SearchArchives for: May 2006Session 57 - Liverpool - The Quality30th May 2006 Is there a better place in England than Liverpool? Are there any better people? Before I retired I was implementing new systems across the country and it always good to be in the Liverpool area. Training sessions were always better when scousers were in… more » Tags: retirement
Session 56 - No Article Today29th May 2006 It’s Monday morning and since retirement I don’t mind Mondays. As I have said before I just sit and watch everyone leave the village join the traffic queue and crawl to work. But it’s Bank Holiday Monday and everyone’s off. This is just another one of th… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 55 - Recruitment26th May 2006 A few years ago, before retirement, Richard and I ran a team of some twenty odd project people travelling around the country implementing a new Hand Held Computer System to over 2000 people.
Just as a matter of interest, if anyone out there needs someo… more » Tags: retirement
Session 54 - Cheap Music Downloads - £100 a Song!!25th May 2006 Yesterday afternoon I was downloading songs from iTUNES onto Christine's iPOD. I put eleven songs onto the iPod and so far they have cost a little under £100 per song. Can anyone beat this? Does anyone want to beat it. So how did it cost so much…?
It… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 53 - Shopping23rd May 2006 So what is it about women and shopping? When I need to buy something, I know what I want and where to get it. I go to that shop buy whatever it is and go home. I can't believe there is a man out there who would decide to spend a day shopping. With Christ… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 52: Buying Stuff19th May 2006 Christine thinks I’m getting more like Victor Meldrew every day. I think that being retired gives me more time to think about things. When I was at work I was simply too busy dashing about the country to take notice of most things but now, it’s different… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Sesion 51 - Bringing 'Dressings' Home18th May 2006 As I was saying on Tuesday, Christine is ‘Dressing the Rooms in the Garden’ with items we have collected on our travels. Nothing unusual about this as most people bring odd things back from holidays.
You see people getting off the plane with the big so… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 50 - Dressing the Garden16th May 2006 It’s Tuesday morning, everyone's back into a new week at work apart from us retired people. What a shame the weekend was so cold and wet, yet Monday to Friday last week was lovely and warm even hot at times. Nobody likes to see that do they…
We are havi… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 49 - Mobile Phones - Part Two12.05.06 As you will know from yesterday’s publication, when I retired from work I handed back my company mobile phone and had to make a decision about getting another one or simply using Christine's.
I went on to raise the question about health and mobile phon… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 48 - Mobile Phones - Part One11/05/06 Having got the garden knocked into shape I am having another day off to let my aches and pains subside a little and hopefully get back the use of my arms. The sun's shining, the temperatures good and it's one of those days when it seems good to be retire… suite » Tags: retirement
Catégories: Retirement Planning Session 47 - The Garden10th May 2006 We have been home from the Bahamas for six weeks now and made significant inroads into the house and garden refurbishment. The garden project has been the most challenging as all the work has been 'heavy'. I now have aches in places I didn't even know I… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 46 - Something for Afters Sir08th May 2006 I have gone on at length about spending four nights a week in hotels before I retired and how dreary this life became. To the people back in the office who occasionally got a night out at meetings etc. it seemed a great way to spend your life, but not wh… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 45 - Feeding the Birds05.05.06 As you will know I have spent some time over the past few days in Garden Centres. What amazes me most is the section on ‘Bird Care’, looking after the birds that fly around outside.
When and why did this become an industry? There is shelf after shelf of… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 44 - Sharing a Scone03rd May 2006 Over the Bank Holiday we found ourselves in two different garden centers looking for plants and structures for the new garden. Nothing wrong with this, lots of couples go out at Bank Holiday and do just what we were doing. The problem is, on reflection t… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 43 - The New Kitchen02nd May 2006 So how's the house coming on? Well there is still plenty of decorating to be done and still the garden landscaping to complete but the final major hurdle to getting our house back to normal is the new kitchen.
We're at the point where we need to get thi… more » Tags: retirement
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