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'Our grandfather lived in Ardakip and every Friday I would collect his pension and receive a penny'
We didn't possess any balls for playing with but when the evenings got dusk and the electricity had arrived we would play around the lampposts and had great fun dancing on our shadows. One year there was a big fall of snow and there was a marvellous…
Tags: freetime actvities, grandparents, pennys, pension, shoemaker
'I was very apprehensive about giving up work '
I signed up for a Masters in Quality Management in 1998 at the age of 56 and completed it in 1999 but whilst in the process of writing my dissertation in 2000 I had a heart attack so I never finished the Masters completely. I had all my life been…
Tags: income, pension, Retirement, self-image, work