The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Yep......like they need to borrow money.

They just aren't in a position to start a family.

I was 21. Mrs D was 19. I earned 15 quid a week. Lived in a 2 up 2 down with no bathroom and a bog at the bottom of the yard. We started a family and cut our cloth blah blah blah. Happy days we still reminisce about.
Different generation........different world now innit.

 

[Goldy]

Not the hospital I hope? Very close to me then.

In the castle. Warners, no kids allowed

 

[Dave7]

In the castle. Warners, no kids allowed

Attended a wedding there once, very nice. My nephew. Wedding cost a fortune. Divorced 5 years later .

 

[PaulSB]

I was 21. Mrs D was 19. I earned 15 quid a week. Lived in a 2 up 2 down with no bathroom and a bog at the bottom of the yard. We started a family and cut our cloth blah blah blah. Happy days we still reminisce about.
Different generation........different world now innit.

Yep. Mrs P and I had been wed five years when she fell pregnant. No discussion, no planning it just happened. Two more arrived in the same way and Mrs P then announced I was getting the snip!!!

We budgeted, holidays changed etc. etc. We lived off one wage for years and made it work.

Very tough to do that today.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I retired at 48 and then got bored after a year so I set up a small business to keep my end in. ( )

I didn't want to get as boring as you lot are.

Might retire again in the next year or two when Lovely Wife finally makes up her mind if she is to retire early or not.

PS: I've officially got Man Flu and feel crap.

 

[Dave7]

I retired at 48 and then got bored after a year so I set up a small business to keep my end in. ( )

I didn't want to get as boring as you lot are.

Might retire again in the next year or two when Lovely Wife finally makes up her mind if she is to retire early or not.

PS: I've officially got Man Flu and feel crap.

At 48
What were you?
Fireman?
Bobby?
Forces?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

At 48
What were you?
Fireman?
Bobby?
Forces?

Managing Director of a legal company - overpaid Tory voter.

 

[Dave7]

Managing Director of a legal company - overpaid Tory voter.

Well in that case why arent you running this country?
You could pick your party members from just this section of CC

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've been retired for 5 years. 2.5 of those I was on dialysis. Now I just spend time on my own pottering around

Pleased that pottering around is going well

 

[classic33]

I went to Wales............once.......it rained

Went once when it was snowing, I got mild heatstroke.

 

[classic33]

I got a little 51 mile pootle in this morning, a ride that was pretty much the same as most of the rides I've done over the last few weeks, hard work into the breeze and a bit cool at first but warming up nicely as the ride went on. The only thing of note was getting very close to a bird of pray on Holly lane in Balsall Common on the way out, it was hunting above the verge on my left and when it saw me it flew up into the tree on my right.

On it's knees was it?

 

[PaulSB]

Well in that case why arent you running this country?
You could pick your party members from just this section of CC

...........and your opposition

 

[PaulSB]

OK so son and partner have been.........................now I have to decide if I want to be granddad or grandpa.

 

[roadrash]

OK so son and partner have been.........................now I have to decide if I want to be granddad or grandpa.

Congratulations to all concerned, grandad is best but I may be biased as I am one

 

[classic33]

OK so son and partner have been.........................now I have to decide if I want to be granddad or grandpa.

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