• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Retirement

Congratulations, Pete. More workshop time!

What did you do?
 
Congrats from me too.
Just so happens I received my first (french) state pension payment this week. I don't qualify for a lot and i’m still battling to have my entitlement increased (a long story). At only 62 I certainly don’t feel retired even though I stopped gainful employment nearly 18 years ago.
 
I ended up as an IT/AV technician, I was in the workshop where the staff would bring in their faulty laptops for repair or replacement.
It was an interesting challenging job, I did enjoy it but when 4 people showed up and no one else was there to help it got busy.

I had a nice send off and a Ecard with lots of good messages on.

Pete
 
Enjoy your lie in on Monday morning Mate.
All the more sweeter when there’s a heavy frost and you don’t have to de ice the windscreen.
 
We now have a ford with a heated screen so much less scraping, the Alfa developed a very expensive gearbox problem so had to go.
 
Congratulations, Pete! I retired in 2019 and thought I would have loads of free time. I could not have been more wrong. However, the difference was my list of tasks to occupy my day were things I wanted to do, not things I had to do.
 
Congratulations Pete, and a very healthy retirement.
(please don't fall!)
You need to keep the brain occupied and try keep the body on the go.
Good luck.
Just remember it is a BIGGER adjustment for the wife to all of a sudden have you at home all the time. (in the way of whatever is being done)
There are some don'ts:
Do not offer to go with shopping, you will be bored stiff, unless there is a good pub to wait or you take her to lunch. (I normally finished a bottle of wine before she arrives!)
Do not ask where and how long she will be away.
Remember she has her own social group, you will not fit in.
Do ensure the mobile is always charged with power & airtime.

I took an early retirement in 2005 and then did contract work part time for 1 year and full time for 10 years.
Working on a contract gives you and the company a totally different relationship, either party does not need to take the sh1t of the other one! :LOL:
 
Welcome aboard Pete! I'm six eventful years from my Headmaster enacting my formal retirement. I did 41 years in toto, and I'm glad to be 'out'.
Just watch out, time now runs at double speed.
And, your hair migrates from your bonce to your nose (and ears).
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Congrats and welcome to the happy club!

When I retired (quite some time ago, nice and early) a wise friend advised me that one downside was that you could no longer take a week off and magically get some extra time - what you have is all you get. So don't rush to fill it all corner to corner; allow yourself room to slow down just a little bit. (But keep moving!)
 
Well done. All the retired people I know tell me they do not know how they ever had time to work. A very good friend of mine retired 10 years ago. When we meet I (working full time) have to ask him when he has time to fit me in. Usually he will suggest 2 or 3 days over the next two months. The rest are committed. Enjoy and manage your time.
 
Congrats and I hope it’s a long one. I’ve been retired for a few years now, gradually eased down into it and then things took a turn where I haven’t had a workshop to keep fit and active in. Point is the muscles and stamina slough away really quickly, so my advice is to keep active. But enjoy yourself obviously.
Ian
 
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