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Still Breathing
Yes I'm still here, its been so long since my last post I thought this account had been closed but surprisingly it hadn't.
It's been six years since I retired from work, the writers block is easing a bit, but nothing like the full flow it used to be. I still spend most of my time gaming, but since Covid in 2020 I am largely housebound. Oh I'm ( Read more... ) -
Retirement: Year One
I have just hit the mid point in my first official year of retirement. Its nothing like I expected it to be. I still haven’t regained my old energy since the illness hit me in November 2016, I play games all night and sleep pretty much all day punctuated with brief periods of shopping for food, preparing and eating said food occasional ( Read more... ) -
Same Old, Same Old
It has been nearly a year since the last time I wrote anything here. I am surprised to find my account is still open or hasn't been made inactive.
I am still retired not working, first pension payment now less than a month away. Aside from transcribing a story I wrote some time back and some light editing my writers block seems to be firmly in ( Read more... ) -
Life is Finally Good
Retirement is wonderful. No calls on my time. Eat when I’m hungry. Sleep when I’m tired. Rise when I am no tired no longer. I wash and dress and putter all at my own pace. Do a few chores. Occasionally I wander out into the world and buy food. That feels like the least real part of my life. These days I mostly live on one meal a day. I have the odd ( Read more... ) -
Limbo
As we speak I am trying to arrange to retire when none of the official bodies seem to want to let me. Isn't this kind of up to me? Why should we allow governments and the like to make these choices for us? Is it unreasonable to want to give up work and have some quality of life at 53 while I am still mobile and in reasonably good health to enjoy it ( Read more... ) -
Christmas is coming!
Once again the year has turned and it only seems like five minutes since Christmas 2015 ( Read more... ) -
Next Steps and New Horizon's
I have now officially retired from work. What's next you wonder? Well so do I. It's going to take some thinking about. Thankfully I now have all the time in the world to do so ( Read more... ) -
Numbers
20,494 - Yep, that's how many visits my site had, it was beautiful while it lasted, but its over now. I just finished dismantling it and all that was left was the invisible log in page. I tried to cancel the site to remove it completely but - of course - that just took me to the pricing page to try and sell me a plan that I can't afford and don't ( Read more... ) -
End of an Era: The Last Post
Ladies and gentleman, it pains me to say it but my website is closing at the end of August 2016.
I’ve had fun there and I hope you have too, but Moonfruit’s decision to begin charging for my free website has come at entirely the wrong time in my life, when I am about to have to make some drastic changes which will entail cutting back on the ( Read more... ) -
Little Things
Christmas is just around the corner with all the folderol that goes with it and that got me thinking. It’s been sometime since I last wrote here so I should rectify that.
I first set out to write this blog a couple of years back when I was more prolific but like many other good intentions, while not exactly paving the way to hell, they do get set ( Read more... )