Damn

I had a 1 day course from the BBC - but that was 18 years ago.

I was freelance for the last 20 years or so of my career, so used to having gaps between work. Sometimes intentional, sometimes not. So I just think of retirement as a bigger than usual gap - but not having to worry about making money to pay the bills. ;-)

Bloody Northerners:-)

Rod Speed explained on 22/12/2014 :

It took me a couple of years of being retired, before the idea completely settled in my head. 50+ years of getting up and at it, takes some winding down from.

Agreed - I was just saying that everyone else gets councilling for traumatic events ;o)

Our services are crazy. It actually would have been less costly for us to get into the car, drive away from town, park and get the P&R bus than to get a bus from home. About equal now that partner has a bus pass. (And cheaper and faster simply to drive to town and make use of one of the free shop car parks.)

I work for a university - so I'm half way there :)

(No, only joking boss ;)

And I'm not having a dig at Bob - he's a lecturer and they can work insanely hard. I'm not...

I think the point is it's what you can do with it more than what it looks like that's important. And of course it means that it will run on pretty low powered hardware. (though you can get higher res skins for it)

But I only work insanely hard some of the time. I stopped today...and have no intention of doing more until mid January. When all hell lets loose again. 12 interview cycles in 12 weeks for starters.

I no longer work on Thursday & Friday, from 1 Aug this year, and I'm still having twinges of "shouldn't I be working?" on those days.

Ah yes I can imagine that, especially if you're winding down in the way that you are. For the first few months after a sharp cut-off retirement, I'd panic every Sunday evening thinking I hadn't planned out the work week ahead.

I still have nightmares where I haven't done my school homework