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Boomer and bust: Covid is fast-forwarding us into retirement

Covid-19 is fast-forwarding us into retirement

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

1 August 2020

9:00 AM

It was on a foggy walk to Hell’s Mouth that the sea fret lifted and I looked down, down, down at sea smashing against rocks and yes, it felt like a sign.

I was on a socially distanced hols — if we define ‘socially distanced’ as ‘a bunch of mainly metropolitan friends romping in north Cornwall’ — for my summer of 2020 epiphany, which was this.

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