The Retirement Newsletter: Happy Christmas!

Issue Number: -57 — It can’t be Christmas?

Photo by Author — a ‘postbox topper’ in a local village

Welcome and Merry Christmas

Welcome to issue -57 — the Christmas edition.

This can’t be right? It can’t be Christmas? It doesn’t seem possible. And this might be my penultimate Christmas in employment.

If you are wondering about this week’s photo, it is of a ‘postbox topper’ in a local village. A what?

Postbox toppers are now a thing in the UK. It is the decoration of a postbox with something knitted. The knitted article usually has something to do with an upcoming event. I have seen them for the Queen’s Jubilee, Halloween, and Remembrance Day this year. The knitter is anonymous, and the toppers appear and disappear on the postboxes in the street.

Merry Christmas

I can’t believe it has been a year since issue -109: Merry Christmas — where I wished you all a Merry Christmas. It doesn’t seem possible that a year has gone by. I am a year closer to my retirement.