Progress not Perfection

Blackcats

ditto - hope you have had a lovely day 

ladyholly

I, too, hope you have had a lovely day.

Sun_Addict

It was lovely thank you. 

I did quite well with the secret Santa a tin of Christmas biscuits, a bath bomb and 2 face masks. The recipient of mine was very happy 🙂 We had a lovely meal and a lot of laughs. Such a shame we’re not still in the same team together 🙁 I’m a one man band in my location now, my other team members are located in Scotland. 

The meal was lovely and we got chatting to the restaurant owner who is still working hard at 72!! Perish the thought to still be working at that age.

Sun_Addict

Willowtree222 said:

Enjoy. 

What's a hair shirt? 

That's one reason I'm glad I don't live with another man. I only have to answer to myself! 

It’s a saying that means you’re being punished for something you’ve done. If you can imagine how uncomfortable it would be to wear a shirt made of hair you will get the general idea. 

I have a few friends who live on their own who say exactly the same thing as you. 

Willowtree222

Thank you. That makes sense.

I'm with someone but not where we are together all the time. It works really well and it's been almost 4 years. I know you're a carer and things are different for you. 

Glad you had a lovely day and got a nice secret santa x

badmemory

I think the working at 72 thing is about working for yourself & enjoying what you do.  I have a friend who is almost 80 & he still works, but if he doesn't want to then he doesn't.

Sun_Addict

badmemory said:

I think the working at 72 thing is about working for yourself & enjoying what you do.  I have a friend who is almost 80 & he still works, but if he doesn't want to then he doesn't.

He did give me the impression he likes to wander around and talk to his customers. He probably doesn’t get that much involved with the waiting on tables and cooking parts of it. I suppose he likes to see his restaurant busy and buzzing. 

Cherryfudge

I think I'd like to be working at 72, though how many hours, I don't know. It's been some years since I even did 30 hours a week, but I suppose if you add in my various other activities, I feel very busy. For me, it's because I enjoy working: if it were something I didn't enjoy, I expect I'd feel differently.

Your meal sounds great fun, and that's a nice gift too. Are you going to make a note on your calendar to suggest pulling names out of a hat next year, or will that inevitably mean you have to arrange it?

Makingabobor2

I sometimes wonder how I ever had time to work since I retired. I would like to do something though, but it would have to be a self employed thing, so I could just work when I wanted to do and not when someone told me to. Also there is the tax thing to consider with working as you get older. I am just above the tax threshold with my pensions, don't really want to pay  a load more.

Sun_Addict

Happy Saturday 🥂

Didn’t wake up until 6am which is really late for me. 

Did my ClubFit class, took the dog on the park then went to the big Mr Ts with the soft plastic recycling. I picked up a few bits of Christmas food while I was there and also some mini bottles of wine to take to the pantomime next week. Learned my lesson the hard way once by queuing for ages at the theatre bar to pay an extortionate price for a mini bottle of wine. We also take our own now and a couple of plastic glasses. 

By the time we got back home it was lunchtime then DS and the GKs arrived. After they left did the GFWR advent challenge day 14. 

Tonight’s dinner is beetroot burger, wedges and salad. Pink cava chilling in the fridge ready for tonight’s Strictly final. Can’t believe it’s the final already 😭