The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Afternoon. A well timed walk done. Nearly all ice gone and back just as it was getting a bit nasty with wind and sleety rain. That’s me in for the day now.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Had a call from the Smart Meter engineer saying he was ahead of schedule and was it ok to come round earlier. When he arrived he looked in the meter cupboard and said that he couldn't do it. The meter sits inside a kitchen unit above the worktop and while there is easy access to the Meter and fuse board the incoming mains fuse is lower down and behind the tiled back that sits between the worktop and the kitchen cupboard unit.
If the mains fuse blows then I'd have to beat the tiles off the wall but in the meantime I'll leave things as they are. I've discussed it with Mrs Tenkaykev so I expect she'll suggest a new kitchen 🤔

We have a similar problem, we have two stop cocks in the house, one is in the back of the lounge and we had it replaced earlier this year, the second one is in the kitchen behind a fitted cupboard, its leaky and needs replacing, we've got damp in that corner, but the cupboard needs to come out to replace it, if I leave the whole job to the plumber its going to be costly, but I haven't yet worked out how the cupboard comes out, I looked at it and couldn't even work out how to get the worktop off.

 

[numbnuts]

Still and getting darker, I'll soon have to put the lights on

 

[welsh dragon]

Bright sunshine here. A tad breezy

 

[Salad Dodger]

Blimey, that was some morning!

Its been blowing a gale down on Planet Thanet since early this morning. Despite the wind, we led our regular Tuesday walking group for a seafront stroll, culminating in lunch at a beachside pub. Because, according to the weather guesses, rain would not set in until about 3pm

Storm Barra obviously didn't get that memo. It started raining at about 1pm, so our walk back to the car saw us looking like two drowned rats...

Now sitting indoors with the fire alight, and a mug of tea at my side. I'm just psyching myself up to go out for some essential supplies, such as milk, biscuits and sherry.

Have a good day, everyone, and take care. Its pretty wild out there!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Been sleeting all afternoon. Dug out the tree.

 

[gavroche]

Back from Exeter with good news. Daughter's mammogram is clear so hopefully, the cancer has gone. On the way back, they wanted to stop at the Range and Ikea . Boriiiiiiiing but I couldn't say no.
The trouble with Ikea is that once you are in, you have to go all the way round the one system before you can get out. They did buy a few things before heading back to Bideford.
At least I got the chance to drive my old Captur there and back which I enjoyed doing. Our daughter is very pleased with the car too, especially the fuel economy she gets compared to the Ford Fiesta she had before.
More driving tomorrow to near Stoke on Trent before heading home on Thursday.

 

[welsh dragon]

It's getting a bit blustery here now.

 

[ColinJ]

There seemed to have been a lot of rain here before I got up, and the wind was very strong and gusty. It had stopped raining though so I took my chance to get out for a quick walk to the station for my Metro. (It was too windy to get the bike out!)

I just checked - we have had more rain since then, but it has stopped again and the wind has dropped. I can even see some blue sky as the sun is setting.

The noise from next door seems to be being made by builders rather than the householders themselves. Hopefully that means the work will be completed more quickly!

The owner of dog-the-size-of-a-pony has let it crap bang in the middle of the pavement again and not picked it up. Once again, they didn't even bother dragging it 1 metre to the gutter... Why bother, eh, when there is a perfectly decent pedestrian path to cover with excrement? It's a bloody good job that I don't actually witness this happening or I could very easily get involved in a horrible neighbours-from-hell battle. (Scooping up the damn sh*t with a shovel and throwing it over their fence into their yard, then getting into a fight about that...)

I strongly suspect that I do know who is responsible. There are a couple of very large husky-like dogs owned by a family down the road. I sometimes see the dogs being taken on a tour of the local streets. I haven't see any other dogs round here big enough to produce those mounds. Still, suspicion is not proof, and it is probably better that I don't find out who is responsible!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Back from Exeter with good news. Daughter's mammogram is clear so hopefully, the cancer has gone. On the way back, they wanted to stop at the Range and Ikea . Boriiiiiiiing but I couldn't say no.
The trouble with Ikea is that once you are in, you have to go all the way round the one system before you can get out. They did buy a few things before heading back to Bideford.
At least I got the chance to drive my old Captur there and back which I enjoyed doing. Our daughter is very pleased with the car too, especially the fuel economy she gets compared to the Ford Fiesta she had before.
More driving tomorrow to near Stoke on Trent before heading home on Thursday.

There are shortcuts in IKEA stores if you know where to look.
There are secret shortcuts all around the store.


“ While the stores are designed to take shoppers through every department and showrooms, there are multiple quick routes that are opened to the public throughout the stores that are accessible through unmarked service doors. “
I’ve visited the Southampton store and some of the shortcuts are discretely signposted.

 

[gavroche]

There are shortcuts in IKEA stores if you know where to look.
There are secret shortcuts all around the store.


“ While the stores are designed to take shoppers through every department and showrooms, there are multiple quick routes that are opened to the public throughout the stores that are accessible through unmarked service doors. “
I’ve visited the Southampton store and some of the shortcuts are discretely signposted.

Thanks for that but I don't intend to go there again for a long time.

 

[Biker man]

New chest blaster has arrived.

What is that?

 

[welsh dragon]

Just got insurance quotes for my house I had a choice between £403.00 or £178.00 tricky decisson there.

And don't forget folks, if you have insurance of any kind very soon, all insurance policies that are offered cannot charge customer more for those tho have been loyal customers as opposed to new customers who are offered discounts to move ypur business to them so the chances are prices in general will increase.

 

[Juan Kog]

It's getting a bit blustery here now.

Beans on toast for lunch ?

 

[welsh dragon]

Beans on toast for lunch ?
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Thankfully no