The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Hi it's me again

Your sure you're you?

 

[Dirk]

Morning all.
Blowing a bit here. I heard our wheelie bins going walkabout at around 3am, so thats the first job this morning.
Off to the Aggi for Sunday carvery later.

 

[welsh dragon]

There's a couple of old Midsomer Murders this afternoon on ITV 3 if you get bored.

I may well end up watching those

 

[Mo1959]

I may well end up watching those

Oh.......so much for looking brighter. Winds just got up and it's flickering with snow!

 

[welsh dragon]

I watched the first episodes of Dracula. I have the last 2 recorded so I might give them a go as well

 

[welsh dragon]

Oh.......so much for looking brighter. Winds just got up and it's flickering with snow!

See. You spoke too soon. Cuddle up with Miss Molly and binge watch something.

 

[BoldonLad]

I'm going to have a bit of a technology day as some of our kit is dying. Mrs P has an iPhone 4 and the family laptop** is almost steam driven. So anyone had good experience recently on:

Budget price smart phones
Budget price laptops
Password managers - I really need to improve our security in this area

* I use a very nice Windows 10 Surface Pro which I won in a competition three years ago. It's mine!! I know it sounds mean but the way Mrs P uses a computer drives me round the twist so to avoid divorce I have to keep this for me.

Don’t have one myself, but, Motorola seem to do good budget phones. If you are willing to pay more, might be worth watching for cut price Samsung S10, new model (S20) is being launched. Both these options will mean a switch to Android.

For PC, depends on usage, if only for Internet, may be worth looking at Chromebook? Alternatively an elderly PC with Ubuntu installed?

 

[BoldonLad]

I love my Apple stuff but it’s bleeding expensive I tried going back to an Android phone, but just can’t take to them. It’s a complete Apple house now, iMac, iPad and iPhone

Same here. Apple is expensive, but, there are no pockets in a shroud.

 

[PaulSB]

@BoldonLad the Samsung suggestion is a good one thanks. If the main user was myself I would definitely go with a Chromebook. However Mrs P will be the main user and I'm wary of her struggling with Google docs even though many differences are small. Plus we have a five user licence for MS Office already.

I'm more inclined to spend time slowly learning how something works. Mrs P is more inclined to the "this doesn't work" and randomly clicking everything approach. It leads to tensions which we've discussed and think best avoided. It's about understanding how the machine thinks!!

 

[PaulSB]

💦 💨 😭

I can still walk after three hours at the Velodrome. 👍Disappointed to know I was 14th out of 17 in the one lap rolling race - 23.95 seconds. That did come 2.5 hours in to the session.

A few guys are going out at 11.00 but even that looks extraordinarily hopeful

I shall finish off sorting out my Vietnam photos.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have a Samsung S8. Great phone. Easy to use. Nice sized screen. I like Samsung stuff. And a Samsung galaxy tablet is excellent as well.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My phones a Nokia 3.1, my tablet is a Lenovo E10. I've had Samsung phones in the past and they've been very good, I like the Lenovo tablets, this is the second one I've had, the first one was a Tab 4 with a 8" screen, this one has a 10" screen, I found the 8" a bit small for films and catch up TV.

 

[gavroche]

Morning. Walk done. Dry until a little shower came on just 500 yards from home. Looks like being a decent day with some sun later.

You took a shower outiside, 500 yards from home?

 

[gavroche]

We are invited for lunch at my brother's in law, up in the hills on the other side of Caernarfon on the road to Porthmadog. Judging by the weather here, I expect it will be very windy and very wet there. I will take my wellies, just in case.

 

[Dave7]

We are invited for lunch at my brother's in law, up in the hills on the other side of Caernarfon on the road to Porthmadog. Judging by the weather here, I expect it will be very windy and very wet there. I will take my wellies, just in case.

Many years ago we were in Bedd Gelert and cut off by floods as the Glaslyn had burst its banks. We tried to run for home via the Porthmadog-Caernarfon road but a landslide prevented that.
Wellies, blankets, hot drinks etc is advised