An Introduction

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 article on a topic of interest or relevance to my daily activities. At times this will share how I spend my time as an early retiree, while at others it will dip into my interests in investments in more detail.

I hope that it will occasionally be interesting, and I hope that you will enjoy coming along the for the journey, but I will not babble on. Instead let's just get on with those stories.