Archives for: February 2007

Session 140 - New Beginning or False Dawn? Who Knows!


28th February 2007
Now I am not sure what has happened but I am not grumbling. It may have been something to do with Kev’s comments on the Blog, which Christine may have read in a spare moment between shopping, reading design magazines and thinking of jobs for me to do, bu… more »

Session 139 - Musn't Grumble


23rd February 2007
Life’s been reasonably quiet just of late, maybe this is what retirement should be like. No paintbrush, no garden spade, too much rain, too cold but there again we are never satisfied are we? This time last year Christine and I were having our ten week… more »

Session 138 - A New Sewing Machine


14th February 2007
Gardening, that’s something all retired people love doing. I know it is because it says so in all the books on retirement. Find a hobby they say and all I have seen recommend gardening. Why! It’s dirty, it’s hard work, it gives you back ache as… more »

Session 137 - A Present for Me?


13th February 2007
Here I am, sitting in the garden room, the heating is on a very comfortable 23 degrees, it’s 7.30am and I have a cup of Earl Grey and a Greg Iles book. Cars are beginning to pass on their way to work, the rain is lashing down, the outside temperature is… more »

Session 136 - Switchboard Operator


12th February 2007
Following on the theme of my last posting I have been giving a lot of thought as to why retirement hasn’t worked out the way I either expected or intended it to. As I have said before my intention was to take a long rest, play plenty of golf some crown g… more »

Session 135 - Only One of Us has Retired!


07th February 2007
So here we are back home again having a rest settling nicely into retirement. It’s Wednesday morning and I’m sitting in the garden room watching the queues of cars leaving the village full of people going to work. The heating is turned up, the garden roo… more »