A COMEBACK OF SORTS...

Haven’t done one of these in a while-wonder if anybody still uses this particular blog site-or even looks at it.

Well I’m retired just  over 2 ½ years now-and not having to go to work is still a novelty and something  I still can’t believe.  There are a few things I have not done yet, like sitting up really late watching a movie, listening to the radio, logging into a chatroom and chatting to someone in some far off country (or even not so far), having a lie in until noon  and tramp round the house in my jammys like tony soprano until bedtime  (maybe  in the next week or two I might do that, read on) ,watch tacky daytime tv  (don’t think I’ll ever do that).

Things I DO do (but not enough) getting away for an impromptu long weekend (again this can be improved on soon)

I’ve just bought a house. Strangely at my age I thought renting might be better. I mean (seriously) if dementia should strike, that way the nursing home cannot grab my house to pay the costs, or the like.

Although I have a somewhat warped sense of humour-some elements of the house will be quite serious and somewhat “normal”-but in some parts, well it IS, MY house and I will do whatever I want. Even though I’ll be there on my own I am going to put an old worn (or I’ll make it worn) comfy armchair in the shed, if there is enough space a dartboard. A place I can go to get away from the world (and not hear anybody at the door)- after all a man needs his shed.

I’m def getting a couple of toys –a ps4 and maybe a little remote controlled car.

Some of my worries are relatively minor and really non-essential. Like how do I get the internet set up? Even a phone-assuming I decide to get a landline?

I’ll admit it, it’ll seem odd being in a house where I am the only one who is making the noise. I wonder how I will find not having to shut the door and slap on headphones so I don’t hear 2 other tvs blairing away. How long before I decide to redecorate properly? What’ll be the first mail order thing I get?

Mistakes will be made in getting stuff and doing things-forgetting things too I recon. But I’ll bounce back as always (I hope). For a start I don’t like the front door, the clothes line and I want to get a gate at the side up –if I can.

To be continued… but not checked or corrected…Some things never change...