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The strange thing is, that nowadays, I'm not strapped for cash - I'm strapped for time.

Yup, I know the feeling: I'm short on both fronts! As for the 'time' component, our generation were brought up in a climate of 'make do and mend' - so the older we get, the more skills we acquire at mending things plus the older we get, the more things there are that seem to need our skills in mending anyway. The only mending skills that I'm seriously short of are those to mend bits of myself! (Thinks: eye-sight, hearing, joints & muscles, memory, etc. )

I'd fondly imagined that retirement is all about a life of leisure, where you can just take it easy, saunter through each day, working down your 'do-list', ticking off all those things you said you'd get around to when you retired, until eventually you have no backlog. Dream on! Trust me, it's never going to happen!

As I am slowly beginning to discover, having been forced into premature retirement about 3 years ago. There are several large & serious 'radio' projects that are now starting to clutter up my workshop. I'm starting to realise, with each passing day, that they are slowly receding from the prospect of ever getting sorted.

I've metamorphosed into one of those insufferable old buffers who are forever saying 'I don't know how I found time to go to work'.

Ditto.

Funny old world, innit?

Quite: I am reminded of an astute observation that Alan Beckett made some time ago: "It's the young that seem to be in such a hurry, compared to us, which is a bit strange considering that unlike us, they have plenty of time in front of them."

Yes, it's a funny ol' world, indeed.

Al.