The Long Service Index — Personalised Retirement Gifts
The Retirement Gift Co.

Stage 4 of 4

The next chapter

The send-off itself: the party, the card, and the words people reach for.

A weathered wooden garden bench among roses at sunset, with a cup of tea and a folded blanket on the seat.

The gift is only part of the day. There's a room to organise, a card going round that everyone has to write something in, and a few words owed at the end of it. These pages cover that half: how the send-off is usually run, and what to say when it's your turn to write.

The reading, in order

The whole path

The path ends here. The first stage starts back at what to give, and the journal holds every piece of writing on this site.

Written by Craig Fearn, The Retirement Gift Co.

From the journal