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  • DracoM
    Host
    • Mar 2007
    • 13000

    Keep exercising!!

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    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25241

      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
      My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
      Congratulations Pet.



      ( Hopefully you'll have the bookies on the run with more time on your hands).
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

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      • Joseph K
        Banned
        • Oct 2017
        • 7765

        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
        My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
        Congrats.

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        • Serial_Apologist
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 37933

          Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
          My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
          May you have many years to enjoy not being under the whiphand of a boss.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
            My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
            Bravo!!!!
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22225

              Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
              My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
              Congratulations. Welcome to the happy, busy throng!

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              • Edgy 2
                Guest
                • Jan 2019
                • 2035

                Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
                Good for you Pet.
                Keep active,doctor’s orders in my case to keep the under par ticker ticking (you can still listen to music while out walking).
                I definitely don’t have as much time to myself as I thought I would though.
                I’ve got a bit of a project going on whereby I’m trying to listen to every recording I own once before returning to any of them.Averaging 3 cds per day should take about 6 years

                “Music is the best means we have of digesting time." — Igor Stravinsky

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                • richardfinegold
                  Full Member
                  • Sep 2012
                  • 7795

                  Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                  My retirement day is here at last! I'm finishing tomorrow afternoon and will hopefully now be able to spend more time with my CDs and a mountain of books! Well, that's the theory anyway.
                  I am effing jealous. 4 years for me unless they show me the door

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12376

                    Thanks all. I'll try keeping as active as possible though might be a bit of an effort in the endless rain we are getting here. No dogs, though. I'm immovable on that one!

                    Richardfinegold, that's the worst when you desperately want to leave (and you always know when you are ready) but I felt that way for much longer and four years will go much quicker than you think.
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • Rjw
                      Full Member
                      • Oct 2012
                      • 119

                      I recommend swimming and yoga. They have certainly done me good. You never really want to do them but when you get home you feel so much better.

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 13035

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                        ... congratulations, Petrushka!

                        I've been retired for ages, and love it.

                        I've never felt the need for any exercise, apart from (non-strenuous) walking.


                        .

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          Congratulations Pet! Now we can see what you’ll be playing more often!
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • LMcD
                            Full Member
                            • Sep 2017
                            • 8792

                            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                            .

                            ... congratulations, Petrushka!

                            I've been retired for ages, and love it.

                            I've never felt the need for any exercise, apart from (non-strenuous) walking.


                            .
                            I'm very happy to confirm the efficacy of this strategy.

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                            • alycidon
                              Full Member
                              • Feb 2013
                              • 459

                              Congrats Petrushka. I thought the same when I retired 17 years ago. It hasn’t happened!
                              Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                              • Dave2002
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 18059

                                Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
                                I am effing jealous. 4 years for me unless they show me the door
                                I wanted to go early, but things didn't work out like that. In the end I actually stayed on for several months after I "should" have gone as I was asked to do some extra work, and it made some sort of sense to finish it - and have the extra money.

                                Some people I know seem to take on extra voluntary work, and that can be as demanding and tiring as "real" work. It can be rewarding, and may bring some of the social benefits of work, but don't do it if you won't like it, or are not motivated by the "cause" - whatever that is.

                                There are some good things about being retired, and some not so good. Enjoy the good things.

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