The Platinum Line

Category: Ageing gracefully

  • Struggling To Get By In Retirement? Leveraging Your Assets For Liquidity

    Struggling To Get By In Retirement? Leveraging Your Assets For Liquidity

    Your retirement years are your golden years. You should be free to enjoy them in comfort and (dare we say it) just a little luxury. The autumn of your life should be the time at which you divest yourself of all the stress and anxiety that plagued you throughout your working life. A time when…

  • 3 things I learnt during lockdown

    3 things I learnt during lockdown

    The coronavirus lockdown has been a time of reflection for all of us. No matter your age, you’ve been affected by this period in some way. Some of you have lost your jobs and some have gone months without seeing family members or close friends. A lot of us are dealing with the mental side…

  • Bristol life in a lockdown part two

    Bristol life in a lockdown part two

    It has been a strange month. Like much of the world we have been spending our time in a lockdown because of coronavirus. Despite modern science we are faced with a pandemic without effective drugs, vaccines or treatments. Governments can only advise us to stay at home. In England this means we are only supposed…

  • Easter wishes from Bristol

    Easter wishes from Bristol

    Easter will be very strange this year. In some ways nothing has changed. There are still lambs in the fields and bluebells in the woods.  Birds are making nests and trees are coming into leaf. In other ways every thing has changed. I never imagined I would live through a pandemic. A virus has emerged…

  • Walking for health after retirement

    Walking for health after retirement

    Anyone reading my blog will know that I enjoy walking. Most weekends I go out with a walk in the past history group and we walk four or five miles often up and down hills. My husband took this photograph near Bradford on Avon on our walk last week.  I love learning more about the…

  • Get your will written free in October

    Get your will written free in October

      Did you know that October is Free Wills Month? Free Wills Month brings together a group of well-respected charities to offer members of the public aged 55 and over the opportunity to have their wills written or updated free using participating solicitors in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.The scheme covers simple wills only, including…