Mundane News

[Illaveago]

Morning.
Lovely clear sky here which is brightening up as I write . Might be a good day .
I thought I would just stir the peeps up on the retirement thread! . Just watched a bit on Good Morning Britain where a 25 year old was saying that retired peeps are lazy and should get out to work . He doesn't want to fund us !
He is lucky he didn't start work way back in the late 60's early 70's. The tricks workers used to play on the newbies then !

 

[Illaveago]

Why do people like to plump up their lips ?
I didn't like the look when my inner tube did it !

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Morning.
Lovely clear sky here which is brightening up as I write . Might be a good day .
I thought I would just stir the peeps up on the retirement thread! . Just watched a bit on Good Morning Britain where a 25 year old was saying that retired peeps are lazy and should get out to work . He doesn't want to fund us !
He is lucky he didn't start work way back in the late 60's early 70's. The tricks workers used to play on the newbies then !

He's a cheeky sod, I started work in 1967 at 15, the school leaving age then, I'd already had a paper round for a year, I did manual labour till I was 64, I retired a year early, I now have an arthritic hip that sometimes keeps me awake at night and a worn out back, I also have a disabled wife that I care for.

 

[raleighnut]

He's a cheeky sod, I started work in 1967 at 15, the school leaving age then, I'd already had a paper round for a year, I did manual labour till I was 64, I retired a year early, I now have an arthritic hip that sometimes keeps me awake at night and a worn out back, I also have a disabled wife that I care for.

Yep, who paid for his education/healthcare when he was a sprog.

 

[oldwheels]

Dry so far but showers forecast. Anyway got some bread on rising and that is the extent of my physical exertions for today.
At least I got out for a trike run yesterday before the rain came on but it was pretty cold and far too much traffic. Frightening how fitness vanishes so quickly with even a short time off.
I think the holiday home owners are now coming to patronise us and tell us how lucky we are to have them bringing all these tourists all summer to the houses local workers cannot get.
The entitled berks on the ferry the other day who drove me to spend the trip out on the open deck were such people.Strange that one of them looked so much like Johnson. Mebbe the one in London is a body double.

 

[Illaveago]

I did a paper round for WHS back in the 60's. At times the bag could be b****y heavy, especially if the monthly magazines coincided with the Telegraph supplement! I covered 4miles on my round . The Daily Sketch used to cause alarm when I picked it out of my bag to discover that half of it was missing ! I was relieved to find that on some occasions it only had 2 pages .

 

[rockyroller]

Happy Friday!

 

[Mo1959]

I thought I would just stir the peeps up on the retirement thread! .

You'll need to try harder......never noticed!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Morning. After waking around 4am, I went back to sleep with England only 2 wickets down. Miraculously, they were only 2 wickets down when I eventually got up.

The scaffolding has now been up for so long it's now become an adventure playground for kids with nothing else to do. Yesterday evening at around 7pm there were 3 youngsters outside my 5th floor window. ''We're not here to nick anything,'' ''Please don't call the police," ''We were bored.'' So I'm going to have to get the council to make sure that the scaffolding is scamp-proof before someone gets seriously injured or killed.

 

[cookiemonster]

I'm having two mince pies

 

[mybike]

Sounds like a nice bit of glass

I love my 50 1.8 - it's not macro though, but a fabby little lens.

It's a s/h SMC Pentax-M. I have some tubes. It's a case of slow down, get it right, don't rely on the camera.

It;s the thing you notice with digital cameras, you don't run out of film, but you do run out of storage and you do take photos you'd otherwise not have bothered with.

My Pentax 50mm f1.2 has 'macro' capabilities but I tend to use the Tamron Adaptall SP90 f2.4 with the matching extension tube for true 1:1
for that

I've just got fed up with the auto capabilities that don't do what I want in close up. I could have used a 42mm thread Tessar, I have but the Pentax won't need an adapter.

 

[Oldhippy]

I'm having two mince pies

Whether they like it or not. 😁

 

[tyred]

I've been using Opera web browser for many years over several PCs and it's been my preferred choice.

I'm not sure if it's updated itself or something but the glacial performance of my laptop over the past week or so seems to be related to Opera if I try to use it. I've discovered that all seems to run perfectly if I use Edge.

 

[tyred]

Now it seems Flickr is down!

 

[Oldhippy]

I've been using Opera web browser for many years over several PCs and it's been my preferred choice.

I'm not sure if it's updated itself or something but the glacial performance of my laptop over the past week or so seems to be related to Opera if I try to use it. I've discovered that all seems to run perfectly if I use Edge.

Do you have to stop for an interval every now and then?