General Chat

Have a lovely retirement both of you <3

Al the best to your OH on his retirement, Paula. :-) :-) :-)
I hope you will both enjoy your lives to the full, as we are certainly doing :-D :-D :-D

from Lynda, enjoying a beer in hot and sunny South Africa ;-) ;-) ;-) :-D

Thank you so much everyone for your comments, good wishes, and advice, we have both read them through a couple of times. We already lead quite a busy social life at the moment will be going a couple of holidays and two weekend breaks. We will take it as it comes. However, we have already been asked to baby sit, dog sit, (not at the same time) and join my sister and BIL at their Villa in Turkey.

Dear Wendy (TS). Both OH and myself have been in the same position as you,we are so lucky that we have each other now, life has been good to us, I think I am a little bit wary of making too many "plans".

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy both of you. You will love it but remember you never know how many more ACTIVE years you will have so get out and about whenever you feel like it. We didn't have the chance to do half of the things we had planned on doing when my late husband retired but we enjoyed what we had to the full.

Good luck to you both.

Wendy x

Enjoy your retirement Mr Paula - you've been given some good advice.

I do agree that it's important to have some sort of plan. It's all too easy to slip in to the 'there's always tomorrow" syndrome. ;-)

I have no idea how I found time to work :-)


nor why I kept on working for so long!

yep, I did enjoy working, I didn't "have" to ......... but retirement is so much fun :-)



Another tip we were given was to do all that you would like to do ............. travelling or whatever ....................... in the early years of retirement..


Don't wait ..........................


'cos you never know what is around the corner!


The person who gave us that advice, had waited .......... but then found he was too sick and fragile to do what he and his wife had planned for so long :-(

Happy retirement. I retire at the end of the year after 47 years and cant wait xx

Dear Paula

Hello


Hope your OH enjoys his retirement.

Draw up a list of what you would like to do together, then go for it and have fun.


Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth
xx

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Simples,as you say, Sylvia :-D

Same down my end ;-)

Happy retirement



I retired first, 14 years ago. OH didn't retire for another 3 years ....................... but he still has 2 offices out at the university, where he does the things he enjoys .....................

............. working as a Project Director (unpaid) for the botanical garden and being a "sounding board"

.............. some contact with students, especially those in the Opera Programme

............. writing a history of the Botany Department and Faculty for the upcoming 100th anniversary of the university. He's having a ball talking to people about when they came, and what they remember about the earlier faculty, stories etc :-)



I do find when he is home, that he is always checking up what I am doing :-(




Paula ............................... One piece of advice that we were both given when we retired, and which worked out really well, was the following ...............

arrange to be doing something very different on the first day of retirement (???Monday, in your case??) ........... that prevents the retiree from continually checking to see the time.

It could be as simple as arranging a trip out for lunch.

He does.....but he messes up my lovely kitchen :-|

We did agree that when he retires, which will be before me, he can do most of it as long as he learns to clean up properly :-D

Does he like cooking Kitty? :-D

How lovely, wishing you and your OH a very long and happy retirement.

I don't know when we will retire, my husband loves his work and has no immediate plans to stop.......and my retirement age keeps getting further away.

I found when my dear lad retired that he drove me bonkers for a few weeks:

Where are you? What are you doing? As I walked out the front door, he shouted 'Where are you going? . . . and so it went on.

Now, after 4 years, we live in domestic bliss - he has his interests, I have mine, but we sit and chat to eachother a lot and I love having him around, particularly as he enjoys cooking and I don't ;-) :-D

Happy days to you and your OH Paula - enjoy his retirement and having him around <3

Happy Retirement to you OH Paula <3 <3 <3

Here's hoping you have many happy years retirement together. Enjoy every minute. :-D :-D :-D

I recommend retirement to all who are thinking about it :-)

I hope you and your OH Paula have many wonderful days together <3

OH retired 14 years ago and I finished working 7 years ago and these last few years have been amongst the best we have had together. As others have said your OH will wonder how he ever had time to go to work.

Wishing OH a happy retirement. May you both have many happy years ahead and the good health to enjoy them.

Happy retirement to your OH and to you because you will be able to go out and about enjoying each other's company. It will be 14 years in August since I retired and my OH retired before me. I have not regretted a minute of it, love the freedom. We try and make one day a week our day for going out - to NT properties, gardens etc, Doesn't always work as other things need doing but in the summer months we manage it mostly.

Have fun. :-) :-)