The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Covid booster now booked.
As kindly suggested above we chose our station (based on parking and wheelchair access) and the 1st slot was Nov 10th.

Now being a complete hypocrite** .....this happens to be the same day we have booked for a lunch and caberet.....so a few beers might me partaken of .
**apparently the advice re Covid jabs and alcohol are due to be scrapped

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Carer arived about half eight, and apologized for being late, her alarm clock hadn't gone off. I've done the supermarket run, next I'm down the market, I may pop into the takeaway, Sarnies, for sandwiches on the way home.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning, again.
The sun is shining and another load of washing is on the line.
Now gearing up for the afternoon session of the committee.

 

[ColinJ]

Carer arived about half eight, and apologized for being late, her alarm clock hadn't gone off.

Even though my phone alarm has been 100% reliable, all things fail eventually so I always set a backup alarm on my tablet for anything urgent, such as appointments or when travelling.

When the phone alarm goes off I snooze it rather than cancel it. It goes off again after 20 minutes and at that time I cancel it if I am up or snooze it again if I am still in bed, and so on.

 

[Chief Broom]

Had a very enjoyable ride today 10mph headwind outward which is ok because i can feel like a hero with a tailwind coming home! A cyclist passed me who i later caught up with as he had a puncture, i asked if he wanted any help as i had a spare tube but he said his wife is picking him up and he couldnt be bothered to fix it. His bike was an ebike, i wouldnt have known at first glance [being a newbie] and he said being 75yrs he needed some assistance on the hills, Good luck to him!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Central Heating now fully operational
Supplies safely received from the farm shop, the Wine Society and Parsley Box.
Call received from my Mum in Minehead to say how delighted she is with the birthday flowers I ordered for her unseen.
Kinesis cleaned, bird feeders cleaned.
All in all a most satisfactory day, I may celebrate with a G&T or two this evening

 

[numbnuts]

Not done much today, picked up some milk from the local Co-op and made some more mince pies, the pastry was all ready made in the freezer so just had to defrost it roll it out and cut the shapes.
Someone picked up the black garbage bag, but it was not the council, they are still in dispute until we get wheelie bins, but to be honest I don't want them stuck out side the entrance of the flat and for the two blocks of flats we will lose two parking places on the road so they can get said bins out to the road, but saying that it has one advantage to me, for they would have a lowered pavement so I could use that to take my trike straight to the front door and unload my shopping.

 

[ColinJ]

I ran the central heating for a couple of hours to check that it still works (it DOES). Then I turned it off, and reverted to just using my convector heater on low (3/4 kW with a thermostat keeping room at around 18-19 C). Hopefully, I can make do with that for at least another 4-6 weeks to keep my energy bills down.

I nipped out and did my lumpy 6 km Metro loop on my singlespeed bike this afternoon. I would have done a bit more but a pal missed his bus home and called in to kill some time while he waited for the next one. I hadn't eaten anything and would probably never have got out if I'd had a meal after he had left. I made do with a mid-afternoon bowl of muesli when I got back.

 

[welsh dragon]

My son came over this afternoon. He and my youngest twin grandsons received their letters on the same day to confirm they will be getting a booster jab on 5th November in Newtown.

 

[pawl]

Cut the lawns Hopefully not many more cuts this season.Finished clearing a border that contained plants Dug in a load of garden compost ready for next year as a small vegetable plot
Ordered a new blade for my lawnmower I know all very mundane

 

[ColinJ]

I'm trying to come up with a short story for the £1,000 competition that I mentioned a few days ago. One of the conditions is that the story must be previously unpublished and I have already posted many of my stories here or elsewhere. It would be really upsetting to be awarded the prize only to then have it taken away after somebody pointed out that it was NOT a previously unpublished story.

Hmm, there's an idea... a story about somebody trying to win a story-writing competition!

 

[classic33]

I'm trying to come up with a short story for the £1,000 competition that I mentioned a few days ago. One of the conditions is that the story must be previously unpublished and I have already posted many of my stories here or elsewhere. It would be really upsetting to be awarded the prize only to then have it taken away after somebody pointed out that it was NOT a previously unpublished story.

Hmm, there's an idea... a story about somebody trying to win a story-writing competition!

You ever posted the whole story?

 

[ColinJ]

You ever posted the whole story?

I'm not taking any chances... Only 1 entry is allowed, so if I write something, it WILL be something new!

I have won about £6,000 worth of prizes in similar competitions before but most of those were only 50-250 words.

Ooh, I just spotted another restriction... The story must be unpublished AFTER entry too. They want to be able to publish it themselves as unpublished. That means I can't show you lot what I've written!

 

[classic33]

I'm not taking any chances... Only 1 entry is allowed, so if I write something, it WILL be something new!

I have won about £6,000 worth of prizes in similar competitions before but most of those were only 50-250 words.

Ooh, I just spotted another restriction... The story must be unpublished AFTER entry too. They want to be able to publish it themselves as unpublished. That means I can't show you lot what I've written!

They want copyright as well!

 

[ColinJ]

They want copyright as well!

I won't be writing a masterwork so they are welcome to it!

The reason that these competitions are a good target is because 99% of the population can't be bothered to make the effort, and 90% of the other 1% don't write anything worth reading. That means the chances of winning are MUCH higher than stupid multiple choice comps: What is the capital city of France: (1) Leicester, (2) New York, (3) Sydney, (4) Paris?