I was relating my own experience, in case @Danidl was interested, and I haven't made any recommendations, as that isn't my professional place to do so. You're not ignored.
Brexit, for once some facts.
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Banknotes are rarely ignored, which is why it's important to remain or get rich as we age, shrink, decay and die (the latter two may actually be of course equivalent to the first).
Honest, boring version is listen to radio 4 (today etc), not music (that would speed one up). On the plus side reality is becoming positively gripping at present. Have, on another level, begun fantasising about endless walks with dog, fishing in calabria (it has these never-ending desolate safe beaches with aquamarine water, occasional villages with cafes, quaint stations, air conditioned trains, views of mt etna, the strait, as close to paradise one can get without flying to carribean), but found its not simple to retire (even less so in teeth of recession with prospect of everything going tits up in Ukraine and all us waking up in our own version of "the road"). And there's the not insignificant issue of still doing something that makes one feel connected, engaged, alive, not entirely redundant. I may well take leaf from your book and do more cooking, growing vegetables, realise a lot of what passes as life outside this is narcissistic delusion.
Aren't gradients hard on knees? It's bloody agony managing stairs sometimes these days, especially because I haven't been walking much since getting my bike electrified.
Those activities will absorb as much time and resources as you allow them. I'm not going to be growing much this year, but I say that every year...
Holidays and writing books, is what everyone I know who hasn't died immediately after retirement does, till they die. Not wishing you death! Like tennis rackets, what keeps us challenged and quite often stressed, also keeps us alive. I'll never retire, will die working... luckily I enjoy what I do for a living.
Until they're dead, most retired people I know self-publish strange meanderings about their bizarre lives via Lulu, although many have found more exposure using Amazon. Lulu has lower fees:
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That sounds awesome.
Over half a million workers on strike today.
It's bad enough having doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, fire brigades, railways, teachers on strike, but now the British Museum staff have joined them on strike.
If archaeologists and sociologists also strike now I don't know how we will all cope.
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It's bad enough having doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, fire brigades, railways, teachers on strike, but now the British Museum staff have joined them on strike.
If archaeologists and sociologists also strike now I don't know how we will all cope.
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Speaking of the recently underemployed, saw boris a moment ago speaking on sky about ukrain. And (and sincerely without any irony or sarcasm) worried for him. There seems a distinctly disturbed somewhat hypomanic quality, edge to his presentation, mental state. On the verge of incoherent (and I don't mean boris incoherent, I mean proper wordsalad "**** mate I think it's time for a week's detox on 'the farm' incoherent). Here's to hoping its just down to adjustment and not something more disturbing.
That doesn't surprise me, as someone consistently used to getting his own way throughout life, successful in his own mind at least, he will be psychologically ill equipped for all the rebuffals and criticism he's suffered recently. So his reaction could become more hysterically desperate.
And he has been in the USA for a while. When my sister had completed all other main types of nursing many years ago, she decided on training for mental nursing and said where better than the USA, the land of the nut case. So off she went, ending up staying and marrying there. Years later after having her first two children she returned for a holiday, a totally changed and neurotic person I could scarcely recognise as my sister.
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Shell made $40 billion profit in 2022. Guess how much their tax bill is?
£400 millions. Roughly 1.2%.
we have become the capital of the world for tax dodgers.
£400 millions. Roughly 1.2%.
we have become the capital of the world for tax dodgers.
Yet:
Shell is considering exiting its home energy retail businesses in Britain, the Netherlands and Germany in the wake of "tough market conditions".
They have also been considering pulling out of some North Sea exploration, though that is now being reconsidered.
Seems we are only good for tax dodging purposes.
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Just watching Alex Christoforou https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/boris,-cryogenic-freeze.-russia,-india:c and he seems to think the same. He does keep visiting Ukraine/Zelensky who is known for his use of the white floury stuff....
Shortage of cars to survive, probably due to too many in the same business now. They are still pestering me every day with headings like "We really want to buy your Nissan". I've long stopped keeping count but it's over 30 mailings now.
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We should have splashed out on 20 cars each in 2020 when the prices were low and so were the interest rates.
As a pensioner can't complain though, just learnt that 22% of pensioners are classed as millionaires** but only 15% are in poverty.
** They are probably the ones walking home from WeBuyAnyCar !
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just get some of them hi power hubs off a scooter and sit on the batt and controller