Guest post – not retiring, more like rewiring

Stephen Marsden
Stephen Marsden

Recently I had the honour of meeting Stephen Marsden while we were visiting Hannah in North Wales.  Quickly it seemed we were on the same wave length in a number of different ways, although Stephen is a few steps ahead of me in terms of retirement.   Continue reading “Guest post – not retiring, more like rewiring”

Getting in the retirement mindset

autumnal landscapeEven though I have 10 or 11 weeks to go before retirement, I’m already getting in the right mindset and I LIKE THIS!  Here’s a few things going on:

Budgetting

This is something Rachel and I have always done quite well and we are finding that it crops up in our conversations quite regularly.  In particular: Continue reading “Getting in the retirement mindset”

Three months to go!

chocolate to celebrate
chocolate to celebrate

We really know how to celebrate in style!  Today is the day I have handed in my resignation and we decided to celebrate with a bar of chocolate.  Just three months to go!

I wrote the letter last night.  Today at work I scanned it so I could send it by email to my manager.  I left it a couple of hours before I wrote the covering email and hesitated a little more, just wanting to do the right thing.   Continue reading “Three months to go!”