My tai chi classes have been cancelled so I am now practising in the garden and I can’t get over how peaceful it is. Normally, the planes are zooming endlessly overhead and there is a constant drone of traffic noise from the nearby A4. I’d become so accustomed to this background noise that I barely…
Month: March 2020
Time out
I don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of the problems that the world is now facing, but even the worst situations can have their compensations. There are those who are quite looking forward to cancelling all their diary commitments and cocooning at home. Of course this will present challenges, mostly in the form of other…
The lure of daytime television
I have recently been watching an awful lot of daytime television. Not by choice, you understand. My father has been staying with us and TV has featured prominently. I had optimistically thought that I would read a book, serene and undisturbed, while all of this was going on in the background. But, predictably, that isn’t…
Anyone for a later-life crisis?
Everyone is familiar with the mid-life crisis, but I don’t think I’ve heard anyone talking about a crisis occurring in later life. Surely this must be fairly common among the newly retired? Retirement is such an enormous change in people’s lives, a period of great adjustment and re-imagining. We are entitled to a crisis of…