The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Stick the kettle on then please......another cuppa is required........and since I have a cat on my knee, maybe you could bring it through too?

So sorry Mo, I didn't hear you in my rush to get out........

 

[PaulSB]

Did someone mention putting the kettle on? Coffee. Milk. 1 sugar if you please.

Sorry, didn't hear you either.........I'll put my hearing aids in tomorrow 🤔

 

[PaulSB]

I have been knitting. Exciting or what. A hat and a scarf ensemble

Mrs P has some left over wool from another project....... She's currently on the fourth bobble hat.

 

[PaulSB]

So we dodged the showers, picked up a couple of strays and got a takeaway coffee. Decent 36 miles. Also bumped in to 13 other club members in various size groups. Excellent.

My bike is dirty. 😭 It's now hailing 😭 Mrs P is out. Bathroom? Shower room? ........or a bucket in the backyard 🤔

 

[JPBoothy]

Sorry for being the party pooper!


That is absolutely incorrect!

For example, the 'Spanish' flu*** of 1918 killed tens of millions of people round the world.

Doctors and governments have known the risks of deadly pandemics for hundreds of years. Measles, the Black Death, Smallpox... etc.

That is why they were getting so scared when Sars 1 came along, and Swine flu, bird flu, Ebola and so on...

Government research a couple of years ago into the risk of a Covid-like pandemic concluded that it was highly possible that this could happen and that we would not be ready for it. They ignored the report's findings...

Many people STILL aren't taking this SERIOUSLY enough. My sister actually asked me yesterday if I wanted to go to spend Christmas with her in Devon. If that isn't an example of the stupid "You CAN, but you SHOULDN'T" message, then I don't know what is!

*** Strictly, 'American' flu, since it is now known to have come from a military camp in Kansas.

I knew that I was incorrect with my 'sweeping' statement as my sausage fingers were tapping away but I was hoping that nobody would notice.. Damn you and your sharp mind from those puzzles Mr J

I will replace it with 'not many' of the new breed of finger pointers (Politicians) will have had experience in dealing with a Pandemic

I also mentioned yesterday that I too have relatives with the selfish/stupid attitude of "oh, it will be alright to meet up" attitude towards the Covid situation.

 

[welsh dragon]

Mrs P has some left over wool from another project....... She's currently on the fourth bobble hat.

Just made 1 and a scarf

 

[Dirk]

Added Christmas bonus........went to the bar to pay our bill and landlord said it was on the house.
What can I say?

 

[pawl]

Brunch today will be mince pie, banana and fresh cream.

Had a banana pancake for lunch following a pleasant sixteen miler

 

[JPBoothy]

Been out for a look at my front garden. That is as far as it goes for some time yet as I hope something will appear to hide the weeds.
Snowdrops are showing through as well as what are probably daffodils. There is an albino one down there somewhere but I may have given it to DIL who is keen on gardening. Something else is also showing but not sure what it could be. Different from the daffs and could be bluebells but a bit too early for them I think.
There is also a hydrangea which needs drastic trimming but a saw is needed for that. My tubs are a bit scrappy tho' the wild strawberries are in flower. Weeds are growing through the mesh so I really must get some enthusiasm gathered up.
A neighbour is a fanatic and spents nearly every day digging out weeds. They have a cat which I noticed the other day leaving her a little present for the next time she gets her hands in there.

I'm scared to stand on my grass in fear of sinking after so much rain of late.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been for a walk through Holbrook Park this afternoon.

 

[classic33]

Been out for a look at my front garden. That is as far as it goes for some time yet as I hope something will appear to hide the weeds.
Snowdrops are showing through as well as what are probably daffodils. There is an albino one down there somewhere but I may have given it to DIL who is keen on gardening. Something else is also showing but not sure what it could be. Different from the daffs and could be bluebells but a bit too early for them I think.
There is also a hydrangea which needs drastic trimming but a saw is needed for that. My tubs are a bit scrappy tho' the wild strawberries are in flower. Weeds are growing through the mesh so I really must get some enthusiasm gathered up.
A neighbour is a fanatic and spents nearly every day digging out weeds. They have a cat which I noticed the other day leaving her a little present for the next time she gets her hands in there.

A cat with hands!!
Is this some local breed.

 

[welsh dragon]

Now we have hail. All we need now is snow and we will have a full house as far as weather goes today

 

[Juan Kog]

So we dodged the showers, picked up a couple of strays and got a takeaway coffee. Decent 36 miles. Also bumped in to 13 other club members in various size groups. Excellent.

My bike is dirty. 😭 It's now hailing 😭 Mrs P is out. Bathroom? Shower room? ........or a bucket in the backyard 🤔

Car wash , you and the bike clean and shiny in one go

 

[ColinJ]

I also mentioned yesterday that I too have relatives with the selfish/stupid attitude of "oh, it will be alright to meet up" attitude towards the Covid situation.

I would be more charitable and call it 'unwisely and hopelessly optimistic'!

The new variant of the virus made it impossible for Boris to carry on with his 'Merry Little Christmas' idea, but it really wasn't sensible to come up with the special 5-day Christmas rules in the first place.

I think it would take a few really well-known people (including several under 30) to die from Covid-19 before everybody really started to take it seriously. If Trump had died, that might have focussed a few minds in the USA. Actually, his supporters would probably then have said that the virus hadn't got him, he'd been poisoned!

Apparently, social media nuts are now saying that footage of vaccinations is all faked.

Right... time for some last minute Amazon Christmas shopping!

 

[GM]

Mud Mud glorious mud, over the park this morning it's everywhere, Alan 🐶 is smothered again another a bath called for. It was the same yesterday, that's two baths in two days, more than I had all year! I'm a shower man