Retirement

[JasonPalmer]

My mother in law volunteers in a charity shop one day and two days at a national trust place, in the gardens. While on a walk with a walking group today we bumped into an old lady walking with sticks who said she used to walk in the lake district but now 94 and just getting to the end of the street is tiring. I suppose it depends what your physically able to do.

[vinteuil]

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... when I were a lad, aged about eight, my mother asked me and my brothers (then twelve and fourteen) "what we wanted to do when we grew up" - the eldest said, 'I want to join the RAF'; second son said 'I want to be a pop star' - she turned to me, and I said 'I want to retire'. (I achieved my ambition when I was 42.)
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[antongould]

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... when I were a lad, aged about eight, my mother asked me and my brothers (then twelve and fourteen) "what we wanted to do when we grew up" - the eldest said, 'I want to join the RAF'; second son said 'I want to be a pop star' - she turned to me, and I said 'I want to retire'. (I achieved my ambition when I was 42.)
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well done indeed vints

[eighthobstruction]

well done indeed vints

Yes, happily my partner [now ex] was a consultant psychiatrist so I became a bit of a kept-man....making a bit of pin money from making art and ceramics....My fathers death before the retirement age [62), pushed me to rage (wanting to throw his bulk bought gold watch pwwsh back at his firm -Rolls-Royce), so I was never a company man ;vowed never to be one. If I retraced my steps there might be a few ££ of pension from some of the places I stayed a year or 2, but I have never bothered collecting it....every attempt at voluntary work over the last few years has been sometimes fruitful for others (charity) , but have not been particularly satisfying for me, and usually make me over tired and anxious. Retirement proper lets say (60), I have used to educate 'all' the gaps in my knowledge, and thanks to the wikipedia as a starting point I go down many a rabbit hole, be it The Wars of the Roses, American History and Politics from 1576 onwards, things like that, on and on (most of which my dyslexic cognition only allows me to keep 20% of it....) ....I could go on but I think that is my alloted slot....

....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iAijOkxbo0

[french frank]

8thO - you're pure gold!

(I hear you've been meeting up with an erstwhile treader of these boards. I hoped to do so next weekend, with one other as a trio of forum has-beens, but he was unable to make it to Wild Wales)

[eighthobstruction]

....yes popped in for a cuppa....I'm always afraid that my mixture of pseudo- erudition (or at least attempted quasi-intelligence) plus interesting left field banal twaddle tinged with a little verbal bravery and odd takes on eclectic life are not exceptable for the parlour....(considering, bar seeing small family now and again, I spend 99% of time on my own.. and have great deal of internalised twaddle pressurised ready to burst....))....and that my poorly constructed sentences/syntax and regular digressions are a difficult listen....Besides long winding diatribes where I forget the main perpetrators names and names of many other items....

[Serial_Apologist]

....yes popped in for a cuppa....I'm always afraid that my mixture of pseudo- erudition (or at least attempted quasi-intelligence) plus interesting left field banal twaddle tinged with a little verbal bravery and odd takes on eclectic life are not exceptable for the parlour....(considering, bar seeing small family now and again, I spend 99% of time on my own.. and have great deal of internalised twaddle pressurised ready to burst....))....and that my poorly constructed sentences/syntax and regular digressions are a difficult listen....Besides long winding diatribes where I forget the main perpetrators names and names of many other items....

You and your thoughts are surely much appreciated here, 8th. And I think I prefer that John Renbourn interpretation of a 16th century folk tune than the Vaughan Williams one I was made to sing as a 12-year old treble in the school chapel.