The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, cool and cloudy here.
Had our interconnected smoke and CO detectors fitted a few months ago, cost £several hundred.

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks just booked my tesco delivery in before every slot is taken by the xmas stampeders.. If i had a car i wouldnt be bothered but cant get much on the bike. Dry out so will be off to do my 20m

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Morning all. Can anyone explain why smoke detectors always wait until the early hours before complaining of a low battery?
The sodding thing might have had the decency to start chirping yesterday afternoon, when there could hardly have been much more juice.
Why wait until now?
And so to bed, perchance to lie awake until 7:30, when I have to get up anyway.

Possibly temperature related - temp drops and the battery voltage drops - if it was just abpve the cutoff it is now just below the cutoff and the beep starts
and then keeps going for several years before anyone gets round to fixing it

Also - it is quieter at night so you hear it easier - and, of course, if you wake up at silly o'clock and are lying in bed wanting to go back to sleep then every noise becomes 1,000 times louder


Although I have come across some that beep if you haven't tested it for more than x months - so it could also be that

 

[numbnuts]

It's very foggy out

 

[Mo1959]

Damn, need to go round to the shop again. I forgot sugar and there's hardly any left. I've tried, but I just can't take my tea and coffee without it.

 

[Dave7]

Damn, need to go round to the shop again. I forgot sugar and there's hardly any left. I've tried, but I just can't take my tea and coffee without it.

You have not tried hard enough
When I gave up (years ago) I found coffee was easy and much nicer without. Strangely I struggled with tea.

 

[Dirk]

Mo.....I also watched the final part of The Tower.
I was disappointed in some ways as all the "badies" got away with their dirty deeds.
I like to see "badies" get their comeuppance.

Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work that way.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You have not tried hard enough
When I gave up (years ago) I found coffee was easy and much nicer without. Strangely I struggled with tea.

Niether of us take milk or sugar in our tea and coffee, its always drunk black.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Morning all. Can anyone explain why smoke detectors always wait until the early hours before complaining of a low battery?
The sodding thing might have had the decency to start chirping yesterday afternoon, when there could hardly have been much more juice.
Why wait until now?
And so to bed, perchance to lie awake until 7:30, when I have to get up anyway.

At least you didn't spend a couple of hours wandering around the house and out into the garden trying to identify where the beep was coming from...

 

[Tenkaykev]

Damn, need to go round to the shop again. I forgot sugar and there's hardly any left. I've tried, but I just can't take my tea and coffee without it.

I can remember chatting to one of our local runners and he referred to sugar as " white poison " He was a great coach and an excellent runner having won at least a couple of Marathons.

 

[welsh dragon]

I agree about the Tower. I wish the baddies had gotten what they deserved. Do you think there mighr be a second series? The wife kept the phone so that made me think it might be so. Maybe karma will pay them a visit if there is.

 

[Mo1959]

I can remember chatting to one of our local runners and he referred to sugar as " white poison " He was a great coach and an excellent runner having won at least a couple of Marathons.

I know.......and I totally agree I will have another go at gradually cutting down and see if I can almost do without.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I know.......and I totally agree I will have another go at gradually cutting down and see if I can almost do without.

I think it's refined sugar that is the " White poison " Mo. The normal sugars that you get in fruits and other foodstuffs is almost certainly OK.

 

[Dave7]

Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work that way.

But its not the real world.....its entertainment.
Next you will be telling me the Clint let the baddies escape.......HE KILLED 'EM DEAD !!

 

[Dave7]

I agree about the Tower. I wish the baddies had gotten what they deserved. Do you think there mighr be a second series? The wife kept the phone so that made me think it might be so. Maybe karma will pay them a visit if there is.

That is what MrsD thinks.