Sorry for your loss Fenners
Hundreds of great golf courses to tick off in retirement
Get involved again in coaching adult teams, need something to get the blood pressure up
Travel Japan, NZ, Asia
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The Japan cup is anther bucket list horse racing event.
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Own a racehorse, maybe a small syndicate is another one.
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Sorry for your loss @fenwaypark
The crucible is a great trip
Easy to get there, not expensive best do it soon before moved to China/Middle East
There is something wonderful about going into the crucible at 10am in the morning to watch snooker
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Sorry for your loss @fenwaypark . I remember your post about your dad telling you and your brother in the pub why usually a mother and her daughter in law donāt get on. A classic 
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I retired as soon as I could financially. Donāt regret it for a second. I slogged long and hard for 35 years and there hasnāt been a day yet where Iāve woken up and thought āIād love a long hard slog todayā.
Iām done with routine. I have no interest in part time work or volunteer work or college courses, frankly anything that requires you to be anywhere at a given time.
Iāve done a couple of big trips, a bus tour across the States that took in places I knew Iād never get to see otherwise, Washington, Gettysburg, Chicago, Niagara, Yellowstone, Mt Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas. I loved it. I had thought of doing it as a fly drive but I realised I was too old and I didnāt want the hassle of trying to find hotels and parking after a long day on the road. The crack on the bus was good and weāve all stayed in touch on a WhatsApp group since.
The other thing I did was get the Rocky Mountaineer train from Banff to Vancouver and then do a cruise to Alaska. That was a bit of a disaster because the first day on the train was cancelled due to a signalmans strike and we had to bus it for 9 hours the first day. The second day was amazing though and so was Alaska. Word of warning though, the Rocky Mountaineer train company are cunts. Banff is absolutely beautiful, I thought Vancouver was a dive and we overnighted in a place called Kamloops which is like something out of Night of the Living Dead.
Iād go off to Europe or the North or Great Britain on a car ferry at the drop of a hat. Iām a history buff and I love coming upon historical spots, particularly Normandy which is one of my favourite spots.
I also have a fascination with graveyards (that I inherited from my father) and I will always stop the car and jump over the ditch if I see one.
I read all the time. I can read books properly now in stretches of 70-100 pages a day so I can follow them much better than when I was reading 10 or 20 pages just to get through a book after a long day at work.
I can garden whenever I want and not just at weekends. I go to gigs and listen to music. Iāll go for a spin on the bike or a swim whenever I like. Same with going to matches.
The reality is that I have mobility issues and the day will come when I wonāt be able to travel much more so Iām not holding back while I can still do it.
Sorry to hear about the loss of your father @fenwaypark. I lost both my parents in recent years. My father stayed sharp to the end but my motherās mind was gone for a few years and it was tough seeing such a dignified lady come to such an undignified end. But thatās the way life has gone now.
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Fantastic, Iād love to go to Alaska. Read more books is another one.
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I can relate to the bandwidth thing. Say you do the Crucible and take the Monday off. The line of 10 People (teachers)at the office door on the Tuesday morning can take the good out of it. And you might be thinking about that while the snooker goes on then. Itās silly really.
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Thatās the cunt of a thing about work now. You canāt leave it behind you. Thereās always some cunt whoāll think nothing of texting you or calling you even when you are on holiday and youāll know that as soon as the holiday is over youāll have 1000 emails waiting for you in your inbox. Retirement is magic because it puts a full stop to that.
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The Crucible sometimes overlaps with the Easter school holidays. Thatās the time to go. This was year was a late Easter though (April 20th) so you had the overlap this year and 2026 and 2027 are early Easters and itāll be 2028 again thereās an overlap when Easter is April 16th. The World Snooker Championship of 2028 may or may not take place at the Crucible.
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Thatās me now. I āfinishedā up the end of June. Out of office replies set up etc. However, Iām still dealing with emails, staff looking for references, authorising payments etc. I was down in Cork with family this week and came up yesterday to go to the removal of the Dad of one of our 1st years.
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The horse race in Sienna looks absolutely sensational. I added that to my bucket list at the weekend.
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Sorry for your loss @fenwaypark
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You genuinely are living the dream of most of us in our 40s and beyond. Did you/do you have any kids/children/offspring?
Donāt forget the Gloucestershire cheese rolling, the Atherstone ball game, the Shrewsbury Pie Pie festival, the throwing tomatoes at each other festival and the getting gored to death by a bull festival.
There is always the Sean Treacy Commemoration for those of a more sedate mind.
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He was in the navy and has a child in every port.
He now has to visit them all, regular likeā¦
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That sounds absolutely sensational. You must have made out like a bandit at some point in time.
He paid a heap of tax on his earnings
He used his naval training to raid merchant vessels along the south east coast of Ireland. Rumours abound he has a cave full of treasure somewhere in Dunmore East.
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