Retirement wish list

[Lazy Daisy]

My wish list --------- people often say that they would be bored at home all day. Not me, my dearest wish is time to spend on an allotment that had a greenhouse and a cosy shed complete with tv (for when it rained) cooker (to cook the fantastic produce I would grow), books upon books (for reference) a big comfy armchair (for when my back was bad from the digging) and even a sewing machine (my other wish is to get back to sewing). But it is all a dream, 6 years to go. Never mind I look forward to reading about other peoples experiences.

[Lazy Daisy]

[katynewbie]

 ;D

Ditto Daisy! The only thing I would add to the list is the whippet I intend to have, not fair to have a dog til then!

;)

[sally_cinnamon]

Are you guys telepathic?!?!  :o :o  It's like you read my mind!  My other wish would be a hammock with a big fluffy duvet for sleeping under the stars.  And some animals like cows and pigs - maybe I should retire to a farm...! ;D

[Lazy Daisy]

Aw forgot about the duck, chicken amd pig. Good idea aout the whippet had one for years. We were adopted by a stray Red Lakeland Terrier (in disguise) some years ago. He holds my heart now.

[bennettsleg]

In 33 years time I would like:
To be a good gardener
To have a laaaaaarge shed (and a workshop and an attic and a greenhouse a bit like an orangerie and and and)
To have windowsills for the early spring seed-push
To have better knees, ankles and spine than I am destined for
To be able to grow food enough for the year and be able to look at my plot with pride instead of "Oh.  Blimey. Right: Where to start"
To have time.
Oh, and one of those little, old-fashioned travelling kettles where you poke twigs into the burner bit at the bottom to boil the water. What are they called?

[MikeB]

My wish is that the OH realises that yes some things can wait until tomorrow

[Lazy Daisy]

Oh, and one of those little, old-fashioned travelling kettles where you poke twigs into the burner bit at the bottom to boil the water. What are they called?

They are called travelling kettles that you poke twigs into the bottom of.lolololol

[Curryandchips]

The Kelly Kettle ... ?

http://www.kellykettle.com/

[Lazy Daisy]

Didn't know they were Irish lolol

[Mrs Ava]

My mum tells me that as a mum, she will never retire!

So I figure when the kids leave home, altho I won't be in retirement, I will have more ME time.  So then I want to spend more time out.  Not only out on the plot and in the garden, but out exploring.  There is so much of the world I haven't seen!  So much of this country I haven't seen.  My dad died before retirement age, and they had just started to do a little travelling - now mum regrets not travelling sooner.  Whatever you wish to do in your retirement....don't wait....do it now!  Don't have regrets!


Sorry, was the anniversary of the old boys death a couple of weeks back and things like that play on my mind..... :-\

[Tulipa]

Emma, I know where you are coming from, my Dad was 64 when he died and he missed so much.... 

OH has just bought a canoe for himself and the boys, this is in the same vein as your posting in that they will be grown up soon and not want to do things with 'Dad' the same, so anything he wants to do he has to do it now and you dont know what is round the corner. 

We have to grab the moment...

T.

[Curryandchips]

Along the same lines, I can join my children on the ice rink, and hold my own quite competently.

Not keen on taking up horse riding though ...

[supersprout]

Oh, and one of those little, old-fashioned travelling kettles where you poke twigs into the burner bit at the bottom to boil the water. What are they called?

They are called travelling kettles that you poke twigs into the bottom of.lolololol

Kelly Kettle?
:)

[Curryandchips]

Scroll down supersprout ...  :D

[supersprout]

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too many mirabelles ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

Oh, and one of those little, old-fashioned travelling kettles where you poke twigs into the burner bit at the bottom to boil the water. What are they called?

They are called travelling kettles that you poke twigs into the bottom of.lolololol

Volcano kettles. I don't know what I'd do without mine sometimes.

By the time I finally retire, I want to have a few novels in print, and selling steadily. That way I can 'retire' from teaching, and still have something to do.

[katynewbie]

 :o

Do you have any in print already Robert? If so, can we find them in all good bookshops?!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Not yet. I'll have one written before too long, but it's a struggle. What largely keeps me at it is the fact that my brother does it reasonably successfully. If he can, so can I. I've had it in the back of my mind for years and years, and then I had whooping cough or something similar last summer. I was fit for nothing but sitting in front of the computer, so I started writing. I've spent the summer struggling with the nightmare job of writing an account of a pitched battle. I've tried to be as accurate as I could (how would people act when there are few thousand people trying to chop them apart with sharp instruments?), and show the sheer horror of it without descending into what I call 'the pornography of violence'. Not easy at all, but it's roughed out, and that's 3/4 of the battle. I'll put it aside and write the ending, then come back to it, and rewrite it a couple of times, and it should be done.

[Shas]

When I took early retirement to bring up my step-grandkids, I thought I'd be bored (a bit stupid with a two-year-old in the house again I know, but there you go).  No chance!  Hadn't time to do all the things I wanted to do when I was working, and now I still don't seem to have the time to all the things I want to do.
No justice is there?
Joking aside, Same thing happened to my mum and dad as EJ's, so I tend to live for today now. Probaby coz I've got no time to sit and plan ahead!