It must be monday

[Splatt]

It must be monday.
anything rather than go to work !

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[Dosco]

It must be monday.
anything rather than go to work !

You didn't get where you are today without knowing when Monday arrives did you - I have decided not to go to work today, hang on I retired 3 years ago so I AM NOT GOING TO GO:lol::lol:

 

[television]

I am still ½ working, but Monday is the same as all the other days and as long as members tell me its Monday thats great

 

[Dosco]

I am still ½ working, but Monday is the same as all the other days and as long as members tell me its Monday thats great

who are you? indeed who am I

 

[hairyg]

Monday - Gym and then choir practise
Tuesday - Play with the watermill
Wednesday - Day out with SWMBO
Thursday - Play with the watermill again
Friday - Clean the mud off the car
Saturday - Different choir practise
Sunday - Church & Sunday dinner

Every weekday - listen to the traffic reports and fall about laughing.

I don't have time to go to work any more. Good, ain't it.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

Retirement? A Concept.

I thought retirement would mean an end to early rising, windy platforms, staying ahead of the rush hour, completing the weekend e-mail before 9 a.m. Monday and, after the joy of the 5 day working week, living your whole real life in 2 breathless days at the "weekend".

Not so. It meant a sudden cessation of salary, but little else. People learn that you are around more, so you get a blend of "the lord makes work for idle hands", and "if you want a job done, give it to a busy person".

So relaxed retirement remains a concept - possibly an aspiration.

But now I am busy doing things I want to do. Philosophically, it is a privilege (not every generation has enjoyed retirement, and future generations might not), an opportunity to "pay back" all the favours and treats people have done for me, and time to savor the concept of "enough". Enough health, enough money, enough interests to enjoy all the good stuff that was outside my tunnel vision during the working years.

In the words of the Cheryl Crowe song, "it's not getting what you want" that matters, but wanting what you've got.

If you won the lottery tomorrow it would not make you a better person. Indeed, would it alter that much? Oscar Wilde explained to us that by being born in Western Europe, we had already "won the lottery of life".

Now I am enjoying the winnings to the full.

 

[brianbrian]

I am like you boys & girls thoroughly enjoying retirement. nothing worries me now as long as i wake up monday mornings, I'm Happy. lets just hope our health keeps up.

 

[Splatt]

who are you? indeed who am I

We seem to have similar problems. Can I suggest my solution :- write your name in large letters on the ceiling over the bed where you can see it when you awake ! Keep your bins on the bedside table !

 

[television]

I am like you boys & girls thoroughly enjoying retirement. nothing worries me now as long as i wake up monday mornings, I'm Happy. lets just hope our health keeps up.

What do you do when you do not wake up, say on a thursday

 

[Dosco]

What do you do when you do not wake up, say on a thursday

Whatever it is it will be to late to pray:lol::lol:

 

[Dosco]

We seem to have similar problems. Can I suggest my solution :- write your name in large letters on the ceiling over the bed where you can see it when you awake ! Keep your bins on the bedside table !

Done that but on the odd occasion when reading it I have asked myself and anyone else listening "who the BH is that?" can't say as I have has a sensible answer yet though

 

[teddycatkin]

I dont know how to fit all my golf in now--I seemed to play more often when I was working ? (Glad you reminded us it is Monday all days are the just the same now).
Ah well back to cleaning the moat out--somebody has to do it!!! -Teddycatkin.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

I dont know how to fit all my golf in now--I seemed to play more often when I was working ? (Glad you reminded us it is Monday all days are the just the same now).
Ah well back to cleaning the moat out--somebody has to do it!!! -Teddycatkin.

Glad to hear you have the same problem. Still the pool provides refreshing relaxation after cutting the grass on the Helipad!

 

[teddycatkin]

My gardener does that Alex ?

 

[Alex M Grieve]

My gardener does that Alex ?

You haven't seen the state of my gardener. I just feel it would be inhuman - especially when you see the size of the helipad!

But don't tell anyone else - they'll think I'm contemplating politics.

 

[television]

You haven't seen the state of my gardener. I just feel it would be inhuman - especially when you see the size of the helipad!

But don't tell anyone else - they'll think I'm contemplating politics.

But once you have a chopper, you can use it as a lawn sweeper, just proving the point that once you make enough money it takes care of its self.

 

[teddycatkin]

You must have a big chopper as well then Alex ?

 

[Alex M Grieve]

You must have a big chopper as well then Alex ?

Modesty forbids comment, so you must make your own conclusions on that accurate observation ...............