SearchArchives for: June 2006Session 71 - My New Car30th June 2006 So Wednesday night Alex, Dave, Christine and I are sat in the Garden Room having yet another bottle of wine before we go down the pub again for our tea.
Fortunately the new cooker is still not working so Christine can’t cook anything yet. Joe and Amber… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 70 - The Arrival28th June 2006 So this is it. Alex, David and Joe and Amber the grandchildren arrive today. We have had this day as the deadline for our project to complete the refurbishment and re-decoration of the cottage following the major changes completed over the winter. When w… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 69 - An Alternative World Cup23rd June 2006 Being retired, even with all the work going on in the house has given me plenty of time to see a lot of the world cup. For the Bahamian readers that's a soccer tournament that the rest of the world is watching.
I have noticed that the cameramen are conc… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 68 - The Kitchen Continues23rd June 2006 The stress! I can’t cope! I‘ve seen retired people, they walk down the village for the morning paper in their slippers, they watch Fern and Lorraine and Richard and Judy every day and even have time to go down the garden centre and share a scone in the c… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 67 - De-Cluttering21st June 2006 One of my aims when I retired was to de-clutter the house. To get rid of all the things we don’t use anymore, drastically reduce the number of 'House Makeover' and 'Garden' magazines lying around the place and to organise the bill paying procedures by in… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Sesion 66 - It's K Day19th June 2006 In the words of The Bangles “It's Just Another Manic Monday”. No time to enjoy the benefits of retirement, no time to sit and watch the villagers go off to work, no time to walk up for the paper in my slippers. It’s K day: Kitchen day. The kitchen fitter… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 65 - Ironing Jeans16th June 2006 It’s Friday, another week gone, another week of furniture deliveries. Today Alex and Dave’s bed arrived from Torquay so everything is now complete and finished ready for them, with the exception of the new kitchen which should be fitted next week.
This… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 64 - The Golf Day14th June 2006 When I retired I wanted some ‘I’ time. Time to do things I wanted as opposed to doing everything as ‘We’s. Well yesterday was my first full ‘I’ day in the six months since I retired. It is surprising how quickly you fall into doing things together when e… more » Tags: retirement
Session 63 - One Forward and Two Back12th June 2006 Retirement's great! It’s Monday morning again, the sun’s shining again and once again it is good to see everyone off to work. And even better, following a lot of hard work during last week and over the weekend all essential decorating is complete with e… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Stories Session 62 - Changed Priorities09th June 2006 Priorities change when you retire. Take cars, for example. As you will know we have (or at least Christine has) the Clio, small car, plenty of miles per gallon, low maintenance costs. None of these were a priority when I was at work.
The company car pri… more » Tags: retirement
Categories: Retirement Planning Session 61 - Draft-Proofing the Outside Room07th June 2006 Six months into retirement. Six months at home with Christine and I now fully understand what it is I miss most about work. It is, of course, the people but probably even more importantly it’s the topics of conversation.
I could talk Six Nations with Ri… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 60 - The Clio's Mine!06th June 2006 So let’s think this through again. You retire from work, you wander around in your slippers looking for things to do, sit in the garden with a beer and watch Wimbledon and The World Cup on telly.
Sounds good but that’s not how it’s worked out. We now ha… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 59 - I Don't Understand02nd June 2006 During the first couple of weeks after my retirement I mentioned on the blog that Christine and I would be lucky to last six months, this despite it being our Ruby Wedding anniversary this year. The main reason of course being the total change in lifesty… more » Tags: retirement
Session 58 - Meetings with Christine01st June 2006 When I first retired and started being at home all day with Christine I suggested we needed to have meetings to organise our workload and use the Black Book to record our plans and list our jobs. At work I had used the Black Book for years and had a dail… more » Tags: retirement
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