The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Ah yes, sorry I remember your comments yesterday.

Now regular readers will recall Mrs P opened the "nice box of biscuits" she bought for Christmas. They the Tesco super extra chocolatey ones. All gone. I dutifully replaced these last Thursday.

This morning I went to the cupboard were we keep the Christmas food bits, cake, mince pies etc. Well!!!! Not only has Mrs P opened the second "nice box of biscuits for Christmas she has also opened the mince pies - we have two now.

This is punishable by death, at least, when the male of the species behaves like this.

Mrs P claims she needed the mince pies to take to bowling and share with her friends. 🤔🤔🤔

Back to the shops for you.

 

[welsh dragon]

Why does that name make me laugh?

It made my mum laugh when she first heard it as well.

 

[ColinJ]

Good morning folks, interesting minor central heating problem here, central heating set to manual, on a Monday night, and only on a Monday I'll switch the heating off when I go to bed and it'll switch itself back on during the night . I think I'll have to investigate the battery in the control unit.

The software might be doing a quick self-check routine? If it stays on for an extended period though, that sounds wrong. My boiler quickly switches itself on and off twice at around 03:30 and I am sure that is what it is doing.

I've been for a short bimble this morning, rode my Birchley Heath loop, 24 miles. The ride is a bit lumpy and on the fixed it makes for a good workout, out of Coventry through Keresley, up Breach Oak lane and on through Ansley, back into Coventry down the Tamworth road through Over Whitacre, Fillongley and Corley.

My mum lived for a couple of years in a sheltered flat at Henry Court, next to Holbrooks Park. I used to go down to visit her every couple of months and kept a singlespeed bike in Coventry so I could ride there and back from my sister's house in Coundon. I usually extended the outward ride to the Fillongley area and found those little hills quite challenging when overgeared. They would be nothing much on my normal bikes but hard in a 72" gear!

 

[Tenkaykev]

The software might be doing a quick self-check routine? If it stays on for an extended period though, that sounds wrong. My boiler quickly switches itself on and off twice at around 03:30 and I am sure that is what it is doing.

My Covid vaccine implanted microchips do the same, having had three jabs so far, I’m now on 15G 😉

 

[BoldonLad]

Hang about Mo.....RANT No 2 follows

Have read 1 &. 2, and, sympathise, are you going for Rant No. 3?

 

[BoldonLad]

Ooooo......what did you get? I'm getting ready to press the button on a new one but still dithering over three different choices.

Like @Mo1959 , I am in the Apple camp. Currently have an iPhone12 (gave the iPhoneX to grandson, and bought the 12 for myself). Just bought myself an Apple Watch as well.

Mrs @BoldonLad is an Android fan, and, currently has a Samsung S10. It is 3rd Samsung she has had, and, no complaints.

 

[Mo1959]

Like @Mo1959 , I am in the Apple camp. Currently have an iPhone12 (gave the iPhoneX to grandson, and bought the 12 for myself). Just bought myself an Apple Watch as well.

Mrs @BoldonLad is an Android fan, and, currently has a Samsung S10. It is 3rd Samsung she has had, and, no complaints.

I’m enjoying my watch more than I thought I would. Filled in all my exercise/move/stand rings since I got it.

The iPhone 13 isn’t getting all that brilliant reviews, particularly the camera but a decent upgrade getting rumoured for the 14 so I might consider upgrading then. Happy enough with the 11 though.

 

[Dave7]

Have read 1 &. 2, and, sympathise, are you going for Rant No. 3?

The World is not ready yet .
I will give it time to recover

 

[BoldonLad]

I’m enjoying my watch more than I thought I would. Filled in all my exercise/move/stand rings since I got it.

The iPhone 13 isn’t getting all that brilliant reviews, particularly the camera but a decent upgrade getting rumoured for the 14 so I might consider upgrading then. Happy enough with the 11 though.

Yes, I am enjoying the exercise/move/stand rings!

I find having the watch tell me to get off my backside and do something, with a little buzz, and a small notification message, preferable to Mrs @BoldonLad shouting at me, and/or deliberately vacuuming where I am sitting

 

[welsh dragon]

I like Samsung stuff. Have a Samsung phone and tablet. I've had Samsung tablets forever. I don't like Apple stuff

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The software might be doing a quick self-check routine? If it stays on for an extended period though, that sounds wrong. My boiler quickly switches itself on and off twice at around 03:30 and I am sure that is what it is doing.

My mum lived for a couple of years in a sheltered flat at Henry Court, next to Holbrooks Park. I used to go down to visit her every couple of months and kept a singlespeed bike in Coventry so I could ride there and back from my sister's house in Coundon. I usually extended the outward ride to the Fillongley area and found those little hills quite challenging when overgeared. They would be nothing much on my normal bikes but hard in a 72" gear!

My fixed is on a 42x17 65 inch gear, I'd find a 72 inch gear hard work and would be walking the hills, I find those hills hard work on my geared bike.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I've been for a short bimble this morning, rode my Birchley Heath loop, 24 miles. The ride is a bit lumpy and on the fixed it makes for a good workout, out of Coventry through Keresley, up Breach Oak lane and on through Ansley, back into Coventry down the Tamworth road through Over Whitacre, Fillongley and Corley. It was a good morning for a bike ride, cold and gray with only a light breeze. Kids are of school now so I get the chance to get out early, once the carers been I can get going, I was out about twenty to nine this morning. it was a good morning out on the bike, though I'm seriously unfit and very slow, I enjoyed the ride.

I do enjoy hearing you mention all those places that you pass through on your rides, those used to be my local roads too, back in my student days. A Christmas highlight was always the Boxing Day Cross on Kenilworth Common.

 

[numbnuts]

I like Samsung stuff. Have a Samsung phone and tablet. I've had Samsung tablets forever. I don't like Apple stuff

I have two samsung phones and two tablets and I like apples in pies

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I do enjoy hearing you mention all those places that you pass through on your rides, those used to be my local roads too, back in my student days. A Christmas highlight was always the Boxing Day Cross on Kenilworth Common.

The Boxing Day cross is still being run, unfortunately I've never had the time to go and watch it, always too busy with family stuff. Its run by the Coventry Road Club, a club I was a member of for over 20 years.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have just applied for my state pension online. Quick and easy to do. Hopefully o won't have any of the problems that others have had when applying. Roll on March