The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I finally got my Northern rail voucher today. I was planning to use it for my trip to York tomorrow for my Humber Bridge forum ride but Northern have been logical, but sneaky...

I got the voucher to compensate me for the cancellation of the train back from my previous forum ride. Northern have made it a voucher for any single journey. It makes sense from their point of view - I had used the outward part of my original return ticket. From my point of view though, it doesn't make sense to use it as half of a return trip... The single price to York is £16.10 with my railcard but the return is £16.30. I would only save 20p.

I have come up with a much better idea... I will use the voucher for a trip out with my bike to Dent on the lovely Settle-Carlisle line and then ride 104 km home. I'll leave it until next year and do it on a long, sunny spring/summer day.


Blimey - that's how much I live on! (Until early next year, when it will go up by 50% after I get my state pension. )

Check how long the voucher is valid for. It used to be six months or twelve months. Small print on the back will say which.

Colour coded was the easy way of seeing the difference.

 

[welsh dragon]

On where

ItV

 

[classic33]

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.

Birmingham was a country!!
Who's been telling porkies.

 

[rustybolts]

I agree with some of what you say BUT.....
Pringle copy.....big thumbs down from us. I bought a tube of plain last week....we tried one each and they went straight in the bin.

yeah , the plain in the red cylinder are dreadful , no flavour

 

[welsh dragon]

You lot are not making me want to pay a visit to Aldi you know

 

[PaulSB]

You lot are not making me want to pay a visit to Aldi you know

I like Aldi.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

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 😀)

If you worked in a car factory you definitely didn't have a sheltered life. 😁

 

[classic33]

You lot are not making me want to pay a visit to Aldi you know

You know you'll just have to visit, if only to satisfy your curiosity.

 

[ColinJ]

Check how long the voucher is valid for. It used to be six months or twelve months. Small print on the back will say which.

Colour coded was the easy way of seeing the difference.

I didn't spot anything in the small print. It requires you to write a date and journey on the voucher to validate it. If the guard asks to see it and you haven't done that then the voucher is invalid and you have to buy a ticket. (Obvious why - otherwise you could just carry it on every journey until challenged and then just fill it in while being watched.)

I'll have another look tomorrow when I get back from York.

I'm just watching today's ToB stage and then will do my best to go to bed. Whether I sleep is another matter!

 

[classic33]

I didn't spot anything in the small print. It requires you to write a date and journey on the voucher to validate it. If the guard asks to see it and you haven't done that then the voucher is invalid and you have to buy a ticket. (Obvious why - otherwise you could just carry it on every journey until challenged and then just fill it in while being watched.)

I'll have another look tomorrow when I get back from York.

I'm just watching today's ToB stage and then will do my best to go to bed. Whether I sleep is another matter!

Mine were authorised by Neil Armstrong, working for Arriva Trains Northern. Guard was uncertain as regards the validity of the vouchers, first time he'd seen one.


Got turned off at, New Pudsey, for "being drunk" on my way home from A&E at the LGI.

 

[ColinJ]

Mine were authorised by Neil Armstrong, working for Arriva Trains Northern.
Got turned off at, New Pudsey, for being drunk on my way home from A&E at the LGI.

Actually drunk, or under the influence of medication?

I saw one young drunk unconscious and vomiting on a train but he didn't get booted off. (I kept an eye on him in case he started to choke on his puke. He eventually woke up, and looked completely unaware of what a disgusting state he was in...)

 

[classic33]

Actually drunk, or under the influence of medication?

I saw one young drunk unconscious and vomiting on a train but he didn't get booted off. (I kept an eye on him in case he started to choke on his puke. He eventually woke up, and looked completely unaware of what a disgusting state he was in...)

The after effects of a fit/seizure/episode/call it what you want, slow, unsteady, slurred speach? and cuts to the head and arms.

 

[ColinJ]

The after effects of a fit/seizure/episode/call it what you want, slow, unsteady, slurred speach? and cuts to the head and arms.

I wear a dog tag on a chain round my neck which explains that I am on anticoagulants, in case I am found injured and unable to speak. Couldn't you get something like that to explain your condition? You'd have to pull it out to show to the guard (whoever) which you might not be able to do, but it could help?

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[classic33]

Night Johnboy.

Night GranMa