First day of retirement

[Bozza64]

Re: First day of retirement

Enjoy every minute of it you have no doubt earned it, pop to pub, betting shop, takeaway watch city tonight, dont want to wear yourself out !!

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Dishes done ,hoovering done,dinner ready for tonight.How do women manage to do all of this and still work
It is going to be a long haul.
A lovelly day hopefully many more to come.

How old are you?

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Nope 66yrs old,one knee is knackered.
they did want me to stay part time but no xtra money.

Sorry just seen, good luck with it

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I think covid and furlough has resulted in so many earlier than planned retirements, people have realised there is more to life than work, I'll go in the next year or two.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Just completed my first year of retirement and I have had a fantastic time filling with old interests and activities and some new ones too.
You never know when you make be struck down with ill-health of when the Grim Reaper will call - so fill your boots and help those who support it at the same time, I say.
I have never looked back for one minute.
It's like Christmas every day

[Rontomuk]

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I retired 24yrs ago, after not missing one days work in the time I was working, I was always busy doing something mainly with my wife, day trips, weekend trips, looking after the grand children, till she past away last year.

Now at 89yrs old I have just joined a mans shed in Caerphilly and really enjoy the company of my new friends and then a few beers after.

[jeepster]

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I retired 24yrs ago, after not missing one days work in the time I was working, I was always busy doing something mainly with my wife, day trips, weekend trips, looking after the grand children, till she past away last year.

Now at 89yrs old I have just joined a mans shed in Caerphilly and really enjoy the company of my new friends and then a few beers after.

Hope i live as long as you,sorry about your wife but it looks as if you have a good social life hope it continues for a long time.

[Rontomuk]

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Thank you much appreciated

[Maurice Swan]

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Wow...cannot quite compete with Rontomuk, but the motto is....DO NOT stagnate...DO something!!!
It’s good to know how other contributor’s lives have gone......makes the board more personal.

In my own case....I retired (forcibly because of takeover....) in 2004 and officially in 2012. In the meantime I tried property development (failed...but still proud of what I rescued in an old barn on the heritage coast....)...then started a website Design company libertybs.co.uk...which I still run today...)

Sadly my wife of 40 years died very suddenly in January 2011. We always said that whoever was left must make a new life. This I did....no children by first marriage.....few years later I met and married a Thai girl less than half my age ....(yeah..right...)...and am now the proud dad of two fine sons aged 9.5 and 3.5 years.....!!! They keep me young – and I am lucky enough at 75 to be pretty healthy....and we are blissfully happy.

Living the life in the Dordogne in France, I am now selling my house....too big...too much land to look after.....but not stagnating. We plan to buy some land locally and build a new contemporary house more in keeping with our needs.
Life is certainly not one of complete leisure.....up around 9:30...read all news etc online with breakfast. Work around the garden and woodland until about 2pm..... then around 4pm....settle down on the front terrace with a good book and a few glassed of wine.....parfait..!

C’est la vie...!”

[RichardM]

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Wow...cannot quite compete with Rontomuk, but the motto is....DO NOT stagnate...DO something!!!
It’s good to know how other contributor’s lives have gone......makes the board more personal.

In my own case....I retired (forcibly because of takeover....) in 2004 and officially in 2012. In the meantime I tried property development (failed...but still proud of what I rescued in an old barn on the heritage coast....)...then started a website Design company libertybs.co.uk...which I still run today...)

Sadly my wife of 40 years died very suddenly in January 2011. We always said that whoever was left must make a new life. This I did....no children by first marriage.....few years later I met and married a Thai girl less than half my age ....(yeah..right...)...and am now the proud dad of two fine sons aged 9.5 and 3.5 years.....!!! They keep me young – and I am lucky enough at 75 to be pretty healthy....and we are blissfully happy.

Living the life in the Dordogne in France, I am now selling my house....too big...too much land to look after.....but not stagnating. We plan to buy some land locally and build a new contemporary house more in keeping with our needs.
Life is certainly not one of complete leisure.....up around 9:30...read all news etc online with breakfast. Work around the garden and woodland until about 2pm..... then around 4pm....settle down on the front terrace with a good book and a few glassed of wine.....parfait..!

C’est la vie...!”

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Some DNS changes needed

[Maurice Swan]

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How did that happen...must have been a temporary glitch...it's ok now....!!

[Organ Morgan.]

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I took up guitar playing. I mistakenly thought with practice, practice and more practice it would be inevitable I'd become half decent. I set fire to the poxy thing in the end.

I had thought either Dai Gilmour or Chet Atkins must be the greatest guitarist who has ever drawn breath, but there's a young lady who has a youtube channel who's so incredibly gifted I may have to have a rethink. Here's her latest upload.

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: First day of retirement

Wow...cannot quite compete with Rontomuk, but the motto is....DO NOT stagnate...DO something!!!
It’s good to know how other contributor’s lives have gone......makes the board more personal.

In my own case....I retired (forcibly because of takeover....) in 2004 and officially in 2012. In the meantime I tried property development (failed...but still proud of what I rescued in an old barn on the heritage coast....)...then started a website Design company libertybs.co.uk...which I still run today...)

Sadly my wife of 40 years died very suddenly in January 2011. We always said that whoever was left must make a new life. This I did....no children by first marriage.....few years later I met and married a Thai girl less than half my age ....(yeah..right...)...and am now the proud dad of two fine sons aged 9.5 and 3.5 years.....!!! They keep me young – and I am lucky enough at 75 to be pretty healthy....and we are blissfully happy.

Living the life in the Dordogne in France, I am now selling my house....too big...too much land to look after.....but not stagnating. We plan to buy some land locally and build a new contemporary house more in keeping with our needs.
Life is certainly not one of complete leisure.....up around 9:30...read all news etc online with breakfast. Work around the garden and woodland until about 2pm..... then around 4pm....settle down on the front terrace with a good book and a few glassed of wine.....parfait..!

C’est la vie...!”

Fait play, what a cracking story and life you have

[Maurice Swan]

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Ah Richard...yes I remember you work in IT!! It transpired that in the process.of changing nameservers to Cloudflare an 'A' record did not transfer correctly!!! All done now....

[William Treseder]

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I took up guitar playing. I mistakenly thought with practice, practice and more practice it would be inevitable I'd become half decent. I set fire to the poxy thing in the end.

I had thought either Dai Gilmour or Chet Atkins must be the greatest guitarist who has ever drawn breath, but there's a young lady who has a youtube channel who's so incredibly gifted I may have to have a rethink. Here's her latest upload.

Very impressive 👏👏