The Retirement Thread

[Shearwater Missile]

The WSR is a 'heritage railway' not a mainline service.

Thanks. Although the Jacobite train is a heritage railway, it runs on the mainline track. That is probably the reason then. Hope you enjoyed your trip.

 

[Exlaser2]

Night night all .

 

[PeteXXX]

Morning campers 👋

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
A sunny start to the day here.
Today we are off into London.
We are having breakfast at an Indian restaurant called Dishoom and then MrsP wants to go to Regents Park to visit the newly opened Queen Elizabeth garden.

 

[Dave7]

Morning all.
Went to bed late (for me) and slept heavy.
Going to be a nice day me thinks.
Off to the local pub for a lunch and cabaret at 12.00.
Nowt else to do so might do a Numbnuts on the sunbed for a couple of hours after the pub.

 

[welsh dragon]

Coooee. 8 deg here. We are expecting 18 deg with lots of sun. It was nice here in the afternoon.

Stay safe peeps

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. The sun has returned but don't know about the temperature yet because I am still in bed.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Shopping and dog walking this morning.
Stuff to do in my workshop later.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. Brilliant sunshine and not a cloud to be seen. I slept very well, this is a good thing. I have experienced some password related stress today. I'm Treasurer for our u3a which is a charity. We claim Gift Aid on donations, that's my job. I have a document in which I keep details such as HMRC and Charity Commission log ins. At some point I must have decided to password protect this document which I haven't needed to open for a year or more..................this morning I spent a happy 20 minutes playing password roulette!!! Found it and then spent a sweaty 20 minutes completing the online HMRC Gift Aid submission. It's quite simple but needs total concentration as a single wrong entry/key stroke will result in rejection of the spreadsheet.

I'm not a great DIYer, today I've got a guy coming to rebuild a fence and gate on the allotment. Yes, I could do this. It would take me days. The result wouldn't be very good. I don't want to do it. Norman on the other hand will do an excellent job in two days in exchange for some folding stuff.

Off to Blackpool this afternoon to see Sunny Afternoon, the musical charting the Kinks rise to stardom. Seven of us from the village are going on a pensioners outing. We will head off to eat somewhere afterwards. I'm excited to see this, I love Ray Davies lyrics and music and for me the Kinks are as fresh and new today as they were in the 60s

 

[PeteXXX]

A few games of Sudoku have been completed..
That's my brain kicked into action for the day 😂

 

[PaulSB]

Have you done that route before?
Couple of sections will need decent tyres and Birchwood can be very busy.

Thanks, Dave. I hadn't ridden all of it but one of my buddies had the route as far as Culceth before. I ride 40mm tyres o my gravel bike so this was fine and we were off road, trails, cycle paths etc. for +/- 68 miles of the 70 we rode. I doubt if we did more than 500 yards on tarmac in your neck of the woods. It's astonishing where and how far one can go without encountering a car.

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks and best wishes to Mo with her dietary dilemma's
Being at the front of cycling fashion ahem... ive splashed out on a jersey in readiness for not having to wear a jacket! did i look for a cycling specific garment? nope. just typed in 'merino jumper mens medium' on good old ebay after whittling down a few thousand jumpers a splendid example in red is in the post, the local cycling community will be in awe when cutting a dash in such style! 😍

 

[Mo1959]

Morning folks and best wishes to Mo with her dietary dilemma's
Being at the front of cycling fashion ahem... ive splashed out on a jersey in readiness for not having to wear a jacket! did i look for a cycling specific garment? nope. just typed in 'merino jumper mens medium' on good old ebay after whittling down a few thousand jumpers a splendid example in red is in the post, the local cycling community will be in awe when cutting a dash in such style! 😍

There's still some bargains to be had on eBay. I recently got a lightly used Marmot jacket that I'm very pleased with.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Morning all, Sunny and windy in Suffolk. One thing is guaranteed and that is, if I get a ride in this afternoon one way or another i will get a head wind. Why could`nt it be like Monday again with little wind ? Anyway, sticking to the lanes with hedges should help.

 

[Chief Broom]

There's still some bargains to be had on eBay. I recently got a lightly used Marmot jacket that I'm very pleased with.

My greatest ever bargain on ebay was a Heine Gerrick goretex motorcyle jacket and trousers for .....£12.50 the jacket alone cost £350 and that was years ago