The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

Grandkids are coming over this afternoon and staying the night

Happens quite often during school hols as their parents are both working - their Mum works Wedneday through the weekend normally

not sure what we will do tomorrow - but looks like 1 or two short walks - we shall see

 

[Exlaser2]

Morning all . Wow it’s a little warm today already.
Well I seem to have been dragged into areas of this forum I’ve never been before and I don’t mean the political threads . 😀 After making the silly decision to disagree with a railway enthusiast on the RIP Bill Oddie thread . I ended up on the Railway Enthusiast thread . Well all I will say is I won’t be visiting again 😂 ( At this point I must make my apologies to @Paulus as I know he does visit there and this isn’t directed at him 🙂)
Anyway have a good day everyone and try and stay as cool as you can .

 

[Dave7]

Cheers thanks for the advice and the kind words
She does try and do these things . It’s what so frustrating as the feed back she gets about her interview technique is always good and very positive but she doesn’t get the job. ☹️

Something else I learned.
The interviewer might have narrowed the prospects down and be genuinely struggling to decide.
If possible, tell her to phone the interviewer, ask him if he has made any decision and tell him how much she wants to work for THAT COMPANY and why. Again it might swing it.
NB
When i was a divisional manager for a company owned by Shell I was struggling to decide between 2 applicant. I favoured A but applicant B phoned me as above......I gave him the job.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Hello again from the café in Upton County Park. I have just demolished a slice of cherry cake and am glugging on a " Jimmy's Mocha Iced Coffee ". I have cut short my planned walk as my legs are feeling weary after only 4k🤔. I shall head back home and try again tomorrow. As I approached the café I saw a load of people setting up gazebos, it's the Dorset Wildlife Trust who are having a free children's activity day😎

 

[Dave7]

Back from my walk. Managed spot on 4 miles.
Good job i took a bottle of juice.
Part of the walk takes me through the former green belt woodland which has now gone for them to build 1200 houses. The footpath has been a right of way for hundreds of years but cranes and wagons have really churned it up in parts.
Some photos of interest.

The 1200 houses mean there is nowhere for surface water to drain so they have built 2 of these collection ponds.

This is the right of way. You can see the footpath goes over the M62 which was built in 1972......the had to built the bridge to maintain right of way.
the footpath splits here and was as far as I got. It was hot hot hot.