Welcome to Reflections in Retirement

I have spent most of my life from the age of 12 having worked in some form or another, first that paper round, morning and evening 7 days a week and in all weathers, then part-time and full-time in a cash and carry warehouse before joining the armed services for a 32-year career.  Leaving the environment of the services was difficult enough, as the structure in civilian life is so different, and expectations of the working day widely varied.  It was not an easy transition but one I managed successfully for over 12 years.  At last came the time to consider retirement which itself pulled on the strings of responsibility to an employer being broken and the realms of initiative and creativity being opened wide.  I had often heard people say, "Retirement, I don't know how I ever had time to work!" which was something along the lines of what I wanted to achieve, so I have been working on the list of ideas that I feel would float my boat again and give me the interest and excitement moving forward.

I have structured this site around each of the different subjects that I intend to engage with, I hope to provide interesting feedback about how everything pans out, with tips on how to avoid the mistakes that I make and promotion of my successes. Building this site is a part of my learning. I look forward to improving different aspects of the site as my knowledge grows, from basic writing of paragraphs like this to developing learning pages on interesting subjects such as photography, creative writing, DIY, and crafting. It is also an intention to introduce a blog page for sharing experiences linked with a range of social media output from which I will be able to encourage feedback and sharing of experiences with others traversing retirement.