Retirement Rocks

I'm home ! And it's cold.......very cold. First let me take you back to last Wednesday when things were a lot warmer and that eveni...

It's coming to the end of my time here in Buttonwood Bay (I leave on Thursday) and I thought I ought to give 15 minutes of fame to the m...

At about 3:50pm last Friday, we were driving back along US-27 towards our winter 'home' in Buttonwood Bay when we were passed by 3 p...

I'm not a superstitious person by nature, not at all. I'm not much into coincidences either. Nope, not me. A few weeks ago I posted...

You just can't beat an early January dip in the pool, followed by a cold drink as the scorching sun dries you off. While most of the nor...

The year has only just started and things have been happening here in gentle Buttonwood Bay. We paid a visit to Miami yesterday and while st...

It was a cold night here in normally warm central Florida - in fact in most of the continental USA. Our Canadian friends sent down a lot of...

My first blog on a Christmas Day. Actually it's 11pm here in darkest Florida but back home in Blighty it's Christmas Day so there. S...

I've used the expression "only in America" a lot on this trip and since coming here to our park in central Florida, I've e...

Well we finally gave in to our own pressure yesterday and bought a Christmas tree. It's all of 3 feet tall and is sitting proudly on the...

There was a report on the local tv news here in central Florida last week that made us all laugh out loud. That in itself was fairly unusual...

I'm just back from spending a long weekend with friends in Mexico.......oh no sorry.........in Gainesville, Georgia. It's a mistake ...

I don't know when 'they' decided that it's not the done thing anymore to use the word Christmas in adverts and stores and ev...