The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

Me too…..I was a bit reluctant to get out of bed. We have the first proper frost here. Zero degrees at the moment with a high of 11 later.

We just missed a frost here, 4 celsiuses low overnight. There may have beena few patches in the hollows on lower ground hereabouts.

 

[Gunk]

I changed our bed yesterday and put the winter duvet back on, made it impossible to get up this morning!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Morning

cold this morning
came down first as usual and it was 16 degree in the lounge!

first time this winter I have been the one to put the heating on

 

[postman]

Right, up and atom!

Never trust an atom,they make things up.

 

[postman]

Up early down for two jabs,well they are free and i am a fully paid up member of the Yorkshire clan.

 

[mistyoptic]

I have been to one festival
Radio One festivla when it was in Bangor - I lived there at the time
Went because my daughter was desperate to go

I saw Justin Bieber!!!!!

I was very impressed

not by his music
but by how professional he was - the way it was all done
and the way he interacted with the crowd (mostly girls) was brilliant

AND - I saw Chery Cole
who was terrible
wrost lip sync I have ever seen - even on joke sketches!!
interaction with the crows was - reluctant
body language was "do I have to be here2

awefull


also saw Lost Prophets - who were also brilliant but beyond that he less said about them the better

toilets were fine from what I remember


worst toilets were at RAF Fairford at the RIAT (air show)

ABsolutely disgusting
terrible
had to be breaking several Internation Regulations
people in charge should have been hung drawn and quartered at the very least

I mean - hygiene and cleanliness wish they were OK

BUT THE QUEUE FOR THE GENTS WAS FAR FAR LONGER THAN THE QUEUE FOR THE LADIES!!!!!

Just disgusting!!!

Last time I went to Fairford, some years back, my son was in a wheelchair as he’d broken an ankle. We never had a problem with the toilets 😀

 

[Paulus]

Back in the 70's and early 80's i used to go to Santa Pod raceway to watch the Drag racing. The toilets there where just a large shack with corrugated tin roof and the urinals as such where just a ditch. The traps were just wooden cubicles and you sat on a plank of wood with a hole cut in them, and the proceeds ended up in the same ditch.
Terrible place.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

V.cold but the sky is a clear blue.

Went to bed v.late as we finished binge-watching The Diplomat on Netflix last night. It is very good.

Will probably manage a short walk if my knee holds up.

No other plans to speak of.

Enjoy your day!

 

[Dirk]

Back in the 70's and early 80's i used to go to Santa Pod raceway to watch the Drag racing. The toilets there where just a large shack with corrugated tin roof and the urinals as such where just a ditch. The traps were just wooden cubicles and you sat on a plank of wood with a hole cut in them, and the proceeds ended up in the same ditch.
Terrible place.

The worst toilets I've ever come across were at Santa Pod in the early 80s.
I raced at the Pod several times and they were absolutely disgusting; never seen worse.