Life after Work - what to do after retirement when you missed out on buying the East London Dream!
October 27, 2008 // Posted by: admin // Category: General, Personal
Well here we are in our happy little home in South East London. The family have all flown and guess what, it is just him and me now, on our own. Well after all, that is what we wanted when we were wild children in the sixties. We wanted to be together! So now we have all this time together, there is so much we can do. Have bus pass, will travel.
The strange thing is that free-time can be expensive time. I suppose we have been our own worst enemy in that we have lived through a fairly affluent time and as we were both pretty healthy and just about able, as they say to chew gum and walk at the same time, we were very employable. The result of this existence is that we have become accustomed to the monthly pay-cheque and now this has become the monthly pension and they feeling of optimism that our income may grow has rather been taken away.
Manage on a pension? How bourgoise! We like Waitrose and can’t stand the shoving and pushing in Aldi. I have always felt that if ideas didn’t work then you can rewind and have another go. But our video tape of life seems to be sticking and we are having to live with the choices we made.
Why didn’t we buy a Commercial Property in East London? There was a time when we were very much residents in that manor and when we were first married we had pie-in-the-sky ideas of starting a catalogue business selling saucy underwear. We could have operated in East London, home of the rag trade, and now we could be renting out the premises to Boris Johnson, so that he could cyle across for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, without ruffling his hair. It would improve his image and enhance our pension.
But wouldn’t you know Ann Summers got there first!