Last Week Before Retirement (and A Norfolk Gift)

[YnysMon]

My final few days of work are whizzing past, with this coming Friday being my last day. It's very sociable too, as I've been meeting up with various colleagues and ex-colleagues several lunchtimes last week and will do this week. Actually, it's the most that I've been on the OU campus since Covid struck.

One of the colleagues I met today gave me a most thoughtful and welcome gift. It's a little book of poetry in the Norfolk dialect. 

This one...

[LizG]

Happy retirement!

Lx

[MargeandParge]

Have a wonderful well earned retirement. You already know how to enjoy yourself just make sure that you use every moment to prove it.

Kindest Regards Marge and Parge 

[ExSurveyor]

Make sure you find the time to be retired. 😁

[FairTmiddlin]

If the Norfolk dialect intrigues you from that book look out for

"Mighta bin Wuss". By Tony Clarke 

It comes from a series of articles published weekly in the Eastern  Daily Press.

These go back to just after the war.

I remember my father regaling us in his broad accent every week.

Enjoy your retirement. before long you will wonder how you fitted in work into your schedule.

[Chelsea14Ian]

Welcome to the world  of retirement. Soon your wounder how you had time to work.

[kpnut]

Last few days, then next week it feels like you’re on annual leave, a week later it hits you!

Enjoy every last minute of it Helen. Try not to get so booked up that you have no time to yourself - if you do that, you might as well be at work earning money. 

[YnysMon]

Actually, next week is using up the last of my annual leave. First ‘official’ day of freedom 1st October.

and

[Mouldy]

3 hours ago, ExSurveyor said:

Make sure you find the time to be retired. 😁

No ruddy comment.  Holiday next week then back to decorate the living room.

Cant wait!

[grendel]

I have had a few days off (enforced stay at home due to no car, and am already wondering how I fit a days work into my schedule, I havent stopped, yet still I am not getting any more tidying done than when I am working.

(on a side note I did manage to get the stern jackstaff done for the BA model, and compile a list of other jobs needed on it).

[floydraser]

Our first attempt at retirement was back in April when Mrs Raser packed up work. It lasted about a week before circumstances put it on hold. As soon as we were able to try again there was a heatwave. Then we finally managed to get out at the weekend and Monday - now it's on hold again while this storm blows over. I turned down work to do this!