u3a – Bills Posts

2072 – Put yourself out there

i’ve beeen going on a fair bit recently about vlogging, you might reasonably ask why? There is a youtuber, Rob the Maritimer, click his name to see his channel. Rob has set up a community, called Creators Cove, and issued a challenge to his 117,000 followers. Over a period of four weeks, issue three “longContinue reading “2072 – Put yourself out there”

2053 – The Retirement Plan

It’s 6 months and 11 days since I retired. Before retiring, I did what I like to do, and that is draft a retirement plan. I think at the 6-month point it’s reasonable to have a review, and do the usual thing of looking at what has and hasn’t gone well. I think what I’llContinue reading “2053 – The Retirement Plan”

1994 – Substack

Substack is a publishing platform, acting a bit like a blog. But it does do something a bit different in the way that readers can subscribe to newsletters. Now, that is something of an oversimplification but I have to confess that I haven’t got fully to grips with it yet. Why do I want toContinue reading “1994 – Substack”

1992 – Looking at the beach

It’s just gone 1130PM. less than half an hour to midnight, at which point my post counter will either stay is it is, or be reset to 0. Currently, it stands at about 20. I think the most I have ever got to is around 116. Can you imagine my frustration when, at 116, forContinue reading “1992 – Looking at the beach”

1978 – A Busy day

I got to the Gosport Shed just a few minutes before 11AM. Frustratingly, as I was walking upto the entrance, I had one of those thoughts, and after a quick rummage in my bag I confirmed that, yes, I had forgotten my reading glasses. I would have needed them to carry on working through theContinue reading “1978 – A Busy day”

1977 – u3a Monday

I call it u3a Monday, because I have a morning and an afternoon session, which always happens on the 4th Monday of the month. The morning session is stargazing. At this group, we gather to talk about what we have all done over the last month, what events are scheduled in the month ahead, andContinue reading “1977 – u3a Monday”

1976 – Letter to Steve X

Gilbert starts his letter X by expressing his frustration that he has no local like-minded people with whom he can share his interests. Writing his letters to his two friends is as close as he gets to conversing with anybody who shares his interests. I found myself asking how long a normal exchange of lettersContinue reading “1976 – Letter to Steve X”

1896 – The U3A Monthly Meeting

The U3A works on a four weekly cycle, which I am guessing (without doing any reasearch whatsoever, hence the guess) could get out of synch with the calendar months pretty quickly. Actually, thinking about it, if a month has five weeks, then nothing would be scheduled there. Anyhow, to lock the 20 day cycle (nothingContinue reading “1896 – The U3A Monthly Meeting”