Ichabod's Day

  This week marks the one month anniversary since I retired - it feels both possible and impossible that one month has passed.  Lesson #1: I may be turning into Dame Maggie I am learning that I don't have to do everything all at once, I am definitely slowing my pace - which is a good thing. The days blend into one and I find I'm doing  the Senior Moment narrative of "what day is it"? From looking at a calendar/diary eleventy-two times a day to ensure I was where I should be at any given moment, I now find I forget to look and have had a couple of near misses with family birthdays - but caught them just in time- phew! I find I am becoming a bit Dame Maggie in Downton Abbey - "what is a weekend?" https://youtu.be/zhfpBW-nUWk Lesson #2: Once an OT always an OT/Never too old to learn new skills  I thought I would be a "lady who lunches" that I would be spending time visiting family in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Fra...

 You know how you can look forward to something so much that all your attention focuses on the "thing" that is going to happen ( a holiday, a new addition to the family, finally acquiring the book you've been searching for, retiring.....) that you forget/overlook/ lose focus on what comes next? Well, it feels a little like that at the moment. My previous post (linked here) using Eagers et al (2018) stages of transition left us at "ceasing work". A stage I was in at that time towards the end of August and now successfully transitioned with no major hiccups. A lovely, socially-distanced send off by colleagues - although there seemed to be a lot of adjectives such as "organised", "keeps us to task", "straight talking" - do you think they meant "bossy"?! Next stage is "Feeling Retired" described as the point in time when you consider yourself retired. I keep jokingly saying "I'm a pensioner" but I...