Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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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 […]
“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 […]
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