What's the Time?

My wife,Eleanor, received this clock as a present when she retired last year. I found it very amusing and really thought it summed up our ideal of what retirement should be about. Get up when you want, do what you want when you want to and go to bed be whenever.

I wouldn't say we have practised this over the past year or so, but we have come to realise the importance of routine in our life. You can lie in your bed to whenever, but do you feel any better when you get up? Go to bed whenever it suits you and you wake up feeling as if you have a hangover. The reality seems to be we all need routine in our life whether at work or in retirement. And the moral of this blip? If you are working don't dream your life away for the day you don't have to set the alarm clock, simply enjoy the routine that life brings.