Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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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 […]
“On the coast, you will travel to the Cliffs of Moher. Braced against the ocean, on the coast of County Clare. Here you will stand on the dramatic 702ft (214m) high and 9 miles (14km) long cliffs, a Wild Atlantic Way signature discovery point, to gaze out on the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean.” This […]
Oof. Sunday was a funny sort of day. By now, London had sweltered through a full week of over 30C temperatures and everyone was over it. Corinna, her flat ate Michelle and I listlessly dragged ourselves around the apartment, before finally deciding that Corinna and I would go to Wait rose, the supermarket around the […]
First stop of the day was Kensington Palace. I wasn’t terrifically excited about seeing this, but it was a convenient thing to see in the morning, before I made the trek to see the next thing on the list in the afternoon. I had a ticket for 10AM. As I was walking across the park […]
At last I’m back! Long time readers would know that I’ve always wanted to go to England. I’ve always loved the history of the place and read everything I could about it. I planned my trip to the UK and Europe when I was 15, but due to being all-too-practical in my younger years … […]
Last week I knocked back a day of teaching to have lunch with an old friend. I’ve known Max since Evan26 was Evan2. Back in those days I was struggling to keep my head above water financially, while Max was single, with only one son who lived primarily with his mother. In other words, his […]
What’s top of my mind: Making sure everything I need to do is ticked off before I go. Monday night after work I took the dogs to the vet to get medications for Jeffrey to last for the time I’ll be gone. He’s on prednisolone for his grass allergies and on a heart pill. Poppy […]
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