Description

Getting older comes with a few unexpected changes.

Your knees begin providing their own sound effects. Your memory starts deleting important information. And the bathroom mirror becomes brutally honest without being asked.

Retired and Still Dangerous is Graham Cann’s warm, witty and wonderfully irreverent celebration of retirement, aging and all the daily indignities that come with them.

Perfect for anyone who would rather laugh about getting older than pretend it isn’t happening.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• Why your glasses are always in the last place you look — usually on your head
• How the bathroom mirror became your harshest critic
• The hazards of hearing aids, doctors’ waiting rooms and mysterious medication instructions
• Marriage, romance and separate duvets — the sitcom nobody remembers auditioning for
• Why retirement is somehow far busier than having a job
• Grandchildren, smartphones and the noble art of pretending to understand either
• Why the good old days were not always as good as your memory claims
• Funerals, mortality and death by paperwork — approached with just the right amount of irreverence

Packed with hilarious one-liners, memorable quotations and Graham’s own sharply observed humour, this is the ideal book to dip into whenever you need a quick laugh.

Keep it beside the bed, read it on holiday, leave it in the smallest room in the house, or share it with someone who still believes they are the youngest person in the room.

Because growing older is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

A brilliant gift for birthdays, retirement parties, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas stocking fillers, Secret Santas, or for anyone who has ever walked into a room and immediately forgotten why.