The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Grey cool and windy here,but less about me.trying to get up energy and motivation to go and pick up my prescription.I suppose I will have to go.

Same here, plus damp!

I have a local ride organised with a pal because my Humber Bridge ride planned for today has been put back a week. I'm not really looking forward to going out in these conditions but I will probably enjoy it once I have made the effort and got warmed up. We will have post-ride coffee and cake here, so that is something to look forward to.

 

[Dave7]

Was the onion a red onion*, and was the onion in the cup that came with the saucer?

Onions represent emotion's, signified by their many layers. You are being torn apart by someone or something.
The cup and saucer represents reconciliation, maybe after the event. It may be the person, if it was another person tearing you apart.
A matching cup and saucer is saying that having been torn apart, you will once again be back in harmony with that person, if they were a matching pair.

Being on "special offer" might mean you're afraid you'll miss your chance(To find out who or what is toying with your emotion's).

*Beware a red onion! Blood will be spilt in this conflict/Physical harm will be done.

One possible scenario.
You are at conflict, with yourself, over your early morning mad Aldi dash.
The onion represents the conflict within yourself over these visits. The cup and saucer represents the reconciliation with yourself over these, you convince yourself they're needed.
The special offer means you are aware you have limited time, and that you may not always be doing these mad dashes.
*The red onion could represent what you had planned to buy, but dropped and broke. In your attempts to sort it out/hide the evidence, blood was drawn.

Be careful in Aldi.

Sadly it was (vividly) a white/brown onion.

 

[classic33]

Sadly it was (vividly) a white/brown onion.

Why sadly, no blood will be spilt.
Or were you wanting that?

 

[Paulus]

Good day everyone.
Off to the Potters Bar beer festival this afternoon. Fortunately it's in marquees at the football ground, as the rain is heading our way.

 

[Dave7]

Why sadly, no blood will be spilt.
Or were you wanting that?

Sadly cos you only mentioned red onions (unless I missed something)

 

[Dave7]

Good day everyone.
Off to the Potters Bar beer festival this afternoon. Fortunately it's in marquees at the football ground, as the rain is heading our way.

I do enjoy a good beer festival

 

[classic33]

Sadly cos you only mentioned red onions (unless I missed something)

The red onion bit was an extra, signifying blood.

 

[12boy]

One of my dreams which I clearly recollect as if it actually occurred involved having a nice lunch with George W Bush. Although I am not, nor have ever been a Reublican, I found him to be gentle, kind and pleasant and great company for the luncheon. Upon waking it made me wonder how many people I have formed an opinion while knowing very little about them.
The last 2 nights have featured short but violent storms with lots of lightning, thunder and maybe an jnch of rain in an hour. No watering for a few days, at least.
Mrs 12 may feel up to the Saturday farmers market and if so I will need to go too, to carry the memsahib's purchases. I will endeavor to persevere.
Be well and safe.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We've been out this morning, and we've been further than we've been since my Good Lady was totally confined to a wheelchair. We hopped on a bus over to Nuneaton for a wander round their Saturday market and a spot of lunch, its a trip that takes half an hour in the car, but on the bus it takes fifty minutes, we got of the bus and it p***** down whilst we walked home, the suns out now.

 

[postman]

Popped in for a latte to my favourite cafe,stayed an hour nattering glad I made the effort to go out.

 

[classic33]

Popped in for a latte to my favourite cafe,stayed an hour nattering glad I made the effort to go out.

You went out to go in!

 

[classic33]

One of my dreams which I clearly recollect as if it actually occurred involved having a nice lunch with George W Bush. Although I am not, nor have ever been a Reublican, I found him to be gentle, kind and pleasant and great company for the luncheon. Upon waking it made me wonder how many people I have formed an opinion while knowing very little about them.
The last 2 nights have featured short but violent storms with lots of lightning, thunder and maybe an jnch of rain in an hour. No watering for a few days, at least.
Mrs 12 may feel up to the Saturday farmers market and if so I will need to go too, to carry the memsahib's purchases. I will endeavor to persevere.
Be well and safe.

