The Retirement Thread

[pawl]

I wondered what all the fuss about marmite was so bought a jar. Bloody vile stuff



I was going to send you a Christmas presentation pack of ten jars of Marmite Shan’t bother now 😞😞😞

 

[pawl]

Morning It's freezing and a bit sparkly out there

Two slices of hot toast thickly sptead with Marmite will keep the cold out😛😛😛

 

[pawl]

Morning all

Hitching up in a couple of hours and towing down to Okehampton.
I've a feeling that we may end up in tier 4 on Boxing Day, so we might end up locked down on Dartmoor. I can think of worse things.

Yes I hear the prison officers are quite nice

 

[welsh dragon]

Looks like we are in for more rain today.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I think I have made an error.
I made my coffee. There was some single cream open Its very sickly and is about to go down the drain.
This morning is decidedly . It was supposed to rain at 11.00 but those weather people obviously can't tell the time.
Doing my final Aldi dash of the year at 0745.
Then we are visiting the auntie. Bit of a pain as its a 20 mile round trip. But as I have said, she is a very generous woman so its not begrudged.
Black bin is out......a day early with christmas but we remembered

We always put double cream in our coffee.

 

[pawl]

First job of the day done, These days I'm master of the medication, Wednesday's I load my Good ladies pill box for for the following week, note if any want ordering and get them ordered, I also load my own pill box if needed.

I keep a Thompson machine gun in my pill box plus a bayonet.They don’t like it up them Mr Manering.

 

[oldwheels]

Frosty start but now sunny. Outside temp is still 0C. I had hoped to get out on trike this morning but the probable ice on my usual route and low sun does not make for a safe combination. Not so much myself but vehicles not seeing me and skidding when they brake is likely.
I have to go and collect some frozen food from a pal's house out in the sticks which means a couple of main road miles on a road where the sun never shines in winter and so never thaws. Can get very dodgy and the gritters did not waken me this morning as they usually do so possibly not gritted.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Mrs Tenkay has been mainly vegan for quite a while, it’s certainly helped her with her “ tummy troubles “ there are some very good alternatives to dairy available now if dairy is not your thing, ( and also some pretty dire ones )
Don’t know what happened there, this message was supposed to be a comment on @SpokeyDokey message

 

[oldwheels]

Sherry ????
Please don't tell me you will drink it

Decent sherry is pretty good but hard to get. One of Ledaig Distillery directors was Miguel Domecq of that ilk. The only man who cowed wine waiters in my experience but he introduced us to some really nice sherry.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

It may be chucking it down but I’m battling up the Kirkstone Pass in glorious sunshine ☀ View attachment 564713

It's a bit more like this today:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNmng0pghG4

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Looks like we are in for more rain today.

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Get out on yer bike ya softie...

 

[oldwheels]

First job of the day done, These days I'm master of the medication, Wednesday's I load my Good ladies pill box for for the following week, note if any want ordering and get them ordered, I also load my own pill box if needed.

My late wife was on at least 12 different pills per day and keeping track of that and reordering was quite a task. Fortunately I was used to stock control and got a system going. Sometimes supply problems cropped up so had to build that into the system as well.

 

[welsh dragon]

Get out on yer bike ya softie...

Shut up you

 

[Juan Kog]

Ooo.....I see Canyon are suspending shipping bikes to the UK now too!

First of many to come I expect, not good.

well every cloud, maybe an excuse to buy that Mercian frame I wanted 30 years ago , but couldn’t afford.

 

[GM]

Morning all...Thanks for the reminding me, just ordered my prescription for collecting next week

Hopefully a buyer will be coming today to collect a piece of Shabby Chic furniture that my boy had restored. He does things like that in his spare time. Can recommend FB's Marketplace for selling things!

Enjoy your day folks!