Seeking the Good Life

The Idle Bee


December 2019

Keys to Darncombe

We dropped into the estate agents and collected keys to our new home today.

Moving into a new home is rather like a seed being sown. You hope that you can put down roots, grow strong and eventually bloom in your new environment


Our new house really needs some love and attention, it has clearly been a family home that has become too much for its octogenarian owners to manage. Our first week here will be spent meeting with Plumbers, Electricians, Heating engineers as well as measuring everything and starting to make plans. The real work will start in the new year.
Wandering round the back garden, we took a short video to remind us of why we have chosen to root here.
Back Garden

Retired

I am now officially retired from the NHS. I have been in continuous employment since I left medical school in 1988. At the moment it still feels somewhat unreal that I do not need to download my rota onto my phone this weekend and will not be driving into the Hospital early each morning before starting to see patients and ready for the days work in theatre.
No more looking back, so Forward it is!
It should go without saying that we need to start to make plans;-
  • Christmas is rapidly approaching
  • We are still on Schedule to get the keys to our new home within two weeks
  • We really could do with planning a short break somewhere warm.
  • Basically my first few weeks of retirement are going to be crazily busy!