The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

My Garmin screen protector came this morning....and I did it first go with no bubbles

 

[classic33]

Very quick Good Morning. Looks like we are in for a beautiful day. We have four walking days this week. Today we will be in Silsden, near Keighley, walking to a Stanza Stone - the ones dotted along a trail from Marsden to Ilkley. The organizer has asked us to meet at a specific layby. 🤔

We're away in Derbyshire walking Wednesday to Friday. No cycling for Paul till the weekend.

Stay safe. Behave

Would that be along the Roman Manchester to Ilkley highway?

 

[classic33]

Colin's OK......he wouldn't hurt a fly.
He's obviously woke up. I thought I just saw a mouse scurrying across the living room floor, but it was Colin having his morning exercise.

Not much use then.

 

[Mo1959]

I decided to haul my exercise bike out of the garage and bring it back into the house in the hope I might use it over the winter. Only problem is it's been in a cold and damp garage for around 6 years. Apart from a few rust spots on some of the screws, it concerns me the electric motor might have damp/damage after all this time. Any tips? Leave it sitting for at least a week next to the dehumidifier and hope it might dry out enough to be safe to start up again?

I went a short bimble at last. Just 17 miles but it will do.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Back from Sainsbury’s, empty shelves in every aisle. Got most of what I needed but a bit hit and miss. From the sound of things the delivery shortages are going to continue for many more months

 

[Mo1959]

Back from Sainsbury’s, empty shelves in every aisle. Got most of what I needed but a bit hit and miss. From the sound of things the delivery shortages are going to continue for many more months

The world is in some state. Article on the news saying they think GPs are going to carry on hardly seeing any patients face to face and do more telephone appointments. How on earth can you tell what someone is like over the phone. I thought skin pallor and general demeanour were important in diagnosing things. It's getting beyond a joke

 

[Dirk]

Raised beds and tater containers all emptied, 4 bags of manure dug in and all mixed up.
Containers and beds refilled.
Anti cat toilet defences erected.
I'll leave it all for a couple of weeks now before I start planting for next year.
I've doing garlic - Elephant and Solent Wight - onions, beans, carrots and Pink Fir Apple taters.
That should keep up going for a while.
I'm knackered now and sweating like an oil magnate at an ER demo.
Cheese and onion (home grown of course!) sandwich and cold beer for lunch

 

[welsh dragon]

The sun is trying to force it's way through the clouds at the moment

 

[Dave7]

The world is in some state. Article on the news saying they think GPs are going to carry on hardly seeing any patients face to face and do more telephone appointments. How on earth can you tell what someone is like over the phone. I thought skin pallor and general demeanour were important in diagnosing things. It's getting beyond a joke

And still pulling 100 grand a year. Barstewards

 

[numbnuts]

The world is in some state. Article on the news saying they think GPs are going to carry on hardly seeing any patients face to face and do more telephone appointments. How on earth can you tell what someone is like over the phone. I thought skin pallor and general demeanour were important in diagnosing things. It's getting beyond a joke

It's funny that all the doctors will be doing the flu jab face to face, yet can't do an appointments, money talks or in this case gets them out of their homes and into the surgery
I've just been for a 20 mile ride

 

[Drago]

Im back. Quick Clooney's then go an collect Mini d from school.

 

[Drago]

It's funny that all the doctors will be doing the flu jab face to face, yet can't do an appointments, money talks or in this case gets them out of their homes and into the surgery
I've just been for a 20 mile ride

Thats not quite it though Numbnuts. Theyre having to triage to reduce the number of people physically in the surgery, and therefore reduce the expose for vulnerable patients - like Mrs D who has an MS, an autoimmune disease- to less risk. Theres no other way of doing it, otherwise doctors surgeries will become hotspots and no one will get any healthcare at all, and the system will collapse.

Jabs are a little different. You can't do an injection over the phone, and the system is set up to get them in and out quick and minimise exposere, where possible separated from clinical patients. While you can do that with a 15 second job like a jab you can't do that with a 15 minute consultation or treatment.

Trust me, given the choice most GP's would like things back how they were, but ita simply never going to happen for the foreseeable.

Living with an asthmatic daughter and a wife with MS I am extremely keen not to bring covid home, so if the Doctor can assist me over the phone then thats blummen well fine by me. When I fell badly ill earlier this year the GP quickly identified that and physically had me in, and rightly so, but I am damn happy I didn't have to go unnecessarily, and didn't have to sit in a small, airless waiting room with dozens of other people who are there unnecessarily.

I see a lot of people complaining, and fair play to them, but no one coming up with a sensible alternative.

 

[Dave7]

Burgers have been 'made' and are resting in the fridge.
Cabbage, carrots and potatoes are in the steamer......all ready for the big switch on
Just have to make the gravy.

 

[12boy]

Its barely 0730hrs and someone has gone out if their way to be a jerk towards me, and I have responded with a resounding "go and f*** yourself."

Now, he well and truly had it coming, but what right do arrissholes have to upset peole, ruin their day, and generally unsettle them?

One of the nice things about being retired is answering to no one, and finding my own inner peace and it narks me off severely when other people intrude upon my equilibrium.

I once saw a car sticker which said " Every day causes me to add to the long list of people to whom I can cheerfully say...Kiss my ass".
I am little surprised these days by the stupid and bizarre things people say, think and do. Magical thinking is abundant.
Another day of a little riding, maybe setting up some winter spots for the thyme Mrs 12 has used in the many pots she has planted, poking around in the garage and other getting ready for snow and cold. It is entirely possible to have snow in September here and I don't want to be hustling around getting set up with only a few days notice. I think there hasn't been snow in July and August in the 30 years I have lived here, but I think it has happened. Usually it is a couple of cold days and then a month or so of truly gorgeous weather.
Be well and safe and keep them warm spoons handy...some lovely lady may need your help.

 

[ColinJ]

Yay!
Colin's back.
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Woke up this morning and he was hanging above the bed.
Think he's been on his holibobs.

Is he named after me, or some other Colin?

That's upset me. Made me shiver. Little ones OK. Big buggers I don't quite run but........

I am not normally particularly bothered by most spiders, but something like this (below) would really freak me out!

A friend was once lying in bed with her beloved when she was awoken in the middle of the night by a strange tap-tap-tapping noise. She lay there wondering what it was and eventually her b/f heard the noise and woke up too. He whispered "WTF is that?" and turned on a bedside lamp. The couple scanned the room and in the far corner saw a ...


... spider the size of a hen's egg walking across a newspaper on the floor!

The problem with being 6'4" and trying to look 'hard' is when you cuddle a lovely fluffy puppy which makes you look kind of soft and pleasant

That's what I thought too!