it's now a few weeks since I pressed the button on my career - literally!
Mentioned in dispatches
The Thursday before I retired I completed an on-line application to be removed from the Roll of Solicitors and after a short, silent prayer dispatched it into cyber-space. Mrs electrofried and I had concurred that after almost four decades of practicing the law the prospects of ever getting it right seemed exceedingly slim so off went the application - my career finished at the press of a button.
What a relief! After three months of saying goodbye to clients and colleagues I felt more like Frank Sinatra at the end of yet another farewell tour.
Christmas holidays
At first it doesn't seem like retirement, just another Christmas break. But now the reality sets in! The presents have been opened, the tree taken down for another year and the family have gone their separate ways once more.
My new life
So here's the start to my new life! What a wonderful time I had yesterday. I spent all day in the freezing cold with four marvellous neighbours, three of whom are also retired. We filled the pot-holes that pepper our road with over six tons of hard-core.
It was a cross between 'Last of the summer wine' and 'Boys from the Black-stuff', which for our overseas followers are two very different comedy programmes.
Yours as ever,
electrofried(mr)
