How to Use a Bucket List to Plan Your Dream Retirement
How to map out what your future life might look like after retirement. Here you'll find suggestions for the types of items that you might like to include.
Retirement Life In The Year Ended 8 December 2024
Yes! I’ve managed a full week in Devon without having to visit my parents in Essex. I’ve relished staying put and being a proper homebird. And yes, I’m been quite productive. Here’s what I’ve been up within a ten mile…
From Plant Murderer to Green Fingers: Learning to Love Allotment Life
IF you’d have told me a few years ago that I’d embrace allotment life I would have laughed my socks off. For one I didn’t think that I was green fingered at all. I had strong evidence for this given…
How ‘Tiny Habits’ Has Improved My Retirement Life
I’m a big fan of Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, an American behavioural scientist. I can honestly say that it’s one of those few books that have changed my life. When I first read it I was still working but…
Retirement Life in the Week Ended 1 December 2024
Yes it’s been another few days of to-ing and fro-ing between Essex and Devon. Fingers crossed that it’s over soon although our solicitors say that my parent’s move is unlikely to be before Christmas. What do those anonymous bureaucrats get…
How to Manage Money to Prepare For Retirement
You’ll probably have a bit of time between deciding to retire and actually taking the plunge. For me and my partner Paul, that period was relatively short, about seven months. I’d worked out that we’d have enough to live on…