Today sees the start of my
sixth year of retirement from full time work and looking back gives two contrasting
perspectives on those five years – the daily (and often nightly) all-consuming focus
on the job seems an age ago, yet the years seem to have sped by, so to reassure
myself that the time has not been wasted I reminded myself of some achievements
in the field of leisure: read and reviewed 205 books; attended 150 football
matches, visiting 38 different grounds, and experienced live the Olympics in
London, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and the Tour de France in Yorkshire;
walked the Hadrian’s Wall path (82 miles), the Teesdale Path from Barnard
Castle to the North Sea (66 miles) and the St Cuthbert’s Way from Melrose as
far as Wooler.
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