The Retirement Thread

[Juan Kog]

Dull Damp and Dismal here as well . Aldi sometime this morning, we don’t do dash , Mrs JK still in bed . Must remember butter this time . Mrs JK’s sister ( the older one) is visiting for a few days, she has a key so can let herself in .
All my SiL’s have our front door key , from when Mum lived with us .🤔 As they won’t give keys back maybe get a locksmith in . .

 

[PaulSB]

Good day. My health seems to be back to normal apart from the usual remains of a cold. 👍 Mrs P sounds terrible.

Wet and windy out. Haircut 💈 this morning followed by visit to No 2 son. He received FiFa 2022 for his xBox as a birthday present. From the little he is able to tell me I don't think it's working.

I'm being sent to solve this. Phones, computers, laptops I'm OK. xBox? I struggle to understand the controller. I may be gone some time.

 

[ColinJ]

It is damp, depressing and murky here - ugh!

I have had some winters here where it was like this every day from the start of December until the end of March. I hope that this coming winter isn't going to be one of them...

I am officially knackered! Bed 03:45, lights out 04:40, sleep 05:xx, woken by sound of stampeding elephants 07:45! No, I am not surrounded by large animals with tusks - my pal was here and she is like you - gets up at silly o'clock...

Normally, pal sneaks quietly around the house so I don't hear her. For some reason she was really noisy this time. I was woken by the sound of the bed being moved in the attic room above me. Why she was doing that I don't know! Perhaps she had dropped her Kindle or phone down the side of it and needed to get it back?

Anyway, after that I heard every noise she made until she left at 08:45. I got up to say goodbye to her and made a mug of tea for myself but have now gone back to bed.

I am going to have to have a snooze ASAP because my brain is scrambled from lack of sleep. Catch you later...

 

[ColinJ]

Aaaargh, the bloody neighbours are now using a drill on the party wall. And moving heavy furniture about. Oh, and now using a hammer. You couldn't make this up!

Today is going to be a half-awake half-asleep one...

Oh, a more subtle sound now... Scraping off wallpaper with a talk-in-a-loud-voice chaser!

I... NEED... SOME... SLEEP!!!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good Morning Folks,
All togged up to go for my run when the heavens opened. I'll wait for it to abate before heading out. I see that one of the Forum members is sending Storm Barra down to me tomorrow. Very generous, thanks very much 😉
Smart Meter fitting tomorrow, must clean out the electricity meter cupboard which is inside a fitted kitchen cupboard that tends to accumulate all sorts of random stuff, perhaps I'll find something useful.
Stay safe folks ☔️🏃🏻‍♂️

 

[Dave7]

By the cringe.......its cold out there.
Back from Aldi and NOT planning to go out again.
Brekie today is fresh melon.
Lunch (for me) will be warm baked cob with pork and either mustard or vine tomatoes........not sure which sounds nicest.
Mrs D will be having a ready meal

 

[ColinJ]

Didn't your parents give you going up/down flights of stairs lessons? It should be a fluid walking motion not sounding like training for the triple jump - run, thump, thump, pause, scoosh!

Ah, they are back. With a new scraper. And drill. And... hammer. And, er, an electric screwdriver?

And a loud conversation.

And a barking dog.

The drill has now had its hammer action turned on.

OFFS - I am getting up!!!!!

 

[Mo1959]

Didn't your parents give you going up/down flights of stairs lessons? It should be a fluid walking motion not sounding like training for the triple jump - run, thump, thump, pause, scoosh!

Ah, they are back. With a new scraper. And drill. And... hammer. And, er, an electric screwdriver?

And a loud conversation.

And a barking dog.

The drill has now had its hammer action turned on.

OFFS - I am getting up!!!!!

That’s what you get for not trying to sleep during the night!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Didn't your parents give you going up/down flights of stairs lessons? It should be a fluid walking motion not sounding like training for the triple jump - run, thump, thump, pause, scoosh!

I walk ( and run ) from the hips as it is more efficient ( for me ) I used to race walk so I can mince along at quite a lick if I put my mind to it 😁

 

[ColinJ]

That’s what you get for not trying to sleep during the night!

I shouldn't really moan about the neighbours - they did wait until 09:00-ish before starting.

In Hebden Bridge, our street had this done to us in the middle of the night once. Literally, about 03:00... I reckon drink and/or drugs were involved. I heard it from 2 or 3 houses away. It ended up with neighbours in dressing gowns kicking their front door and screaming threats at them.

That was in a quiet middle-class street, not some horrid rough estate.

Hmm, a new power tool! I can't figure out what that is... Electric sander, or saw perhaps. Actually, I reckon it is a router. The whirring blade type, not the facilitate talking crap on internet type!

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour from Devon for a quick visit. Off to Exeter hospital tomorrow morning for our daughter's first check up on her breast cancer from last year's operation. One year ago already !!!
Going back to Stoke for an overnight stay at our other daughter on Wednesday and then back to Wales on Thursday.

 

[ColinJ]

I walk ( and run ) from the hips as it is more efficient ( for me ) I used to race walk so I can mince along at quite a lick if I put my mind to it 😁

I always thought that was a REALLY weird sport!!

You want to run, but the rules say you can't, and it is very hard to see if you actually ARE running so gangs of judges stare at slow-mo video replays to decide whether to DQ you or not.

Which became irrelevant because the unnatural movement wore both of your hips out halfway through the race so you were forced to abandon anyway!

 

[numbnuts]

mmmmorning

 

[Tenkaykev]

I always thought that was a REALLY weird sport!!

You want to run, but the rules say you can't, and it is very hard to see if you actually ARE running so gangs of judges stare at slow-mo video replays to decide whether to DQ you or not.

Which became irrelevant because the unnatural movement wore both of your hips out halfway through the race so you were forced to abandon anyway!

From time to time I would tease my running group by dropping into a race walk and still managing to keep up with them 😁

 

[ColinJ]

I am going to get up, have breakfast, then try to work on my puzzle game. That will send me to sleep in about 15 seconds. I always worry that my £800 laptop will fall off my lap when that happens (multiple times a day) but so far it hasn't.

I seem to freeze when I doze off sitting up. I once fell asleep with a pint of beer in my hand and woke up hours later having not spilled a drop!

Hacksaw sound now!!

Okay, where are the hidden cameras? This is clearly one of those setups where things are done to members of the public to get a reaction for some low budget TV clips comedy show. I am not biting. I am going to pretend that it is perfectly normal to make that amount of DIY noise!