Don’t buy into this propaganda that in retirement you have to adopt 1001 hobbies and interests. My days alternate between doing sod all and bugger all. It’s lovely. Always put off until tomorrow what doesn’t have to be done today.
Don’t buy into this propaganda that in retirement you have to adopt 1001 hobbies and interests. My days alternate between doing sod all and bugger all. It’s lovely. Always put off until tomorrow what doesn’t have to be done today.
Absolutely the correct way of handling retirement. What's the point of it if you can't do things when you want to rather than when you are expected to?
You've done the right thing. It takes a while to get the hang of retirement. I'm still working on it. The hardest thing to do is remembering what day it is. What I'm working on is procrastination. I have achieved the ultimate level. But without any deadline, nothing gets done. I've tried lists. They don't work. The best pleasure is rolling them into a ball and binning them. But then, very little on the list matters anyway😊.
Between all the various interests I pursue in groups with others - patchwork/sewing, mosaic, dancing, garden club and all the projects I have at home and in the garden on my own or with OH and the dogs to walk and the beaches and so on to explore and then cats and hens plus the occasional days or hours of doing not-a-lot if I feel like it, I don't understand how I ever found time to go to work!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
You've done the right thing. It takes a while to get the hang of retirement. I'm still working on it. The hardest thing to do is remembering what day it is. What I'm working on is procrastination. I have achieved the ultimate level. But without any deadline, nothing gets done. I've tried lists. They don't work. The best pleasure is rolling them into a ball and binning them. But then, very little on the list matters anyway😊.
If you watch any of the emergency ambulance programmes you may notice that they often ask people who have suffered a head injury what day it is. Most of the time I have to think about that, and if they asked me the date more often than not I wouldn't have a clue without looking at my watch. My wife still works 4 days a week and if she changes her day off I'm completely buggered for knowing what day of the week it is. All that without a bang on the head
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Absolutely the correct way of handling retirement. What's the point of it if you can't do things when you want to rather than when you are expected to?
It takes a while to get the hang of retirement. I'm still working on it. The hardest thing to do is remembering what day it is.
What I'm working on is procrastination. I have achieved the ultimate level. But without any deadline, nothing gets done. I've tried lists. They don't work. The best pleasure is rolling them into a ball and binning them. But then, very little on the list matters anyway😊.
If you watch any of the emergency ambulance programmes you may notice that they often ask people who have suffered a head injury what day it is. Most of the time I have to think about that, and if they asked me the date more often than not I wouldn't have a clue without looking at my watch. My wife still works 4 days a week and if she changes her day off I'm completely buggered for knowing what day of the week it is. All that without a bang on the head