The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I haven't got a Actifry
but I do frozen chips, aunt bessie's

Yep..... they are nice

 

[Juan Kog]

Good morning folks,
The pub has a lovely traditional feel, and hasn’t turned into a tourist trap.
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That won’t last long after your glowing review .

 

[Dave7]

You were lucky!
We used to dream of having an electric paint stripping gun.

You were lucky.....we had to make do with a pudding spoon.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Going to check on the caravan first thing then drop in to Tesco to pick a few things up. Will walk the old doggie on the way back.

 

[Dave7]

Good morning folks,
I was talking to Mrs Tenkaykev about our trip to the Lord Nelson on Poole Quay yesterday. I’d not been there for yonks, and then usually in the summer where we’d sit outside. The pub has a lovely traditional feel, and hasn’t turned into a tourist trap. Friendly staff and a gorgeous pub cat named “ pusscat”
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If it comes with chips and gravy I will have a go

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning all, dawning quite bright just now.
In Edinburgh we have tenements, townhouses, and villas. Villas are basically flats, upper and lower.

I didn't know that. Never too old to learn.

 

[Dave7]

Good morning (I think).
Do you ever 'wake up' feeling drugged?
It was awful, dragging myself out of bed.
Had a coffee and gradually coming around.
I do /did have plans but not sure now. I will report back

 

[Drago]

Oh yeah, I have risen!

 

[Dave7]

I thought you were getting confused with ladies foundation garments.
“Balconette bras give a fantastically rounded shape with lots of support. The uplifting style looks great on everyone,”

Load of rubbish.
I tried one and it did nothing for me

 

[welsh dragon]

12 deg here and hissing down again. Very misty as well. I have to go to town to post something so may pop into the crappy Co Op for odds and sods. Maybe

 

[pawl]

I thought you were getting confused with ladies foundation garments.
“Balconette bras give a fantastically rounded shape with lots of support. The uplifting style looks great on everyone,”

Even the male of the species I for one don’t intend to try

 

[classic33]

If it comes with chips and gravy I will have a go

Food that fresh it walks to your table.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Load of rubbish.
I tried one and it did nothing for me

Basically the reason for that is that you're t*** ain't big enough, lol.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm feeling tired... I was up after less than 4.5 hours sleep because I had a blood test booked at 08:50 this morning.

It turns out that I would have been woken up even if I hadn't set my alarm. A friend who gets up as early as you lot texted me at 07:55 to wish me a HNY in advance. My phone is about 50 cms from my head when I sleep so even though my hearing isn't great, I always hear alarms, calls, and texts arriving. 07:55 probably sounds like mid-morning to y'all, but to me that is more like the middle of the night, and definitely a bit early to be contacting people!

As expected, my INR** was high today. That means that I am over-anticoagulated. It will be due to the combined effects of change of diet over Christmas, a lack of exercise recently, and the 2 jabs that I had just before Christmas. The trouble is, that test result will probably trigger changes to my prescription just as everything would otherwise be returning to normal. If so, I will end up under-anticoagulated... This process can be a right nuisance - it can take weeks of messing about to get back to where I was in the first place. I'm hoping that the clinic staff accept what I have told them and trust me to get things back to normal myself over the next 2 weeks. If so, they will just reduce my dose for this weekend, then leave it alone until another test in 2 weeks time.

I'm going to have a snooze soon and do these things later when I have more energy...

• Have a blast on my turbo trainer for half an hour or so.
• Plan how I am going to approach learning to play my new bass guitar, and get stuck in on lesson #1.
• Tackle 'the notch'! My phone is an older model which is 'notch'-free. I have my prototype puzzle game working well on that, but it dawned on me recently that many modern phones have some cut-outs or notches in their displays. I need to check for where any notches are and avoid displaying anything important there. I will display a full screen background image including any notch area(s) and limit the important stuff to the rectangular notch-free area. What a pain those notches are, and ugly too!

** International Normalised Ratio - standardised measure of blood clotting time.

 

[ColinJ]

In Edinburgh we have tenements, townhouses, and villas. Villas are basically flats, upper and lower.

I didn't know that. Never too old to learn.

I knew about tenements, and suspected that there would be other variations round the UK, hence...

The traditional name for an 'apartment' (in England, at least) was 'flat'