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The Retirement Newsletter: The Summer of 2023 — a summary of my summer
Issue Number: -18 — Where did that summer go?
Welcome
Welcome to issue -18 — The Summer of 2023 — a summary of my summer.
The first thing I have to address is — where did it go? What happened to summer 2023?
The Summer of 2023
Well, that was an odd one — the summer of 2023.
Where did it go?
I appear to have blinked and missed it.
Summer 2023 seemed to take forever to arrive.
Spring took ages to get here, and finally, we slipped into summer. And now it is gone.
I was looking forward to the summer of 2023 as I had plans. I had things to do — places to go. And here we are at the start of autumn, and I haven’t done half of what I wanted to do.
Summer started with getting some plants for the garden.
But the UK weather wasn’t kind.
We started with a very hot June, then July and August were cold and wet. And we had a hot start to September. The…
