All over now

Well retirement has finally come around. It is the 31st March today and I finished on the 29th. That was quite a day saying goodbye to a lot of people that I have worked well with in years.

I have arranged a drink at our club on the 2nd April and quite a few will be coming along I have been told. It will be quite a night because that will be the last time I will see many of them. I will go and say hello ocassionally of course but I have got along with many of them over the years.

So far retirement has consisted of house cleaning! I have left a lot of things 'until I retire' but now I have to get on with it. I want to get it sorted out over the next couple of weeks and there will be a lot of stuff to take to the tip for recycling.

We have arranged a holiday in Holland for week in April to go and see the flower gardens. That will be a nice change and we are both looking forward to it.

Hopefully I can update this blog on a more regular basis now I have the time.

Hospital visit

We have to visit the Royal Glamorgan hospital today to see my sister-in-law. She was taken in yesterday as she had a bad fall and broke her ankle. It has been pinned and she will need another operation tomorrow.

The weather has turned wet once again and of course I had to put washing on last night hoping it would be dry! I now have a stack of wet washing to dry so I hope that it dries up later.

What a boring blog this is today! But the days are slowly counting down and I will have to see my bank manager as soon as I get the final figures on my pension to sort out my bills and see how much I have left.

I am trying to get a holiday in Holland organized for April but the hotels are bloody expensive at that time of year. We will have to sort something out and I have written to Henny, a friend over there to see if she can suggest anywhere.