The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

There's an interesting article here on turning off some of Google and Facebooks tracking.

https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/how-to-stop-facebook-and-google-from-spying-on-you

I don't use Google as a browser anymore, I use DuckDuckgo instead. And I have an email address that isn't tied to Google either.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I don't use Google as a browser anymore, I use DuckDuckgo instead. And I have an email address that isn't tied to Google either.

I use DuckDuck go as well, my main E-Mail is Mail.com, I have a Gmail account but never use it.

 

[Mo1959]

Bizarrely I have only this minute received an email supposedly from Google saying someone knows my password and to log in and change it! I suspect not genuine, but since I don't use it anyway I will ignore.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good Morning all, damp and dismal here, three degrees.
Very samey here too. Is that why lots of people have been putting up Christmas decorations early, to break the monotony ?
We’re taking the opposite approach, we’re not going to put decorations up at all this year, doesn’t seem worth the effort.

 

[Mo1959]

Good Morning all, damp and dismal here, three degrees.
Very samey here too. Is that why lots of people have been putting up Christmas decorations early, to break the monotony ?
We’re taking the opposite approach, we’re not going to put decorations up at all this year, doesn’t seem worth the effort.

I've never bothered since I lost mum 23 years ago! It's just another day for me I'm afraid.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good Morning all, damp and dismal here, three degrees.
Very samey here too. Is that why lots of people have been putting up Christmas decorations early, to break the monotony ?
We’re taking the opposite approach, we’re not going to put decorations up at all this year, doesn’t seem worth the effort.

I'm trying to scale back the Xmas decorations, I've been putting them up every year for about 40 years and now I'm thinking its time to stop, but the family isn't impressed and want me to keep going, so I've said this year only the tree's going up.

 

[BoldonLad]

I am feeling SO rich, received my £10 Christmas Bonus today, thank you Prudent Gordon (remember him?).

I will have to take the rest of the day to plan how to spend it

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Watched a most interesting Winterwatch special about the 1963 winter last night, it had been on a few years ago but it was worth watching again. No doubt some on here will remember it from the time, not me, I wasn’t born until a few months after it finished. Amazing film footage of digging out houses/trains/cars, state of the art graphics, a view of the transport network pre Beeching and pre motorway, and an almost casual mention of lives lost. And an insight too into how the nation coped with a national catastrophe of a severity that hasn’t been matched until now. Quite fascinating.

 

[pawl]

I am feeling SO rich, received my £10 Christmas Bonus today, thank you Prudent Gordon (remember him?).

I will have to take the rest of the day to plan how to spend it

Got mine today .Still waiting for the heating payment

 

[numbnuts]

I'm up, it's a bit outside and foggy too, won't be going far today unless it warms up that's for sure

 

[oldwheels]

I am feeling SO rich, received my £10 Christmas Bonus today, thank you Prudent Gordon (remember him?).

I will have to take the rest of the day to plan how to spend it

Gordon once gave me a rise in my state pension. 2 pence per month.

 

[Dirk]

Got mine today .Still waiting for the heating payment

Is the bonus just paid automatically?

 

[oldwheels]

Another nice day and beautiful sunrise but cold and the cars are all white with frost. I have to go on an errand later today and hope my garden path has thawed a bit. I was out yesterday on a particularly bad bit of road where the winter sun never reaches and it had not been gritted.
Flashing lights woke me about 0530 this morning as gritter was doing the town streets so perhaps they have got round to the main road.
Latest news is a Cheviot tup has gone walkabout from a croft a couple of hundred yards from my garden. Not seen in the town and unlikely to be stolen but you never know. There are eyes watching everywhere here and somebody would have noticed anything suspicious.

 

[Mo1959]

Watched a most interesting Winterwatch special about the 1963 winter last night, it had been on a few years ago but it was worth watching again. No doubt some on here will remember it from the time, not me, I wasn’t born until a few months after it finished. Amazing film footage of digging out houses/trains/cars, state of the art graphics, a view of the transport network pre Beeching and pre motorway, and an almost casual mention of lives lost. And an insight too into how the nation coped with a national catastrophe of a severity that hasn’t been matched until now. Quite fascinating.

I would have been 4 so don't remember it but dad often talked about it. Snow piled up at the sides of the road way over the height of your head. Unlike now when a dusting of snow seems to bring things to a halt, things almost carried on as normal. Schools still on and people got to work.

 

[welsh dragon]

I wasn't in the UK then so I don't remember it either.

I don't bother with Christmas decorations either. They are just dust catchers. Ba humbug.