SearchArchives for: September 2006Session 102 - The Flight to the Bahamas27th September 2006 We are off to the Bahamas. We booked a night at the Travel Inn at Gatwick so we could have a good nights sleep before getting up at 6.00am for our flight. So off to bed at 10pm, set the alarms and settle down. After seven hours of lying awake in bed toss… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 101 - Packing for the Bahamas26th September 2006 Packing! How can packing to go on holiday be so stressful, between them Christine and Virgin Atlantic caused me more stress than I have had since I retired getting on for ten months ago.
First of all we had to establish what you can and can’t take on th… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 100 - The Cottage is Finished (Almost)21st September 2006 It’s late September, the sun is shining, it’s actually hot and everyone else is at work. This is when I know we have it right. No stress, no worries and now just normal retirement to look forward to.
The last tin of Farrow and Ball has been bought and… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 99 - The Last Tin of Paint19th September 2006 What’s happened to all the time? Where did Monday go? It’s Tuesday now and I have a full day’s activities planned for today. But before I start today’s jobs I have decided to take a break and to reflect on where my time is going. I seem to have less time… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 98 - Pulses15th September 2006 As you will be aware, if you are a regular reader that food plays quite a starring role in this Blog. Christine and I have very different views on what a decent meal should consist of Christine being into healthy foods and me being more of a stodge type… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 97 - The Doghouse Skiffle Group13th September 2006 We have become groupies, that is if you can be groupies at our age or is that a preserve of the young. But never-the-less we have just been to our second gig in a month of the Doghouse Skiffle Group(DSG).
For anyone less than retirement age Skiffle is… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 96 - Pensioners Stress!11th September 2006 So we are back home, the Lake District and Full Cumbrian Breakfasts are a distant memory and it’s back to the wall paper paste and healthy food which has taken over my life.
Unfortunately Blogs have been a little thin on the ground recently mainly becau… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 95 - Grasmere07th September 2006 We are back from the Lake District. Christine and I have just had four great days in Grasmere to mark our 40th wedding anniversary. It has been great fun, plenty of walking between Grasmere, Skelwith Bridge and Elter Water about six miles a day, not too… more » Categories: Retirement Planning Session 94 - Kev and Me in the Lakes?01st September 2006 So there we have it. I told Christine about booking a break in the Lakes and she quickly gets excited and says “Brilliant, I have never been to the Italian Lakes, is it Lake Garda, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore, I need to go shopping, I have nothing wear”. I… more » Categories: Retirement Planning |
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