PLUSES and minuses

Since retiring

I no longer:
- wear a raincoat or suit and tie; plain black shoes
- walk 3/4 mile every week day
- devote 11 hours a day to my employers
- spend hours at long meetings

but I now:
- travel long haul much more (blame our sons)
- shop during the week
- feel much fitter, playing badminton twice a week and often walking five miles or so
- play better badminton
- have a blog, take and edit digital photos, ditto videos, have a flikr site
- read books even when not on holiday
- wash, iron, clean a bit, cook a bit
- do more gardening and more DIY
- have more projects, at least three of which are incomplete at any given time (e.g. digitise family snaps)
- have less income and lower expenditure
- spend more time at home, and with my best mate (my wife)
- regard a visit to London as an occasional stimulating activity
- know more about our local community and its issues
- do some volunteering


and enjoy every minute of it! (almost)