The Retirement Newsletter: My first month of retirement

Issue Number: 5 — that can’t be right

Photo by Author — onboard a narrowboat on a lock on the Oxford Canal

Welcome

Welcome to issue 5 — my first month of retirement.

That can’t be right. Can it?

I have checked the calendar, and it is one month. It doesn’t seem possible.

So how is it going? But before that, this week’s photo.

This week’s photo

Back in issue -25 — Awareness and Boats: Am I becoming more aware? — I wrote about a boating course I took. Last week, I put my training into practice. I hired a narrowboat for a long weekend on the Oxford Canal.

Long story short, I loved every minute of it, and I can’t wait to go again.

The retirement honeymoon period

Honeymoon is a word I have not considered much. I know the word and its meaning, but what is its derivation?

According to chatGPT:

“The term “honeymoon” originates from an Old English tradition where newlyweds drank mead, a honey-based alcoholic drink believed to promote fertility, for the first month of marriage. The word combines “hony” for honey and “moone” for lunar month, originally denoting this one-month period. Today…