The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

If you use a Chromecast Dongle, the TV needs to have a free HDMI socket. Your old set probably won't have one?

My TV used to have a Eurosport app but they stopped supporting it so now I cast to the Chromecast dongle instead. The picture quality is better than it used to be on the app, but it isn't quite so convenient to skip through the coverage because I can't use the TV remote control.

Yes as far as I know it just needs an HDMI socket. We’ve used it on the basic tv’s of a couple of holiday cottages, worked fine. So it doesn’t need much special in the way of a tv, just sufficient internet reception.
Using it on holiday was great, meant we could watch GCN bike coverage and anything else available through the internet.

 

[theloafer]

back from optician's first bus ride in 2 years.. they sure have not got any better. still must not grumble only cost 50p and just missed the rain

 

[Dave7]

That's because they are shite

Only after they have been eaten
I like them.
Daughter can't stand them

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Please, please, please. About four bloody hours it's been in my head, my ears. I've googled, I can't remember, I can sing, badly, those four lines......

Title?
Band?

Please

 

[Deleted member 1258]

back from optician's first bus ride in 2 years.. they sure have not got any better. still must not grumble only cost 50p and just missed the rain

We've just started having to use the buses regularly, my Good Lady is in a wheelchair and I can't get her in the car, and they're crap, an hour to do a journey I can do in the car in less then half an hour.

 

[Dave7]

Just back from the village and changed my clean on this morning shirt - bloody sky rat dumped on me! Got to wash my hair as well.
Blimmin' Grockles feeding the gulls!

Any photos available ?? I promise none of us will laugh.

Much

For too long.

 

[Mo1959]

Bit showery now. The temptation is high to have a siesta since I didn’t sleep well but I should really resist as it just becomes a habit. Would rather try and sleep better at night. Think I’ll have a walk and keep myself going.

 

[Dirk]

Supermarket run myself today to my local Sainsbury’s, and was quite alarmed at the lack of stock throughout the store; at a guess I’d say the majority would be down to logistic problems within the UK with a significant amount due to slower imports following on from the ’exciting‘ rollercoaster of the new trading environment we find ourselves in.

Perhaps the government will take note from history and line in the first Elizabethan reign issue licences to privateers and buccaneering types who can sally forth to pillage the global shipping lanes, and allow the press-ganging among the legions of newly unemployed…?

Bit 'political' for a first post in this thread?
Ain't biting.
News & Current Affairs >>>>>>>>>>

 

[Dirk]

Any photos available ?? I promise one of us will laugh.

Much

For too long.

No....bugger off!

 

[185Q]

Bit 'political' for a first post in this thread?
Ain't biting.
News & Current Affairs >>>>>>>>>>

You bit when there was’t any bait on the hook - I’m not out to get caught in any Crosstown Traffic btw!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

We've just started having to use the buses regularly, my Good Lady is in a wheelchair and I can't get her in the car, and they're crap, an hour to do a journey I can do in the car in less then half an hour.

I went on a bus last week, the first time since BC, Before Covid. Was very sparsely occupied and with all the windows open so was ok. Wouldn’t want to use one if busier though. Used to use them all the time BC, the service around here is incredibly good. Trips into town very easy, to the local shopping mall ok, to the Royal Infirmary ok but used to be a lot easier when it was in town. Now the site of flats occuped by amongst others Ian Rankin and Big Ger Morris Cafferty.

 

[classic33]

That's what I thought I'd said!

Had it in your ears, you're certain it's not something in the air?

 

[classic33]

Cheesy beans Forgotten about that That’s lunch tomorrow sorted.Might improvise a bit with the addition of a little Marmite

 

[12boy]

Pawl, best wishes with your wife's surgery.
I will have a busy day today with therapy, a return to the cell phone store to get some stuff sorted out that is beyond my calcified Luddite brain, the grocery stores to get stuff to tempt Mrs 12's chemo-suppressed palate, a dog crawl (her walks are too slow to be walks) and other happy horsepoop that needs to be done. Maybe a little archery. Tomorrow a bike ride hell or high water. Ironically, the air is pretty good today since riding will probably be delayed until it is too hot to be a lot of fun.
Your beans and toast thing reminds me of the Great Scone Cream Before Jam issue. If it is Cheesy Beanos which is first?
BTW, I fall firmly in the pro mushroom camp, and if I ate beans and toast, avec cheese, I might add green chile and shrooms, but not the psychedelic ones.
Be well and safe.

 

[numbnuts]

Hermes - update
Told today by seller - no delivery due to Covid could take 3-4 days longer