The Retirement Thread

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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Colly has just posted some lovely photos of yesterday's Forest of Bowland forum ride HERE.

A great place to be on a bike on a sunny day, but somewhere to avoid at all costs in thundery weather! This a storm map from one FoB ride which I postponed a few years ago for that very reason...

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Shocking! :eek:
 
numbnuts

numbnuts

Squire
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Gone over the hill and far away
Isn't facebook wonderful, I'm on my village page and just now the surgery was letting you know that they have two dates for the flu jab 25 September or 2nd October, I booked the first one, without that I would not have known.:smile:
 
Tenkaykev

Tenkaykev

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numbnuts said:
I only live 3.91 miles from Eastleigh Airport and we hardly get any planes either.......
maybe it's the smog at 24,000 feet that keeps them away :laugh:
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Coincidentally I was reading about aircraft noise and various methods used to mitigate nuisance to people under the flight path. Modern jet / turbojet engines have evolved to the point where the airframe / flaps / landing gear are often the major source of noise on final approach. It would be more effective to come in at a higher altitude and dive steeply than the current long and gradual glide path, but not very pleasant for the passengers.
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
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Watchet
Tenkaykev said:
Coincidentally I was reading about aircraft noise and various methods used to mitigate nuisance to people under the flight path. Modern jet / turbojet engines have evolved to the point where the airframe / flaps / landing gear are often the major source of noise on final approach. It would be more effective to come in at a higher altitude and dive steeply than the current long and gradual glide path, but not very pleasant for the passengers.
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We got buzzed by a low flying C130 as we were walking past the back end of Chivenor base this morning. Couldn't hear it until it was a couple of hundred yards away. Impressively quiet for a plane of that size. I can see why special forces use them.
 
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:hello: Good morning folks, Carers early this morning, six o clock, my Good Lady has now gone back to sleep on the settee, I must remember to put my dressing gown on when I go down and unlock the door, I usually unlock about six, I'd just got back upstairs when they arrived. :eek: Yoga this morning, and I've got to pack up my tablet ready to go back to Amazon.
 
Dave7

Dave7

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Cheshire
dave r said:
:hello: Good morning folks, Carers early this morning, six o clock, my Good Lady has now gone back to sleep on the settee, I must remember to put my dressing gown on when I go down and unlock the door, I usually unlock about six, I'd just got back upstairs when they arrived. :eek: Yoga this morning, and I've got to pack up my tablet ready to go back to Amazon.
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Especially as you had no PJs on :eek:
 
Tenkaykev

Tenkaykev

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Got up at 04:00 as sleep wouldn’t come. Went downstairs for a read. I’m currently reading a Sci-Fi book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, it’s very good with lots of intertwining themes linked together. Our Library recently switched to “ BorrowBox “ for Ebooks, there’s a lot more choice and multiple copies of the more popular titles. I usually browse the titles, and if I see something that interests me I look it up on Amazon to read the reviews before borrowing. This particular title was only published in May of this year, the Kindle price was £9.99. I wouldn’t pay that for a Kindle book, I usually wait for books to go on discount. My new E-reader has already saved me a fair bit. I’m very impressed with it from an ease of reading and feature point of view.
 
PaulSB

PaulSB

Squire
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Chorley, Lancashire
Good day. I too have been a round for a while but doing other stuff. Woke at 4.45am but at least today I'm not stiff and sore from a ride. It is a beautiful cool, sunny morning. Today I have ironing, a U3A meeting, ALDI run and allotment things to do. I have tomatoes ripening by the ton so may have to consider making a lot of soup!

At some point I need to get the Kinesis out for a test ride. I changed the seat post at the weekend and need to check the saddle position while riding. My Cervelo needs some serious TLC.

Busy day ahead. :hello:
 
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