Tag Archives: Mike’s retirement

Married Without Kids

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Helga

It’s been the strangest thing of late. Now that Mike has been retired for 4 months and we are both working from home, it resembles being newly wed without children. We have few domestic responsibilities. Right now we feel we … Continue reading →

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Mike Said He’d Do It When He Retired….

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Helga

The postbox slowly fell apart. In its 20 year life, it was repaired once or twice. Wasps moved in. The neighbourhood children came across one day to ask for a ball that had been kicked into our garden. They commented … Continue reading →

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Ice-Cream in the Dead of Night

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Helga

It was one thing I didn’t anticipate – that we would run into some strange sleeping patterns post Mike’s retirement. Mike has always been a night person. Right at the birth of our relationship, we went out for coffee after … Continue reading →

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Two Weeks Of Retirement

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Helga

This is the thing: life moves on. Time stops for no man…or woman. There were countless times I said to Mike, ‘when you retire, we’ll do this or that’. And now here we are! Two weeks have passed and it has … Continue reading →

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A Significant Moment In Time

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Helga

No sooner had I hit ‘publish’ on yesterday’s blog, I heard my husband coming up the stairs, saying, ‘decisions, decisions’.  I was very surprised as that was the title of my blog. He didn’t know I was writing on decisions. … Continue reading →

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Mike’s Final Day of Work…

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Helga

Yay! The day dawned and Mike left at his usual time. There he goes… He was planning on taking the afternoon off, seeing as he has worked about 9 hours of overtime. However, it was planned that he may have … Continue reading →

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