My friends have asked me how I am enjoying retirement. I’m as busy as it have ever been. I served an apprenticeship as a watchmaker with my late father, in my teens and early 20s. Evolved into jewellery store management for 25 years. I have a GIA diploma in diamond grading and appraising. I left retail jewellery 30 years ago, so today, I dabble. Watch repair, clock repair, maintaining tower clocks, belong to numerous musical groups (I play old-time fiddle), collecting pocket and wrist watches, marine chronometers, a few clocks. I have a hobby car which occupies some week ends during the summer. We camp a lot during the summer, with a group of friends. We have traveled in Europe five times since 2000, but won’t be doing any more of that in the future. As my late father used to say, if he knew where he was going to be the day he died, he’d keep to hell away from the damned place!