Today is my first retirement anniversary and it feels great! Deciding to retire was an amazingly good decision for me, much better than I’d hoped for and I had high hopes – although there were a few weeks of continuous rain over winter when I consider moving abroad for the...
Despite all the planning I did retirement has taken me somewhat by surprise, I’d planned to do a lot more, to learn new skills, travel more widely, decorate the house from top to bottom, but it’s not been like that. Instead the activities that I was already doing have just...
It’s hard to remember what a life at work was like now, I’ve adjusted to a new pace of life and that life has more than expanded to fill the time available. When I first retired I made the mistake of trying to pack to much into my weeks, It...
I’m just past the one month mark in my retirement and just moving out of the – I’m on holiday – phase and moving into the – rest of my life – phase. It’s a slightly disconcerting feeling, but a hopeful one. During the first month I took some concrete...
I’ve just completed my first full week of retirement and my first impression was that not much had changed. I’ve been winding down for years and the last few months while recovering from a bad flare involved very little work. My first impression then was that this first week had...