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I've expressed to my friend all of those positive things Lottie.
She does have quite a highly powered job (so did I once), but I think another reason she doesn't want to retire quite yet, is because her husband did so last year! She says that it'll be a novelty at first for them to do things together, but that it will soon wear off!
That's the price you pay of living to work & not working to live!
I'm already quite busy with one thing & another, but when my husband retires, we'll be even busier out & about!
You only live once!