How long does it take to get use to retirement? Weeks, months, years? Does it take longer if it happens during a pandemic? Is it
I confess I’d not heard of The Salt Path until the day before we started our walk. We were going to walk a tiny section
It’s fast approaching the anniversary of my decision to retire. It was earlier than I initially planned but three months of a lockdown, working from
Seven months ago I retired from my full time career. I gave in my notice as we were emerging from the first lockdown of the
Last weekend I celebrated my 62nd birthday. Not necessarily in the way I would have wished but I’m hoping that after two birthdays in lockdown
I’ve now been retired for six months. I started writing this blog post sitting in my garden on the warmest March day since 1968. I
I am so inflexible. I struggle to touch my toes. I can’t place one hand over my shoulder and grasp the other from below. I
I’m now 5 months into my retired life. It would be an understatement to say that it is not what I planned. But then we
The one thing that has kept me sane during this third lockdown is exercise. It has kept me physically fit, socially engaged, albeit through a
Four months ago I retired after forty-four years of employment. It is not the retirement I planned. But our lives aren’t the ones we had