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Do you LIKE being busy?
- Thread starter Wilko
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Cannot beat eating your own produce
It was brilliant whilst it lasted. Swiss chard carrots raspberries tomatoes potatoes spring onions beetroot lettuce - all the usual stuff and straight from the garden.
How large is your allotment?
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Cannot beat eating your own produce
I beg your pardon
Are you German or something?
Weststander
Well-known member
Same as you, a fidget, if it's not work, it's starting new home or garden projects, fitness, study, tidying up, etc. Always a long list of chores to do. I know a few other guys who are exactly the same. Do-ers.
I found the best antidote is to get into good films and Netflix series, ditch web devices (not just now) and chill. Also reading books whether it be novels, biographies or factual texts.
Wellesley
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- Jul 24, 2013
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Cannot beat eating your own produce
Pervert.
AmexRuislip
Retired Spy 🕵️♂️
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I like to be busy but I like to be in control of organising my time. I'm not great at spontaneously reacting to what other people want me to do.
Wellesley
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- Jul 24, 2013
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One more of them from you and I'll get a complex
Jack Straw
I look nothing like him!
I retired exactly a year ago, and what you've written is exactly my experience - EXACTLY! I could have written what you have written just after I finished working. In my case, having worked for 44 years, same routine day after day, although what I had to do was different each day when I got there, I was so "routineised", it took me months before it dawned on me that you don't have to do anything any more. I try to live in the "Now", and not worry what other people are up to, even if it seems a lot more glamorous than what you are getting up to. I now take my time doing everything. For example, instead of rushing in the supermarket on the way to work to buy bread, I stroll along to the bakers taking in all the things around me that I hadn't had time to notice before, and return home via a circular route to get a bit of fresh air. Just a simple change, but lots simple little changes make life very pleasant. I now spend much more time taking photos, visiting and helping people. People that I had spoken to who had retired said that they didn't know how they had the time to work. I am now at the stage where I am now also preaching that gospel. You will reach this stage soon, I assure you. You have now earned the right to do f-all if you wish, without having to feel guilty. That's what finishing work is all about. However, have a go occasionally at leaving your comfort zone. That's always a good thing to do.
I haven't got a "Bucket List". I play each day as it comes.
Just make sure that you have something to look forwards to every day, even if it's something trivial like watching your favourite TV programme, having a bath, or shopping for bread!
What ever you do has to beat working?
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- #33
I travel a lot and find I really like a plane journey as it forces me to read as I cannot do anything else!
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- #34
Nice post. I fly to Central america next Thursday for a month so that is my next project. I like your stuff about taking time though, I always fell in a rush even if its popping into the supermarket.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
I'd quite like to be a plumber, if only to be able to say "flange" without a smirk.
I'm quite partial to an " Essex Flange "
OzMike
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I see work as a necessary evil, only sometimes satisfying.
Need a big lotto win so that I can enjoy rest of time on earth.
Need a big lotto win so that I can enjoy rest of time on earth.
100% relate to this. I've always worked fairly long hours, travelled abroad with work a lot and commuted into London from Sussex, plus have outside interests so kind of always on the go. 3 years ago a restructure at work allowed me to negotiate an exit after several years at the firm, with nothing immediately lined up. I saw it, in part, as a test of whether I was ready to slow down (I was 48 at the time). The first month was great - did a few long-oustanding chores, went to the gym every day, several days out/pub lunches, bit of golf and fishing etc. However, even after a month I was getting bored and fidgety and knew it wasn't time to stop work (wasn't financially viable anyway, but could have considered something lower key/less time draining). I accepted another job and started about 4 months later, which has been manic for 2.5 years but I love it. Travelling a bit too much at the moment but otherwise manageable as I work from home a couple of days a week.
When I'm doing 'nothing' I definitely get twitchy, like I should be doing something - whether it's chores, work or exercise, always have this sense that every minute needs to be 'used'. As a result (as someone else has indicated) I find flights hugely relaxing as I can't do anything that would be bugging me to do (me time).
OzMike
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I tend to procrastinate a lot these days and then have to panic to get everything done.
I know I'm doing it, but just can't seem to stop myself.
I'm like this with jobs around the house as well, there are some major tasks there that have to be done but I just keep putting them off with some excuse or other.
Usually to play music.
I know I'm doing it, but just can't seem to stop myself.
I'm like this with jobs around the house as well, there are some major tasks there that have to be done but I just keep putting them off with some excuse or other.
Usually to play music.
