Tag: retirement
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This Historic Property…
Would you like to live in this charming little 12th Century Austrian town? Do you see yourself retiring to a life in the foothills of the Alps, less than an hour from Salzburg (think Mozart, and ‘Sound of Music’) in the hometown of FranzXaver Gruber, the composer of the carol ‘Stille Nacht’(‘Silent Night’)? Availability of…
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Salad Days
It is time to confess: I am seventy. I have reached the gates of Old Age. I was a novice of sixty-five when I first hung up my gloves and placed my favourite chair determinedly close to the hearth. That new dictum of ‘behaviour in retirement’ took time to learn. I had to understand that…
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Into the Sunset
As months go, September went. And October came – momentously. Two things, two life-altering things, have happened in October. Firstly, and quite devastatingly, I finally lost sight of my feet. Let me explain this. When you become older in a comfortably furnished sort of way as have I, you can no longer actually reach your…
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