Now, this thunderstorm, with rain. Did it happen after your lunch with George W Bush, sorta raining on your parade, or for real?

 

[ColinJ]

I have a local ride organised with a pal because my Humber Bridge ride planned for today has been put back a week. I'm not really looking forward to going out in these conditions but I will probably enjoy it once I have made the effort and got warmed up. We will have post-ride coffee and cake here, so that is something to look forward to.

I got to the meeting place 5 minutes early (for a change). After 15 minutes there was still no sign of my pal and I was getting cold standing around so I set off up the rest of the hill to meet her coming down. I had only gone round the first bend when I spotted her coming towards me. She looked very flustered...

She had set off earlier on her mountain bike with her dog trotting happily alongside, on her way to deliver him to her son for the day. Suddenly there was a loud BANG!!! as the front tube/tyre exploded! Having extracted the dog from the top of a tree, she half-pushed/half-dragged the dead bike to her son's house, chucked the bike into the back garden, and the trembling hound into the house, then she had to jog several miles home up a steep hill! She got her road bike and then had another couple of big hills to do before she got to me.

By the time we met she had already gone off the idea of doing a big ride, which suited me because I wasn't really enjoying the cool, windy, overcast conditions either. We decided to settle for doing "England's longest continuous gradient" then descending to Littleborough and looping back round to Todmorden.

(That's an old photo. I noticed today that the new sign has the data in metric units too - yay!)

PS There has clearly been seismic activity in the area, because the summit seems to have accumulated another 2 ft of elevation!

I'll tell you how un-July like it was out there... There was no ice cream van at Blackstone Edge! There is nearly always one there at weekends and evenings from early spring to late autumn.

We called in at Aldi in Tod where I bought us a pack of caramel slices. We had those with coffee at my house, then I provided an escort the first half of the way to Hebden Bridge, before turning back to Tod.

Despite the dreary weather, it was nice to get out - 52 km with 850 m of ascent (33 miles, 2,800 ft).

 

[theloafer]

as of last Monday 26th July i was officially an O.A.P....plans are to cycle more ..

 

[mikeIow]

I got to the meeting place 5 minutes early (for a change). After 15 minutes there was still no sign of my pal and I was getting cold standing around so I set off up the rest of the hill to meet her coming down. I had only gone round the first bend when I spotted her coming towards me. She looked very flustered...

She had set off earlier on her mountain bike with her dog trotting happily alongside, on her way to deliver him to her son for the day. Suddenly there was a loud BANG!!! as the front tube/tyre exploded! Having extracted the dog from the top of a tree, she half-pushed/half-dragged the dead bike to her son's house, chucked the bike into the back garden, and the trembling hound into the house, then she had to jog several miles home up a steep hill! She got her road bike and then had another couple of big hills to do before she got to me.

By the time we met she had already gone off the idea of doing a big ride, which suited me because I wasn't really enjoying the cool, windy, overcast conditions either. We decided to settle for doing "England's longest continuous gradient" then descending to Littleborough and looping back round to Todmorden.

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(That's an old photo. I noticed today that the new sign has the data in metric units too - yay!)

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PS There has clearly been seismic activity in the area, because the summit seems to have accumulated another 2 ft of elevation!

I'll tell you how un-July like it was out there... There was no ice cream van at Blackstone Edge! There is nearly always one there at weekends and evenings from early spring to late autumn.

We called in at Aldi in Tod where I bought us a pack of caramel slices. We had those with coffee at my house, then I provided an escort the first half of the way to Hebden Bridge, before turning back to Tod.

Despite the dreary weather, it was nice to get out - 52 km with 850 m of ascent (33 miles, 2,800 ft).

Ahh yes, spotted during my LEJoG:

shortly before cycling (okay….pushing) up The Buttress

What a ludicrously steep spot that was….& on a National Cycle Route too!