{"id":1803,"date":"2020-11-06T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2020-11-06T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:20:37","slug":"taking-the-guilt-off-the-gingerbread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/11\/06\/taking-the-guilt-off-the-gingerbread\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the guilt off the gingerbread…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…the spelling is intentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I’m 68, the age at which I’d normally have retired, and Janet has made a ginger cake – delicious!! Of course I still wonder whether I should’ve stayed to the end – but if I had, maybe we’d not have been able to do some of the projects we’ve done. Also I was never the best at keeping up with what was going on anyway, and that feature of my working life was getting worse as I went through my sixties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously it’s another time to think about how my working life went: perhaps what I didn’t realise before is that although I had many talents, I also had one or two gaps – so possibly I couldn’t have been all that much more useful than I actually was. Sometimes the things you fall down on aren’t the ones you are expecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, there’s a lot more life to be lived, and I’m looking forward to it, lockdown or no lockdown. As a matter of fact, the virus has come to us at the least worst possible time – we are newly retired, relatively fit, on a fixed income and living somewhere beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KODAK Digital Still Camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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KODAK Digital Still Camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Something to think about for our future – how can life be more beautiful for people who have been pushed aside in the struggle for wealth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…the spelling is intentional. Today I’m 68, the age at which I’d normally have retired, and Janet has made a ginger cake – delicious!! Of course I still wonder whether I should’ve stayed to the end – but if I had, maybe we’d not have been able to do some of the projects we’ve done. … <\/p>\n

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