if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

It's a show business term, meaning to arrive on time no matter what mood you're in, how much sleep you didn't get last night, or...

You know my standard phrase: Work hard, exercise, eat right, don't drink too much, pay your damn taxes, and only spend money on things y...

Started badly with a real pain in my right hip that distracted the heck out of me and required expensive servicing by my magic osteopath. ...

For reasons to do with psychology, I found it hard to write about the process of deciding to retire. So I'm going to backtrack a little....

I have finally retired. The last day was April 30th, which meant that the first non-working day was Tuesday 4th May. Weekends and Bank Holid...

I have to talk about this. In three weeks' time I will stop working. I have to fill in some forms, and one reason I haven't alrea...

The longer I go on working, the later I have to live on a very much reduced income – though also with (not as much as you’d think) reduced e...

“I can do twenty months, but I’d rather work out some way of not thinking of it quite like that”. That stayed with me for all of the Wednesd...

I can collect my State Pension from the 6th January 2020, about eight months later than they originally promised the schoolboy me. For some ...