Retirement for me just meant staying at home to work, doing the dogs!! Having said that, it has served us well, having come down here with nothing, and needing to stay home to look after a not-very-well SWMBO.
DWP basically did nothing for us, she got the old Disability Benefit until they changed the name to ESA, then a year later they told us you only qualified for this for 12 months. I got nothing, but still had to stay at home to look after her. That’s how the dogs came about.
They’ve seen us through until my Pensions came in and they changed the rules so Anne could take hers early. Every time we talk about retirement, it seems another project comes along so it needs to be deferred!! :sob::sob: Still at least we’ve squeezed in our first proper holiday for 9 years?. 5 1/2 weeks to go!!!
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