The Retirement Thread

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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
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Its been six years since a man with a van dropped this at my door.




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I've now had my Genesis Flyer for six years.





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PaulSB

PaulSB

Squire
Location
Chorley, Lancashire
To business. Good morning. Looks like a decent day ahead. The threatened frost and mist did not appear. Currently 3⁰ and light cloud.

Just loaded up with porridge as I'm heading out at 9.00 for a bicycle ride. Just to be novel.

Not much else on. We are meeting friends online tonight. We are going to attempt to teach ourselves Bridge via Zoom. Could be entertaining!

:hello::hello::pump::bicycle:
 
oldwheels

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Another sunny day but minus 4.6C outside when I got up. Temp rising sharply now the sun is brighter and shining on the sensor.
Sun shines in my front windows and heats the room up very quickly so no need to put the stove on yet. In any case I hope to be out in the morning at least.
The linkspan at Craignure is being refurbished over the weekend so no vehicle ferries after 1710 today until hopefully Monday morning. We still have the Lochaline link and in dire emergency Kilchoan so not totally cut off. Any medical emergencies have to go to Ft William instead of Oban.
 
Juan Kog

Juan Kog

permanently grumpy
I was starting the day off with a nice relaxing coffee and then I had a phone call from HMRC , a recorded message telling me they were on to the tax fraud I was carrying out . I am taking this call extremely seriously. :laugh:
PaulSB said:
Ah Mo beat me to it. I've tried my buddy's and they work very well. I prefer a clear lens and use these from Screwfix

Screwfix gla

I've had many pairs of cycling specific glasses and lost or broken them all.
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I have been using Bolle industrial safety sunglasses for years, ever since I realised how much it would cost to replace my Rayban aviators
 
Tenkaykev

Tenkaykev

Guru
Location
Poole
A bright but chilly day. I decided to put my winter coat away last week, so you can all blame me for the return of the cold spell.
I'm off for a walk, I'll venture past B+Q on my way back as I want to replace some of the slats on our garden bench.
One of the rings on our gas hob stopped working a couple of days ago. I took the brass jet out and tried a darning needle to unblock it but it was solid and I had to resort to using a tiny drill in my Dremel. That did the job but the jet is a bit fiercer than it was, so I've decided to replace all of the jets. That's my task for later in the day. If you hear what sounds like rolling thunder heading up from the South It might be my cooker ^_^

Anecdote time. A colleague could smell gas in his kitchen. Checked everything was off, opened the windows and called the Gas Board. Engineer turns up and has a poke around with his kit. Yes, there's a leak somewhere, not a big leak but definitely a leak. His kitchen had floor covering over a concrete floor. They took the covering up and tried various things to try and identify the source of the leak. They narrowed it down to a small area, then the Gas Fitter took out his lighter and moved it over the floor until a tiny flame appeared.
 
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Tenkaykev said:
A bright but chilly day. I decided to put my winter coat away last week, so you can all blame me for the return of the cold spell.
I'm off for a walk, I'll venture past B+Q on my way back as I want to replace some of the slats on our garden bench.
One of the rings on our gas hob stopped working a couple of days ago. I took the brass jet out and tried a darning needle to unblock it but it was solid and I had to resort to using a tiny drill in my Dremel. That did the job but the jet is a bit fiercer than it was, so I've decided to replace all of the jets. That's my task for later in the day. If you hear what sounds like rolling thunder heading up from the South It might be my cooker ^_^

Anecdote time. A colleague could smell gas in his kitchen. Checked everything was off, opened the windows and called the Gas Board. Engineer turns up and has a poke around with his kit. Yes, there's a leak somewhere, not a big leak but definitely a leak. His kitchen had floor covering over a concrete floor. They took the covering up and tried various things to try and identify the source of the leak. They narrowed it down to a small area, then the Gas Fitter took out his lighter and moved it over the floor until a tiny flame appeared.
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With our first house, a mate always reckoned there was a slight gas smell in the back room, we couldn't smell anything. When I decorated the back room for the first time I was tidying up the ceiling before painting it, I hit a lump close to the wall, a lump of newspaper fell out exposing a pipe and a strong smell of gas started wafting round, I called the emergancy gas and they made it safe. What someone had done was take out a gas appliance, cut the supply pipe just inside the ceiling, crimped the end shut, wrapped it in newspaper and then plastered over it. :eek: :wacko:
 
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