A Day in the Life of a Retiree

 Dear Marmite

As both of us are retired you'll know where I am coming from. It isn't that I don't have anything to do. it is just that my week days and weekends slip seemlessly by and I don't notice where they have gone. 

I get up happy, usually set off to do some sort of exercise; then back at home I potter and fiddle with stuff. Monday was different. It was the Queen's Funeral. This I have to say was spectacular on so many levels and I appreciate totally how long the history of the pageantry is. It made me chuckle when at one point a commentator said that one part was a more recent addition in the early 1500s. 

Lines like that are pure comedy. I did, however, get a bit irritated by the inane commentary about what was happening and also the number of familiar faces wheeled out to tell us at home how wonderful Her Maj was. By the time the coffin had been transferred to the hearse, I turned the sound off and just had it on in the background.

Just thinking of our history - the abbey, fininished in 1276, is amazing considering they had no cranes and modern technology. Not only is it grand on a large scale, it is magnificent in its decor too and it is still standing. This is a testament to how well it was made. I am glad I don't have to get the cobwebs from the rafters though. That must be a bit tricky even now. Westminster Abbey is not the only old place still standing. This country is full of really ancient stuff. Buildings around you in Singapore get earmarked for redevelopment after 30 years. Lucky that Dairy Farm is clinging on!

Last Friday I did quiz night at my place. It makes me realise what clever friends I have here. My round was on HRH... From my research I found this one...Do you know why the longest serving Saxon King was called Ethelred the Unready? It is all to do with a play on words and nothing to do with an incompetent monarch!! That was news to me.

A pro arts quiz by a pro artist!

I have been making tree name signs for the orchard. I am learning pyrography. This literally is playing with fire and I am not totally relaxed with the process but it fits with my aim of picking up new skills in my dotage. I have also been making a blanket for the cold weather. I plan to have my heating one degree lower than last year. Bills over here are threatening to be scary. 

And so Marms, I am off to tennis- need more practice to get more medals-  shortly followed by an afternoon pottering in the garden. Lots to do before the temperatures really drop! 

Miss you and love you loads

Hugs

XXXX