Met with one of my former colleagues yesterday – someone my own age who I’ve known for 30 years. She’s just ‘retired’ too. We had a nice relaxed lunch and compared notes. We even wandered around the shops for a while – something I never do, but it was great to just be able spend unstructured time. We used to meet for hurried lunches between meetings at work.
Apart from a brief scare about tax on pensions (resolved after some frantic research when I got home – phew!), we had a lovely natter about our plans, our recent travels and our families.
Makes me feel a bit less ‘weird’ for retiring early.