'we' activities. Now I have retired I need to utilise the spare time so to jump in at the deep end… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 19 - View from the Bahamas - The Jeep20th March 2006 When we arrived in The Bahamas for our extended stay with the family to help with the transition from working-Keith to retired-Keith, Alex gave us the Suzuki Jeep so we could potter around the island by ourselves. Now bear in mind that Christine has been… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 18 - Hobbies: Fishing17th March 2006 When it became clear that I was to retire I decided I needed to look at hobbies. For ten years or more I had worked away all week and spent my weekends at home with Christine so this left very little time for hobbies and I realized that I had in fact no… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 17 - View from the Bahamas - The Trip16th March 2006 As you will see from yesterday’s publication I was on a field trip to Harbour Island. Not for pleasure of course simply as research for my Blog so that I can share my thoughts with you all. The Editor decided to publish an article in my absence suggestin… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Panning Session 16 (Postponed)15th March 2006 Keith was unfortunately unavailable to make the deadline for today's installment as he went here:
Pink Sands beach, on Harbour Island, one of the 10 finest beaches in the world
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The Bo Hengy ferry runs between Nassau and Harbour Island daily.… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 15 - View from the Bahamas 2 - Stress14th March 2006 You should all be well aware that I am in The Bahamas enjoying a couple of months or so with my family following retirement. Today the temperature is in the mid 80s, a tad warmer than back at home I believe and as I sit round the pool I get to thinking a… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 14 - Compatibility13th March 2006 Having been retired for over three months I am now beginning to realize the size of the change required to move from being home only at a weekend to full time life with Christine. As I sit and reflect I ask myself are we compatible , where do our interes… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 13 - Benefits of Old Age10th March 2006 Money seems to be going out very quickly now that Christine has mastered the web and how to make transactions. So in a spare moment I decided to review the budget and this got me to looking at the benefits we get from being over 60 and retired. By the wa… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 12 - Project Management09th March 2006 If you are following this Blog you will know that Christine and I are in the Bahamas having a break following my retirement from Project Management, giving me time to reflex on the past few months. It is also worth noting at this point that up to two yea… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 11 - Loss of Holidays08th March 2006 As anyone who is keeping up knows, we are sitting in The Bahamas with our family enjoying a long break following retirement. The sun is of course shining, the beers are cold and the pool and the ocean are warm. Sitting here on the terrace gives me time t… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Panning Session 10 - "I's and We's"07th March 2006 I’m in the Bahamas sitting on Alex (my daughter)'s front terrace overlooking the ocean sipping a vodka and cranberry juice talking with Christine about things we can do when we get home now we have retired. We can do, that’s the issue.
I was beginning t… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 9 - View from the Bahamas 106th March 2006 It is important to plan the transition from work to retirement carefully. It is easy to fall into the slippers to the shops routine,Lorraine Kelly, Buster and all day TV. So when I knew I was to retire I made my plans. Leave work on a Friday the next Wed… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session 8 - Expanding Knowledge03rd March 2006 At the point of retirement we were also coming to the end of a major expansion and re-build at our cottage. We are now left in the position where I need to decorate every room and I do mean every room. No room escaped the builder.
What I don’t know at… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session Seven - Organising Time - The Black Book02nd March 2006 For ten years after being recruited by Richard into his team I had a series of Black Books. Everything I needed to do or remember was in the Black Book. Notes from every meeting I attended (and these occurred daily), every phone call, every conversation.… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Retirement Planning Session Six - Additional Costs of Biscuits and Shampoo01st March 2006 Following retirement, budgets need to be planned carefully so whilst on the subject of hotels there’s the matter of the ‘freebies’ to be accounted for. I no longer get the coffee sachets, tea bags, shampoos etc. which if you bear in mind ten years at fou… more » Categories: Retirement Planning |
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