Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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What’s top of my mind: my ankle. Just before Christmas I went and had my first mole mapping. As a fair-skinned person living in Australia, this is something that you absolutely should do every year once you reach a certain age, so it was my turn to start. “How are the moles on your back?” […]
What’s top of my mind: Getting the house valued. A couple of days ago I received a random text from a real estate agent asking if I would like her to pop in and give an estimate on the house, as she was going to be in my street doing the same thing for a […]
What’s top of my mind: Not a great deal. Some unkind people might say that this is nothing unusual. Where I’m going: Nowhere. I’m going to enjoy a few days of absolute nothingness before Christmas preparations start to get crazy. I have a few things to get done, but this is basically a quiet, gentle […]
The next excursion on my “use up the voucher I got for Christmas 3 years ago” was a half-hour drive around the Botanical Gardens. Now obviously I wasn’t expecting this to be the most wildly exciting 30 minutes of my life, but it was actually a nice way to spend a beautiful sunny day in […]
What’s top of my mind: Getting back into the groove of retirement. 2021 was the year that I didn’t work a single day. I loved it. Then, as you know, I was drawn back into the teaching world, where the concerns of the school and the students are paramount and you spend lots of energy […]
First up, apologies for being a day late again. I just wasn’t in the zone for writing a blog post yesterday. I was too busy buying Christmas presents and booking another holiday… What’s top of my mind: How nice it is not to have to go to work. I don’t know about other jobs, but […]
What’s top of my mind: My lounge room. Today I picked up the carpet offcut/rug that I ordered a couple of weeks ago. (This section is a copy-and-paste from the frogblog, so if you’ve already read it, jump to the next answer.) My sister Kate suggested this, as it’s much cheaper than buying a huge […]
What’s top of my mind: I’m throwing a party! While I was away, I had a birthday, David 29 has turned into David30, Evan26 is now Evan27 and Mum had her 83rd. So, because I’m an idiot, I invited around 30 people over to mine to celebrate. This of course means that the house and […]
“Colchester has seen better days,” said Scott as we picked our way through the shopping mall in the centre of town. I nodded in reply, keeping a tight grip on my iPhone. There were quite a few dodgy-looking people hanging around. However, once we got the stuff from the chemist that Scott needed to fight […]
Today is the last full day of our tour. It’s a day in Dublin, with four major stops. The first was a museum called EPIC, which is all about Irish migration across the world. To be honest, I wasn’t really looking forward to this because it sounded a bit dry. But this museum is really […]
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