The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

The football lovers amongst us will know Chorley have drawn Wolves at home.

While the rest of us wonder what that means...!

 

[Dave7]

I got a nice text from TV licence people telling me that, due to Covid, I am to receive a full years repayment. All I have to do is click on the link.
Now errh uhmm should I, shouldn't I ??

 

[ColinJ]

For the rest of us wanting to draw wolves at home...

 

[Dave7]

The football lovers amongst us will know Chorley have drawn Wolves at home.

Pity there will be no crowd.
Can't see they will have any chance but I will be rooting for them.

 

[ColinJ]

I got a nice text from TV licence people telling me that, due to Covid, I am to receive a full years repayment. All I have to do is click on the link.
Now errh uhmm should I, shouldn't I ??

NO!

 

[Dirk]

Genuine one should start with 07979 100***.

Wouldn't have followed any link that was in it, genuine or not. But then I don't really trust EE.

I copied the link into my burner phone.
Not bothered if that gets compromised.

 

[PaulSB]

Pity there will be no crowd.
Can't see they will have any chance but I will be rooting for them.

I was at the home game and second replay in '85. The replay was moved to Burden Park because ticket demand was so high. Chorley won 3-0.

 

[oldwheels]

It would make sense to try a northern loop first, but what I really fancy having a go at one day is doing a full loop. I think I might have posted some ideas when I was organising a ride on Mull a few years back. I'll go check...

Ah, I was proposing missing out Tobermory...

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Makes sense.Missing Tobermory you miss out a significant hill or two and the single track to Salen. You have 4 hills. Dervaig to Fanmore you will walk the first bit or if going towards Dervaig make sure you have good brakes then a short one at Ulva Ferry flattish round Loch na Keal to opposite Inch Kenneth with a pull up to the top of Ardmeanach and lastly Glen More which is not too bad. I seem to have mixed up the direction of travel here and there but I think you can make sense of it.The west side is more lumpy than the east.

 

[Notafettler]

I got a nice text from TV licence people telling me that, due to Covid, I am to receive a full years repayment. All I have to do is click on the link.
Now errh uhmm should I, shouldn't I ??

I got one this morning saying I had set up a payment to a mister Khan in my TSB account. Click here NO.
I do have TSB account as well as 2 others. But banks don't send you text naming the person your sending it to. EE Also said they thought it was a spam text. Didn't follow it up.

 

[12boy]

Surely it has no flavour left by now? I like to have whole nutmegs and grind a bit myself.

In my misspent youth I read where nutmeg is a hallucinogenic so I ate a tin full. This was not a good idea. Large amounts are toxic and the psychedelic part wasno fun either. To this day I will not eat anymore.

Suppose "aged pooch" isn't in a talking mood, what then!
She has many ways of communicating her feelings without making a sound, and quite a few with audible effects. One of those is to throw her head back, make an "O" with her mouth and howl softly and piteously. If we leave her with other people and go out the howl begins immediately.
I'd hope for a ride when the wind died down but it's still in the mid twenties so some other activity will have to do.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Just watched the concluding episodes of Traces - it didn’t disappoint

 

[Mo1959]

Just watched the concluding episodes of Traces - it didn’t disappoint

Just watched the 4th episode live just now. So tempted to just watch the last two, but I will resist. Something to look forward to next Monday and Tuesday.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. again. Around minus 2 at the moment but the roads are dry so hopefully be ok for a little jog/plod/shuffle

Thought we were going to get snow later but it's saying high ground now so probably just rain/sleet here.

 

[Dave7]

Morning all.
Just reading that, in my town, police broke up an illegal kids birthday party. One person had travelled 80ish miles from the Midlands to attend.
Just how thick are these people ?

 

[Mo1959]

Morning all.
Just reading that, in my town, police broke up an illegal kids birthday party. One person had travelled 80ish miles from the Midlands to attend.
Just how thick are these people ?

I know. It's sickening to hear people still being so stupid. This is why I hope they don't tighten up exercise restrictions, because it's so obvious to anyone with half a brain that it's this sort of thing that's to blame and not someone out for a walk, run or cycle.