Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Paralympics and the wonder of retirement



Travelling at rush hour to get to the Paralympics made me realise I have no hankering after keeping on working. It’s not that they were dead-eyed commuters. It’s just that I have no nostalgia at all; I don’t need it.

And we got our Paralympic tickets from someone at church, having failed on the website. When we were both working, we just could not have taken a day off together with no notice. The wonder of retirement.

Sport is a young person’s thing, but it’s nice to see some of the ‘older’ people competing and winning – people in their forties and more. That’s a good thing to see compared with elite Olympic sport.

But there were lots of older people enjoying it, as these pictures show.



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