Being Retired

[Aja]

Is there anything better than a Sunday night meal in the Colintraive Hotel then back to the boat for cheese and biscuits and coffee with the heating on. Not a cloud in the sky and temperature dropping quickly.
Donald

[mm5aho]

I'm still at that stage where I can't quite imagine what I'd do if retiring, but you are fast removing that impediment!

[claymore]

You need to indulge in a few thoughts for 'The Poor People' - give them a kindly thought for paying their taxes and supporting you.
Spare the odd thought for work colleagues still engaged in their travails - its amazing how quickly you forget them.

[wully]

You need to indulge in a few thoughts for 'The Poor People' - give them a kindly thought for paying their taxes and supporting you.
Spare the odd thought for work colleagues still engaged in their travails - its amazing how quickly you forget them.

I'm still working, having gone back after retiring for a year, but you'll have forgotten all about me

Still, I'm cheered by the fact that none of the little tax I currently pay is going to support pension fuelled racy lifestyles of the dissolute work shy auld fowk weaving between the various watering holes of points west and the utter hemhorroids.

Unless they are Danish auld yotties jakeys - and you don't count

[Aja]

I'm still at that stage where I can't quite imagine what I'd do if retiring, but you are fast removing that impediment!

Put simply you run out of time to do everything you have planned. I'm totally amazed at how fast the days are going. Today we got up, tidied the boat a bit - I cleaned around the waterline then had a coffee then cleaned the engine compartment out of odds and sods; coffee then it was lunch time - had that sitting out in glorious sunshine, then back to the mooring, ashore had chat with parents before heading home and tea the out to choir practice....

....and that's a quite typical day. Tomorrow might go round and wind up the grandkids

Donald

[aquaplane]

I came to the boat in June and have been home for two separate weeks since.

Done about 6/7 weeks sailing and loads of fettling.

I suppose it will have to end some time but there is no rush.

[claymore]

You need to indulge in a few thoughts for 'The Poor People' - give them a kindly thought for paying their taxes and supporting you.
Spare the odd thought for work colleagues still engaged in their travails - its amazing how quickly you forget them.

I'm still working, having gone back after retiring for a year, but you'll have forgotten all about me

Still, I'm cheered by the fact that none of the little tax I currently pay is going to support pension fuelled racy lifestyles of the dissolute work shy auld fowk weaving between the various watering holes of points west and the utter hemhorroids.

Unless they are Danish auld yotties jakeys - and you don't count

Cheeky young beggar....

[Aja]

I came to the boat in June and have been home for two separate weeks since.

Done about 6/7 weeks sailing and loads of fettling.

I suppose it will have to end some time but there is no rush.

I reckon from May till now I've had about two weeks in my own bed with the prospect of a wee sail up from Dublin to the Clyde and maybe a couple of weeks out in Greece with friends still to come. The downside is that to date we've only done about 600 miles in Aja which is well down on normal years. Sheena and I had imagined that we would spend the summer on Aja and just jink about but it seems that the draw to sail with others is too strong!

Donald

[lady_stormrider]

I came to the boat in June and have been home for two separate weeks since.

Done about 6/7 weeks sailing and loads of fettling.

I suppose it will have to end some time but there is no rush.

I reckon from May till now I've had about two weeks in my own bed with the prospect of a wee sail up from Dublin to the Clyde and maybe a couple of weeks out in Greece with friends still to come. The downside is that to date we've only done about 600 miles in Aja which is well down on normal years. Sheena and I had imagined that we would spend the summer on Aja and just jink about but it seems that the draw to sail with others is too strong!

Donald

Spare a though for those sailing widows left behind going to work, keeping the home fire burning and having various step-children (who can't move out) to live with.