Hello and welcome to my blog. Here I will discuss general activity around my life as a thirty-something early retiree. I have had an interesting career - I started out as an analyst, went on to build analytical software tools that were used to trade power and made good money as a result of stock options in the company I worked for. This along with the income I had earned over the years meant that it was possible for me to retire in my thirties. As we stand talking here now, it has been 18 months since I did an honest days work - and so far I am much the happier for all the changes, and have replaced the grind of the working week with a balance between enjoyment - via walks, cycles and trips out - and productive activities - such as investment analysis. At the moment, the money I invest funds my income and here I plan to share with you some of my unusual path through life. At times this is likely to be a very unstructured tale - but my plan is that once a week I will write an artic...