The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Indeed.
I am sure there is a law against that.
Dirk's fault......he should have made the rules clearer.

I got in, no questions asked.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Spot on . I still have one more birthday with a 5 at the beginning , in early November .

Everyone please remember the date as I want plenty of presents as commiseration 😂😂😂😂

Birthday starting with 5, blimey! Who let the kids in! My next birthday starts with a seven.

 

[ColinJ]

I suppose most of today's generation wouldn't know what a telegram... is.

My mum was the youngest of a big Scottish family. We didn't have a phone when I was young. Every now and then a little telegram van would pull up in front of our house and my mum would start crying before the man had even delivered the message. She knew that it would be a message from Scotland telling her that another one of her loved ones had died...

I suppose most of today's generation wouldn't know what a ... record player is.

They are back in fashion!

I gave away my record deck and record collection when CDs came along.

 

[classic33]

Lots of kids on here.....1st job in the 70s.
I had just one job on piece work but only for 12 months. It was 12 hour nights 7-7. I hated it.

I was cleaning out cowsheds in the mid 70's.

 

[Dave7]

MrsD still has a telegram I sent her in 1966 saying "be at the phone box at 7 tonight".
Neither of our families had phones so it was all done via phone boxes.

 

[PaulSB]

Roger Hunt has died. Very sad, a great hero of mine.

Sir Roger Hunt
Sir Roger Hunt
Ee-i-adio
Sir Roger Hunt
👏👏👏

 

[Exlaser2]

Indeed.
I am sure there is a law against that.
Dirk's fault......he should have made the rules clearer.

To make matters worse, I also haven’t worked since September 2019 . 😂😂
Due to a combination of luck ( 34 year of a defined benefit pension scheme) + planning ( I always paid into a AVC ) and a half decent redundancy package ( more luck ).
I had intended to have six months off then look for a bit of part time work , then this COVID mess started and I became an extra unpaid carer to my mum for a year. And since she has now passed I have found I have really got used to living without the s##t of work . 😂😀😀

 

[numbnuts]

18:30 and it's dark all ready and the street lights are on

 

[numbnuts]

I suppose most of today's generation wouldn't know what a telegram or record player is.

I still have one, Pioneer PL12D

 

[classic33]

I still have one, Pioneer PL12D

Pioneer Cinema, meeting at Portland Lane, 12 minutes before the picture was due to start?

 

[rustybolts]

MrsD still has a telegram I sent her in 1966 saying "be at the phone box at 7 tonight".
Neither of our families had phones so it was all done via phone boxes.

Sounds like James Bond film scene !

 

[Dirk]

I suppose most of today's generation wouldn't know what a telegram or record player is.

.........or a wage packet.
I used to enjoy picking up my brown OHMS envelope filled with cash.

 

[Dave7]

I still have one, Pioneer PL12D

I had one of those for many years..an excellent deck. I recall replacing the stylus and what an amazing difference it made.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Today I had 2 things to do
1) wait in for ebike battery to be collected to go to the recelling people
2) go and give blood at 14:15

SO had to ensure SWMBO was up and about by the time I left - her sleep cycle is totally screwed up by Covid and stuff so she basically keep similar hours to Dracula



And I failed
The parcel went off OK - he arrived just as I was off to bleed
SWMBO was already up and had been fed and watered (or Green teaed to be accurate)
but apparently the blood people want blood WITH iron in it
and apparently mine is pretty close to water???

SO I was rejected - so went to Tesco on the way home and got pudding for Tea and then threw decorum and morals to the wind and filled up with petrol on the way home (no queue!)


I have contacted the doctor with the results and they haven;t come back yet so I assume I have a reasonable chance of making it threw the night

 

[BoldonLad]

Lots of kids on here.....1st job in the 70s.
I had just one job on piece work but only for 12 months. It was 12 hour nights 7-7. I hated it.

Children, children

First "proper" job, 1963 age. 16, £3-9-2d / week (ie £3.46) working in Metallurgy-Lab as trainee, stuck it until I was 20 (1967), then, switched to IT (or Data Processing, as it was called in those days).

Before that, I had delivered Newspapers and then, worked in a Car Wash.