Most of the time when I write here, I’m writing to the wider blog reading audience. For this post, I’m writing mostly to myself, as a kind of journal entry. Yesterday and today I had some health news and I wanted to jot down a few thoughts while it is fresh in my mind. Continue reading “Health news”
Month: August 2018
Trying to make our cars last a long time
One of the things I’ve been wanting to write about is trying to make our cars last a long time. While I have always leaned towards keeping a car for many years in order to make the purchase more cost effective, I have also become quite fond of some cars and have enjoyed keeping them for as long as I could. Continue reading “Trying to make our cars last a long time”
The magic of home made smoothies
I might be a bit sneaky here. I reckon Rachel has been quietly impressed at how I have quickly slotted into our frugal living. It seems she was a bit worried I would get a bit carried away in spending too much money now I have all this extra time to play with through buying some of these fancy-pants smoothies at truly fancy prices. So instead I’d like to mention the magic of home made smoothies. Continue reading “The magic of home made smoothies”
Our food glossary
In our house we seem to use an alternative language for some of our food, hence our food glossary. This works fine for us and there’s never any misunderstandings. Having said that, we do cause a few raised eye brows when we have some friends around and lapse into using our own language. Continue reading “Our food glossary”
The quickest of blogging updates
I seem to be as busy as ever so this is the quickest of blogging updates; normal service should resume soon! Quite a few things have been demanding my time over the last couple of weeks. All pretty positive but have all combined to distract me away from the keyboard. Broadly, they are: Continue reading “The quickest of blogging updates”
My first commission
Today I took my car down to the local Honda dealer, all very hum-drum and involved a new airbag (a recall, not an accident) and an air conditioning service. While this was being done I went to see Ian M who I have become friendly with over the last few years. When I worked for Probation I got to know him and came to like him a lot. Over the years he has hired me a few times regarding the training of interpreters. Continue reading “My first commission”
The case for early retirement
I thought it might be useful to outline, as I see it, the case for early retirement . This is partly on the back of conversations which I’ve had from curious friends, through to justifying it for myself. Continue reading “The case for early retirement”