I’ve set my goals for 2019. Have you? If you haven’t, you really should consider doing so. This is not about New Year Resolutions, albeit the process is similar. This is about you and where you want to be many years hence. Why do I need goals, I hear you say? You’re retired, you don’t… Continue reading My Goals 2019
Category: Health
Bless the NHS
In the UK we are so lucky. We have the National Health Service also known as the NHS. Free to all. Paid for by our taxes. In general, even if you are not resident in the UK, you will be treated, particularly if it is an emergency, and only later will questions be asked about… Continue reading Bless the NHS
2018 – Half Year Review
2018 is halfway through. Time to do a half year review. When I started this blog I thought I would focus on this quarterly. By default I do a quarter review on 5th April, because it is that tax year end in the UK, although I don’t always a September one – last year –… Continue reading 2018 – Half Year Review
Why do we get fat? Do Diets Help or Hinder?
Why do we get fat? A very good question. I don’t think anyone really knows or understands. There are so many different propositions around. Do Diets help or hinder? I have tried a lot of diets, and every time I end up the same size again. I am not alone. We get given so much… Continue reading Why do we get fat? Do Diets Help or Hinder?
Time Frugal
Time Frugal or to put it another way – Frugality of Time. What an interesting and thought provoking statement. I can’t take the credit for it. The term came from a Voluntary Simplicity post. We generally consider the word frugal to relate to being careful with money, and my 1982 version of the Oxford Concise… Continue reading Time Frugal
Retirement – The best 6 years of my life
On 28th October 2011, I said goodbye to the world of work. I had just turned 56. I couldn’t really believe I was walking away from a very well paid job, which I mostly enjoyed, but it had got very stressful (or maybe it was that I had ceased to manage the stress well!). My… Continue reading Retirement – The best 6 years of my life