Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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What’s top of my mind: I’m so glad I retired! This is the first day back at work after the summer holidays for Victorian teachers. I woke up early in solidarity, but I can’t tell you how glad I am that I’m not having to trudge off to McKinnon to spend all day at work, […]
Last Sunday, Dad was rushing to the back door to get out to the garage when he tripped over Mum’s walker (which was where she always leaves it) and broke his hip. He’s currently in hospital with a matching pair of hips, as he broke the other one a few years ago. He’s like the […]
As this is supposedly, a FIRE blog, even though it’s now a ‘watch how Frogdancer Jones does retirement’ blog, I thought I’d tot up the travel costs for the road trip I made with my friends from Latvia and then when I was on my own. When Liga first contacted me with the news that […]
What’s top of my mind: Not a great deal. I’m ererging from that foggy week between Christmas and New Years, where everything blurs together and it’s like you’re in suspended animation. Not going to lie – I’ve been enjoying it. Where I’m going: Absolutely nowhere. Considering the crazy year of travel I have lined up […]
I have a week at the resort, so I thought I’d spend 3 days lazing around, 3 days racing around to see the mountains and then I’d go home. So naturally, I woke up to pouring rain on the first day of my intended racing around. But you know? I didn’t care. Retirement has given […]
After a cup of coffee and a Sad Brecky, I packed the car and was on my way. It was a late start, as this was only a short hop of 307 km to Barkly Homestead. I would have driven longer, but Eve, my ex-truckie fried from the September trip, kept mentioning it like it […]
We woke up to rain the next morning. How lucky – imagine if we were trying to bushwalk in the rain? It would have been miserable. As it was, we packed our bags, Liga and I had some Latvian hazelnut chocolate as a snack – Liga2 had had the forethought to save a slice or […]
Yesterday I took Scout down to the beach. We’ve been avoiding it since she had a lump removed from her back a week ago, but it’s healing nicely and her little jacket hides it away from the sand. We arrived around 10:30, just when the classes at my old work would crowd through the halls […]
Look at the colours of the rocks up above Standley Gorge. This was my first hint that I might be going to see something special. First off – crisis averted! My bus buddy is Eve, a lovely woman from Canberra. She’s had an interesting life, having done farming, truck driving (she can back up a […]
What’s top of my mind: How lucky I am. This photo is from yesterday, when I asked Georgia if she wanted to come to the beach with the Little Woofs and me. It was a crisp and clear winter day, just perfect for a beach walk. In years gone by, I would have been in […]
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