To wonder what retirees do on a grey, wet Tuesday morning

Stay in bed

Must we stay busy? How about reading, with a pot of tea and the cat?

Tuesdays I go to choir.

French class. Stop at the pasty stall on the way to get Cornish pasties for lunch.

Buy a horse.

Naked Sauna.

What do you do at work on a wet Tuesday morning?

Exercises, nails, face mask. Start planning next trip where it's sunny. Read books, travel guides. Make bread for the deep freezer. Give the place a good spring clean. See friends for tea, coffee, make calls, do admin work. Get my agenda in order and organise catch-ups with friends and family. Never a bored day...

Grey Tuesday morning: Sell house
Wednesday: Get on plane at Heathrow
Thursday: Enjoy life in Thailand/Costa Rica/Continental Europe

My local church is fantastic and Tuesdays is community lunch day. It’s a place for all, huge mix of people from immigrants that barely speak English to retired head teachers, and no big religious push. Tuesdays you can get a toastie for breakfast or a lunch and pudding and it’s pay as you feel . I tend to throw £10 in the pot for two coffees and two toasties. They have board games out, a craft group that has a water colour tutor and a few knitters/Crochet. It’s a lovely community space and it’s incredibly beautiful and atmospheric as it dates back to the 1300s. The choir practices around 1 in the afternoon too. It’s very easy to pass a few hours just talking to the regulars and the staff and they are always looking for volunteers for various projects etc. I currently volunteer in the cafe for buffet events as I don’t like customer facing stuff. I also fund raise all year as my sister and I run the free Christmas and Easter meals scheme and also fund the free kids meals and holiday activities. Me and DH are also mother and father christmas so very busy in December. Fridays is live music from 11-1 and it’s HEAVING and has a proper music festival vibe. Friday just gone was the busiest ever and the pews were full of People dancing as there was no space anywhere else.

This is what they don't do..sit in an office with no windows, answering another point less email, correcting other people's work because it's wrong and use computer systems that are not fit for purpose....role on retirement 😉

Exactly. The UK is very well set up for rainy weather activities as we get a lot of it!

Not retired but when I didn’t work I went shopping on Tuesday mornings, it’s very quiet.

I think that to a certain extent, the things you’re currently fitting into weekends and evenings spread out and fill up the day a bit more. So mundane things like shopping, cleaning, phoning a friend, reading, cooking dinner just get done in a less hurried way.
maybe they’ll get up a bit later, they tend to get involved in groups/projects/activities with other retired people so my parents do talking newspaper, Tuesday tea and toast at their local church, volunteer on a few different committees and meet up with various friends and relatives.
they’re always busy and regularly wonder how they managed to fit work in.

My sister and I always said that Mum was busier after she retired than before. She was very involved in her local church, taught English to refugees, met friends for coffee or lunch, went to Aquafit. Sometimes she and Dad would go out for a drive or to visit friends. She also seemed to spend a lot of time getting rid of stuff.😁.

Friday. Apply for visa to get residency in continental European country. Spend lots of money on application and get rejected for no obvious reason. After 90 days return home defeated.

I have 6 years to go. I could imagine retiring now. I like to upcycle things so would stay in and do that as I don't seem to have the time at the moment. I would sell them too to too up my pension as I will only have the state pension to rely on apart from a very small lump sum.

Whatever we damn well please, that's the joy of it!

I’m three months from early retirement, am 57. So am on the slow down and my mind is going there. Already work is starting to interfere with the stuff I wish to do. Gym, see friends, albeit in the evening, go on a day trip, London, museums, cinema, stuff round the house, the cupboards all need doing and rhe wardrobes. I can genuinly see why people say they don’t have time to work.

i woke up this morning and thought it was Monday, and was annoyed as in my head I wanted to go to the gym, change the bed, and do some world class pottering, and thought I’d meetings to attend.

I’m 65, took early retirement at 58. Start off a wet grey weekday luxuriating in bed with a nice cup of tea or two and Mumsnet. Go out and browse a few charity shop bookshelves before going for coffee (local independent chain). In the evening listen to podcasts.

Yes that is what I do.
I do however have a lot of hobbies ( sewing, knitting etc) I don’t get round to doing because we look after our grandchildren quite often. We also holiday a lot ( long haul, Europe and UK).

Whatever you want ….
Stay in bed & dream
Train for a half marathon
Design your garden
Paint a wall or your toenails
That’s the whole point
obviously having a decent retirement income helps .

Retired at 57 and firstly I have to say that I would prefer a wet, grey morning to the relentless heat, sun & clear sky's we have had for the past two Springs & Summers as THAT is more likely to keep me indoors than a bit of rain!

Ddogs always need to be walked and if it is wet (regardless of the day), they will need cleaning after running through puddles, digging in the mud etc. With the heat, these walks have to be done v.early or late.
Garden always needs something doing, even through the winter although sometimes it is nice to just sit under the veranda, listen to the rain, watch the birds and plan the changed for next season.
I have my crafting hobbies and since we moved (THAT is a good way to occupy a year in retirement!) I have workshop space (instead of just a room in the house) so I can do noisy/messy/smelly crafts such as wood turning, pyrography, grinding/shaping stones etc.
We go away in the MoHo for a couple of nights midweek most weeks of the year regardless of the weather (heatwaves excepted), gets us out to new places.
I have my pilates.

Sometimes it is just nice to sit down with a book, a jigsaw etc and just be lazy for a few hours.😁

I sit up in bed and watch people trudging to the tube station to go to work. Followed by a leisurely breakfast, followed by a trip to the British museum to volunteer or to the V&A to wander around the costume court. Then home to a nice early dinner.

Surely anything is better than getting up for work on wet Tuesday morning in winter. I mean, by all means continue to work if that floats your boat. I cannot wait to retire but for many reasons I will either be working until I'm 70, that's if I even live that long.

Perfect for curling up with a good book.