The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

This hospital visiting is getting expensive.
MrsD has needed 3 in the last 10 days. 15 quid return taxi fare.
Today she/we went for new bra and prosthesis......after 10 minutes she was told "sorry, nothing we have will fit"......she now has a 40 mile round trip to Manchester to get fitted.

Hi Dave
have a look here
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/help-with-health-costs/healthcare-travel-costs-scheme-htcs/

 

[Chief Broom]

Hi folks Ive bit the bullet and grasped the nettle and waved bye bye to some unhard earned cash, so a brand new Dawes discovery 201 is on its way I shall keep my current ride for shopping duties and when i need to park it up somewhere where it probably wont get nicked. In Brora town the councel have placed old bikes here and there and decorated them with flowers/hanging baskets.....probably return to my old trojan to find it covered in petunias!
Im looking forward to riding my new bike and think im going to like it. Its as simple as can be and in my newbie opinion less is more! OK a few years down the road i may desire disc brakes and carbon fibre....but i doubt it!
Dawes Discovery 201 - Bikes from Tandem Group Cycles UK (tgc.bike)

 

[Exlaser2]

I know that. However farmers in the potential area have not been consulted in any way as to whether they want them dammong parts of their farmland

I come form a country where there are millions of them so I am well aware of what they can do.

I could be wrong but I though farmers got ‘ set aside payments’ so they were not out of pocket , if small areas of their land become wet land .

Anyway I thought you came from the Brum area and I’ve never seen any beavers strolling though the bull ring . Well not that kind anyway 😂😂😂😂😂😂😀

 

[welsh dragon]

I could be wrong but I though farmers got ‘ set aside payments’ so they were not out of pocket , if small areas of their land become wet land .

Anyway I thought you came from the Brum area and I’ve never seen any beavers strolling though the bull ring . Well not that kind anyway 😂😂😂😂😂😂😀

I have no idea about payments to be honest. All I know is that some farmers are decidedly unhappy.

And you would be surprised at how manu beavers are around, even in Brum

 

[Exlaser2]

I have no idea about payments to be honest. All I know is that some farmers are decidedly unhappy.

And you would be surprised at how manu beavers are around, even in Brum

Very true lol.
We went to watch the Tour of Yorkshire a few years ago with my brother in law and his wife .Watched the start of the stage then travelled to Leeds to watch the end . Had a great day and decided to stay in Leeds for a meal and a few drinks .
The demographic of Leeds is young ( what with the uni as well ).
Jesus Christ it was wall to wall beaver , I think it must of been some kind of local law that no woman under 40 ish could have a skirt longer than 4 inches .😂😂😂
It was no good at all for an old man like me that’s had a sheltered life 😂😂😂😂 ( I made up the sheltered life bit as I worked in a car factory for 40 years 😀)

 

[oldwheels]

This screenshot of the BBC Scotland News sums up the mess we are in just now, 1 in 45 with covid but they are still going ahead with a three day 50,000 people music festival and Sturgeon is still prioritising independence
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Given the behaviour of the tourists who do not wear face covering on the ferries or the crowded buses it is not surprising that numbers are rising here.

 

[Dave7]

I have no idea about payments to be honest. All I know is that some farmers are decidedly unhappy.

And you would be surprised at how manu beavers are around, even in Brum

I read a survey that claimed Brum beavers were among the largest and nicest in the country

 

[welsh dragon]

I read a survey that claimed Brum beavers were among the largest and nicest in the country

I cannot comment on that.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Currently watching the ToB riding through Alston and Hexham etc en route to Gateshead, nice to see all those nice softie roads down south

 

[pawl]

The Davinci Code film.
Any thoughts ??
Its being shown on with 4* rating.
I tried to watch it years ago but couldn't get into it.
Should I give it another try ?

Definitely

 

[ColinJ]

Anyway, it is time to buy tomorrow's rail tickets - I don't want the stress of faffing about before 07:00 getting them. I'll pick them up when I go out for today's Metro.

So instead, I got the stress of BROWSER BAD REQUEST popups!

I tried twice but nothing much was happening. I was worried that the money might have been taken anyway and I would end up with 2 or 3 sets of tickets... I checked my bank account online though and no withdrawals had been made, so I ordered the tickets using another site.

For some reason, I need to wait an hour before going to get them. Have they got somebody hand-printing them for me, I wonder?

Time passes... slowly!

I'm back! One broken ticket machine, but the other was working so that printed the tickets for me. No Metro though. Mind you, I don't really have time for the crosswords this evening. Too many things to do for the ride - charging batteries, checking and uploading route files and so on. I have already cleaned my bike, oiled the chain, and topped up my tyre pressures.

I want to leave myself with nothing much to do in the morning other than have my breakfast, apply some sunblock, and get my cycling kit on. I would like to be able to have a lie in until 05:30!

The Davinci Code film.
Any thoughts ??
Its being shown on with 4* rating.
I tried to watch it years ago but couldn't get into it.
Should I give it another try ?

I thought that the Dan Brown books and films based on them were supposed to be universally awful!

IIRC, I read one of the novels in hospital in 2012. I can't remember which one it was. It passed the time, but I wasn't really impressed. The book built up to a shattering climax, but then... there was another chapter. I kept thinking that something even worse was going to be revealed, but it wasn't! It would be a bit like having the original final scene of Psycho 30 minutes before the end of the movie, and then having people sitting around drinking coffee and discussing how unfortunate the whole thing was!

 

[welsh dragon]

Grantchester is on at 9 pm.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Great finish to the ToB down south today, looking forward to seeing them up here tomorrow and Sunday. Weather looking ok.

 

[numbnuts]

Grantchester is on at 9 pm.

On where

 

[Mo1959]

On where

One of these things you don’t have.