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Celebration & closure: the end of an era

Curmudgeon receives sad news - as Elderly Aunt passes on.

A message from a reader: in search of (a taste of) home?

A "Leserbrief" to the blog. Another long-term Briton in Vienna asks me for tips on fish and chips and curries

CurmudgeonGPT

Curmudgeon explores ChatGPT before reverting to pen and flipchart paper to solve more important issues. He hopes not to have derailed his Nephews dreams of property ownership.

Three score years and ten

Curmudgeon turns a biblical age. Not that this venerable state of affairs will mean he changes his habits, other than maybe more naps.

Curmudgeon reduces his digital footprint

Reducing a digital footprint helped me come to terms of really being retired.

From car-free to care-free travel, but first solving the Coronation Conundrum

Curmudgeon has a new car, but now needs to work out how to celebrate the Coronation following some slight fraternal pressure.

Fast food fads fade fast

Do you remember the first Bubble Tea wave of 2011? The noodle box craze? Queues for Dunkin Donuts? Vegan Burger King? Its all another fast fading fast food fad.

Being called “young” at approaching 70

Curmudgeon unwittingly gets sucked into the cut-throat world of care home stickermania, by octogenarian flattery, which distracts him long enough for a cycle way to appear in front of his home and for a Presidential re-election.

Flummoxed by the emergency services

Curmudgeon has an appointment to make. A simple direct tram journey suddenly seems not quite so simple. Stay cool, Curmudgeon, stay cool!