The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Morning folks less windy today so will be out for a spin showing off my splendid new mudguards to the world and my legions of adoring fans [a couple of scottie dogs next door and the horses in the field]. Im glad i have my maintenance book as im learning as i go, so give it a year and should be sussed to do most things.
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Looks good

 

[numbnuts]

Morning - nothing to report as yet

 

[Mo1959]

Enjoyed my walk. I was warm enough all the way up through the town then up the hill but there was a freezing northerly wind when I reached the summit so soon cooled down again! Supposed to be even colder tonight. I don't mind if it's dry.

Actually saw a few cyclist heading out for a jaunt. All wrapped up with buffs under their helmets and leg warmers, warm jackets, etc. Rather them than me. Lol

 

[Mo1959]

Still some nice autumn colours hanging on over the edge of the town on my way home.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, bright and chilly here too.

 

[GM]

Morning all... I've had a very busy week helping the boy out with a fiddly two handed job that he needed help with, glad it's a Sunday rest day with just taking the 🐶 for a walk.

 

[BoldonLad]

Sunday morning walk. The temperatures have fallen, 3c with 8c promised. Next week looks similar.

 

[ColinJ]

It is 11:40 and I am struggling to get out of bed - as usual, I am more tired than when I went to sleep.

I had intended to turn the light off at 04:30 but my phone crashed when I was trying to set the alarm and it was a deeper crash than ever before. Normally, holding down the power button gets it started again but this time it took me about 30 minutes to revive the device and the reset caused it to lose many of its settings. (I still haven't got the Wi-Fi set up on it because the password is downstairs and I am still in bed. I am using my tablet instead.)

It is a lovely sunny day but I bet that it is really chilly outdoors. I need to buy 2 or 3 things from Aldi and should do my hilly loop to go there but I am not sure that I can be bothered when feeling like this.

If I don't normalise my sleep pattern soon then I am in danger of starting to get up at sunset, eat breakfast at 5 pm, and my evening meal at midnight!

 

[classic33]

It is 11:40 and I am struggling to get out of bed - as usual, I am more tired than when I went to sleep.

I had intended to turn the light off at 04:30 but my phone crashed when I was trying to set the alarm and it was a deeper crash than ever before. Normally, holding down the power button gets it started again but this time it took me about 30 minutes to revive the device and the reset caused it to lose many of its settings. (I still haven't got the Wi-Fi set up on it because the password is downstairs and I am still in bed. I am using my tablet instead.)

It is a lovely sunny day but I bet that it is really chilly outdoors. I need to buy 2 or 3 things from Aldi and should do my hilly loop to go there but I am not sure that I can be bothered when feeling like this.

If I don't normalise my sleep pattern soon then I am in danger of starting to get up at sunset, eat breakfast at 5 pm, and my evening meal at midnight!

Your clock/timer is/was 40 minutes slow.

 

[ColinJ]

Oh, I was going to say that I saw something odd last night... I walked my friend to the railway station for the last train home. On the way back, I saw quite a decent bike locked to the stand in the Aldi car park. The store was closed, with all the lights off, so all the staff and customers had obviously gone home. I wondered why the bike was still there?

Had some cyclist been taken ill in the store and taken to hospital?

Had the owner left it there while they went on a pub crawl?

Was the owner even more forgetful than me, and walked home without their bike?

Then I noticed 2 cars parked close together at the far end of the car park with the drivers apparently talking through open car windows. I wondered if they might have placed a 'bait bike' in the rack and were waiting to see if anybody stole it? It seems unlikely, given how hard it can be to get police interested in bike theft, but who knows?

Anyway, it is now 12:10 and finally I feel less than half exhausted... Time to get up and face the day... Whoopee!

 

[ColinJ]

Your clock/timer is/was 40 minutes slow.

I type slowly on tablet screens!

 

[Dirk]

I must say that this Just Parking app seems to work very well.

 

[numbnuts]

Slow news day - I've just bought some ink

 

[ColinJ]

Was the owner even more forgetful than me, and walked home without their bike?

Or... Forgotten the number for the combination lock!

Mind you, the cable looked so flimsy that you could almost bite through it...

 

[Dirk]

Purveyor of stolen meat products in Beaminster?