The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Its for Fourth Reich Railways, 20 hours a week wearing a uniform and goosestepping everywhere.

Do you get to wear a monocle?

PS. Feeling a bit better today.

 

[Drago]

Well done Papa Dirkie. I'm only just over the lingering remains of my cold.

I don't know about the monocle, but I'm pretty sure I get a Luger.

 

[Dirk]

I don't know about the monocle, but I'm pretty sure I get a Luger.

Excellent!
I had one of those when I was a kid.
Uncle brought it back from Germany after the war.
Can't remember what happened to it....lost in the mists of time.

 

[Drago]

I know a chap who kept a Luger to repel night time callers. I made him get shot of it when his local plod had a gun amnesty.

 

[Dirk]

I know a chap who kept a Luger to repel night time callers. I made him get shot of it when his local plod had a gun amnesty.

I used to use mine when we played Cowboys and Indians .....and it wasn't deactivated. Fortunately my uncle never gave me the ammo for it!

 

[Drago]

As a kid there was still plenty of guns and ammo in circulation from the war. We used to put rounds in my dads vice in the shed and whack them with a hammer! How we lived to retirement is beyond me.

Anyway, I intend to spend much of today settled down with the latest Jack Reacher book.

 

[Dirk]

Still feeling a bit under the weather, but taking doggie for a gentle stroll on the beach in a bit, then cleaning my touring bike which was unceremoniously dumped in the garage when we got back from our Tour de Cotswolds 10 days ago.
Hoping to have shaken this bug off completely by next week, as we are off for a weeks cycling in Dorset. Feel like I could just about manage a flat 5 miler at the moment! If things don't improve enough, we will just have to chill out in the caravan instead of ride.

 

[Drago]

Shoulder getting worse, not sleeping terribly well. Co codamol leaving me more bunged up than the M25 on a bank holiday weekend.

 

[Dirk]

Cocodamol is nasty stuff.
Had it prescribed once for back pain. Took 4 tablets over a day, as prescribed. Never again! Had to go home from w**k as I was so spaced out and didn't have a 'movement' for 3 days. I preferred the pain and a good dump.

 

[Drago]

Yeah, 2 tablets 4 x daily. Had a bad reaction to Naproxen so the GP is being cautious.

Doc has given me some laxative stuff, bit I'm just about managing to keep everything down there working without it.

 

[Dirk]

What's up with your shoulder?

 

[Drago]

Tendon impingement. Not responding to injections or physio, so being referred for surgery. Another visit to the dremmel wielding mad man

 

[Dirk]

Shoulders are pretty complex joints. I did mine many years ago when I came off a motorbike. Hard impact into tarmac - ouch! Fortunately, I don't suffer any real after effects apart from not being able to raise one arm as high as the other.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Although I am now in receipt of my pension from the bank where I used to work, and it will be enough to live on month to month, I have found myself 2 weeks work, starting today, at a local NHS clinic. I am sitting in reception as I type this, not exactly rushed off my feet!

The job will provide a little extra "pocket money" for the next couple of weeks, but it also means I wont get to spend as much time with my new guitar as I would like. It's due to be delivered tomorrow.

Getting up at 6.30 this morning was a bit horrid....... but at least I finish at 4.00

 

[Dirk]

......Getting up at 6.30 this morning was a bit horrid.......

I've forgotten that time of the day existed......