Retirement Rocks

I like stats. Always have. It's a wonder I don't like baseball as that must be stat heaven but then there's always cricket. An...

After our Olive Garden meal tonight, we decided to go to The Mall. I love malls and can spend hours just window shopping and people watching...

What does THAT mean ? I've never seen a cute button in my life. I mean Jensen is ok but I'm not into men...ohh err, missus. Anyway ...

It seems a long time since I was in Italy last August but seeing as I'm in mid Florida with temps in the 80's, it's actually a l...

I ate yesterday. Quite a bit, actually. I gave the menu in the previous post and although I really only ate portions of turkey, ham, mashe...

It's Thanksgiving Day here in the colonies and of course that means remembering back to when these actually WERE the colonies. As we al...

17 years ago to the day, I woke up with a pain in the neck. After she left to do some shopping, I enjoyed the rest of the day. Oh what a wag...

This morning I got up at 6:15am. I'm retired. I'm spending the winter in Florida. I have NO need whatsoever to be getting up at su...

I SO wanted to like this oven. I really did. I mean I have a similar one at home and therein lies the problem. The one at home, a Sharp, d...

My combi oven is arriving today.....in less than an hour if the FedEx tracking site is accurate. By the time it gets here, it'll have ha...

I may be 5 hours and 4,000 miles from home but thanks to the internet, I'm still reading about things that fire up the Victor Meldrew in...

After brunch at The Palms of Sebring , an independent and assisted living complex in downtown Sebring (don't ask - long story, great foo...

I'm just back from my exercise walk around the park which takes me about 55 minutes. Back home I'd have had to use the treadmill and...

Once of the most beloved and iconic tv series from the late 60's in the UK was The Prisoner. It actually wasn't all that popular wh...

After literally sleeping on it for a couple of nights now, the jury, (for that would be me), has reached a verdict on the new bed. It's ...

In this large country, sometimes it's a very small world. In Sebring we have a store called Bed, Bath & Beyond, part of a nationwide...

I've just returned all hot and sweaty from a short walk along the canal path in sunny Buttonwood Bay. I didn't meet a single soul as...

You don't have to go far in the deep south of America to find 'a world of Mexico' where everything is written in both languages ...

Now I'm all for sex equality in sports even though there are some sports that women just can't or shouldn't be playing. There, t...

Yesterday we went to the beach. Sadly we didn't get onto the sand until about an hour before sunset but we still had time for a swim an...