Tomorrow is a land mark day for me as I will become officially retired. After 36 years of working as an engineer in the petrochemicals and oil industry I am hanging up my PPE , calculator and stopping attending all meetings. Not that it has all been bad , far from it , but it's time for me to move on.
This last week I have been practicing for my new life, on a final week of holiday. Lots of felting , some cooking and a long walk.
Knitting still wins shame !.
Finishing felting and knitting WIPs.
Two rag dolls made many years ago by my mother modeling a couple of the baby hats I have completed. Patterns from one of the collections from the talented woolywormhead.
Some carded sky ready for a new project.
It feels good .
What now . Well as we used to say at work , focus and finish!.
Finish my felting course by say October.
Decide where my felting focus will be. This will require some search and experimentation so will not happen over night , maybe September or maybe even December.
Be organized , and have structure to my week. This is little difficult at the moment as I await the birth of my first grandchild , who does not knew anything about planning yet .
And eventually on the medium term move back to the UK
Enough to test my artistic skills and keep my project management skills working I think.
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Congratulations on reaching retirement, I am soooo envious. Just imagine, being able to spend up to 7 days a week creating and dreaming up new projects :)
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