The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Gonna be cold here tonight!
Currently 23° in the van.

Damn me! Nine below freezing already? Hightail it for home before hypothermia kicks in!
Stay awake at all costs!

Yes, if that is °F, get the thermals on for the drive home!

If it is °C, turn the heating down - that is ridiculously warm! I was feeling a bit overheated earlier with the room at 19.5° C so I have turned my radiator thermostat down.

 

[Poacher]

No barking dog impersonations tonight?

Spooky! My normal tactic to repel the little grey (gray? they are north american after all) invaders is to open the back door and bark at them.
It worked fairly well until the last few days, when they just sat up and laughed at me. Throwing Mrs Poacher's outdoor shoes at them didn't work, and left me in the doghouse. Catapulting half brazils at them (see, I'm not totally brutal) failed 'cos my catapult elastic had perished.
Today the little furry tailed rats bit through the strong cord holding up three feeders out of their reach on a suspension system with thin wire at each end - I didn't want to use wire throughout in case it injured birds - and enjoyed most of the contents. I've admitted defeat and put the feeders in the outhouse, leaving fairly squirrel proof sunflower heart and niger seed feeders out there for the hard-core feathered visitors.

 

[classic33]

Spooky! My normal tactic to repel the little grey (gray? they are north american after all) invaders is to open the back door and bark at them.
It worked fairly well until the last few days, when they just sat up and laughed at me. Throwing Mrs Poacher's outdoor shoes at them didn't work, and left me in the doghouse. Catapulting half brazils at them (see, I'm not totally brutal) failed 'cos my catapult elastic had perished.
Today the little furry tailed rats bit through the strong cord holding up three feeders out of their reach on a suspension system with thin wire at each end - I didn't want to use wire throughout in case it injured birds - and enjoyed most of the contents. I've admitted defeat and put the feeders in the outhouse, leaving fairly squirrel proof sunflower heart and niger seed feeders out there for the hard-core feathered visitors.

It was you that woke @Dirk this morning.

 

[Poacher]

It was you that woke @Dirk this morning.

Nah! I didn't get up till ten past nine!

 

[12boy]

Cut my ride down to about 4 miles. Very unsatisfactory. The wind had blown snow across the path and it froze to leave a thin and slick layer. Had to go slow especially around corners and the headwind part wound up being the . I made a circuit and decided to quit there. It's gotten well above freezineg this afternoon, so on the icy places is a film of water. Studded snows work best when its so cold it's dry. By tomorrow it should be better.

 

[classic33]

Nah! I didn't get up till ten past nine!

He did say "in the early hours" though.

 

[classic33]

Cut my ride down to about 4 miles. Very unsatisfactory. The wind had blown snow across the path and it froze to leave a thin and slick layer. Had to go slow especially around corners and the headwind part wound up being the . I made a circuit and decided to quit there. It's gotten well above freezineg this afternoon, so on the icy places is a film of water. Studded snows work best when its so cold it's dry. By tomorrow it should be better.

Seldom gets cold enough, when there's snow here, for it to be dry snow. It's one or the other, never both.

 

[screenman]

Seems Boris may have done the deal. On the face of it, it seems to be not a bad deal either. The devil is in the detail as they say. Let's hope Macron doesn't stop it if he doesn't like what his fishermen are going to get out of it and of course our own MP's have to OK it as well so it ain't over yet as they say.

I daresay Starmer won't be happy no matter what the deal is. I bet he was hoping that it would be abysmal so he has something else to complain about.

Yeh! Great all that time, effort and money to have worse deal than we has before.

 

[classic33]

Yeh! Great all that time, effort and money to have worse deal than we has before.

"Than we has before", have you been at the christmas spirits.

 

[ColinJ]

Easily sone - the 's' and the 'd' keys are right next to each other!

 

[rustybolts]

Still imbibing the Christmas Spirit !! ( 4 cans Guinness , few glasses wine and a chaser or two of brandy). have done about 40 mins lifting weights
and some push ups , tomorrow will only be an hour pedaling on the Kurt Kinetic and then more serious dissipation with the magic bottles. Merry Christmas Everybody , the days will be getting longer and our resolve will be getting stronger but for a day or two let your hair down ( pubic if your pate is shiny will suffice ) and bloody well enjoy yourselves ! we have survived another year and the cursed covid has not nailed us yet

 

[rustybolts]

ps Mo you have set the standard to which we all aspire with your 40+ miles per weeks running in adverse conditions , your resolve and discipline. We salute you ! and even though you say Christmas is no big deal to you , look in the mirror , smile and say "well done girl!!"

 

[Mo1959]

Morning and Merry Christmas for all those that enjoy it.............me, I will finish my coffee, go for a run then hide indoors the rest of the day pretending it's just another day

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning, and a Merry Xmas everybody.

 

[screenman]

"Than we has before", have you been at the christmas spirits.

You guessed right.