The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

I don't have a driving licence. I did get one many many years ago to use as an ID document but never renewed it.

 

[Binky]

Morning.
Phew what a scorcha. Very hot last night, tough to sleep. I woke early hours as did the wife so I asked her if she was also boiling hot, she said she was then asked "shall I put the summer duvet on the bed"? What! We still have a thick winter one on apparently 😂. It was obvious I suppose or should have been but why it hadn't been changed before mid summer is a good question. Anyway, it is now!

As for rest of day, the inevitable tip trip with piles of tree/hedge cuttings then a bike ride methinks.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Will be generally chilling out today after I've taken a trailer load of garden rubbish down to the tip.

 

[Drago]

Just ordered the new edition of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge on vinyl. Far better than Tubular Bells, onenkf my favourite Oldfield records. Looking forward to that.

 

[PeteXXX]

I think I'd need a manual to tell me where to put the key in PeteXXX's truck. 😲

I'll take a photo for you when I'm next in one 😂

 

[Drago]

@PeteXXX 's favourite song.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7V-FSOSO0&pp=ygUQSSBsaWtlIHRydWNraW5nIA%3D%3D

 

[gbb]

Just ordered the new edition of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge on vinyl. Far better than Tubular Bells, onenkf my favourite Oldfield records. Looking forward to that.

I loved both (and Ommadawn tbf)

 

[gbb]

Morning all. Girls watered fed and off to school, breakfast for my wife made, currently battening down the hatches for the forthcoming heat, bedroom windows and curtains closed. Hope to do some more decorating today...

 

[Drago]

Ommadawn also very good. Im in a minority in that I love Five Miles Out. Not a fan favourite, but one of Oldfield's favourites.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I've never enjoyed driving an automatic as I find it difficult to make the car respond as I wish. I'm probably old school but on a twisting, often climbing road like the A82/A85, I like to change from 4th to 3rd to drive through a bend. At low speeds, as yesterday, my car actually needs this. If we'd been travelling faster, 45/50, that wouldn't be necessary. It's a question of control, not boy racering.

I love cruise control and use it at every opportunity but I've never heard of adaptive cruise control. I wouldn't buy a car without cruise control and air-conditioning.

Mine has 2 paddles at the side of the steering wheel so I can change gear up and down as well as just letting "teh system" decide what gear to be in

If I want I can even put in the S mode where I use the padels and it become like semi auto

Having said which the manual say it is not automatic but CVT - continuors Variable Transmission
so it does have actual gears just a - err - something else
presumably like an old Daf
anyway - it can be rather clunky at times.
normally it is much easier but at times it can be indecisive about which gear to choose
and sometimes even changes up the down then up again - while my foot is not moving on the accelerator

anyway - much easier to drive
but if I had to chaneg tomorrow I would go back to manual

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just back from my jog, scorchio!

 

[Drago]

I do miss jogging

 

[accountantpete]

Cats, plants and myself watered - in that order until early doors when the process is reversed.

 

[PeteXXX]

I do miss jogging

I don't.. 👍

 

[numbnuts]

Cats, plants and myself watered - in that order until early doors when the process is reversed.



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