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Of Freedom, Dame Maggie and knowing that leggings are the work of Satan

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  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...