The Retirement Thread

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numbnuts

numbnuts

Squire
Location
Gone over the hill and far away
Dirk said:
That ain't yer ear! :eek:
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Tis so ....my right
 
Tenkaykev

Tenkaykev

Guru
Location
Poole
Mo1959 said:
Pardon.........speak up! :laugh:

A drizzly and puddly walk done. As annoying as the wet is, at least it's safe underfoot so hope the prediction of snow later is wrong.

I am having an experiment out of curiosity and stopping cow's milk for a while. Black coffee, herbal tea and have soya milk for my cereal and porridge. If nothing else, I might lose a few ounces :laugh:
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We have tried the various plant based " Milks " over the years. I do like oat milk, especially when used to make porridge, it's very good indeed. We've recently been using a Vanilla flavoured Soya milk and it is outstandingly good with cereals and Porridge. Our granddaughter likes Oatly chocolate milk, again it's good with cereals if you like chocolate, and I do occasionally have chocolate porridge 😮 I've just remembered that I've also tried Pea milk, it's made from yellow split peas and it doesn't taste of peas or anything much, quite pleasant and one I'd buy again.
 
Blue Hills

Blue Hills

^
Location
London
ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Blue Hills said:
folks nervous about ear wax images could always I suppose use it for certain bike maintenance purposes, sexual purposes, bike sexual purposes.
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Or, apparently, for cleaning keyboard cleaning and puppy whelping (:eek::wacko:)!

It will be interesting to see (hear!) how you get on with that. I will probably go the DIY route soon too. I got a bass guitar for Christmas and it is making my left ear buzz, which is really irritating. I get it with any reasonably loud noise, and even wind noise when out on my bike. I am fairly sure that the problem is due to wax build-up. Both ears have lost a lot of aural sensitivity recently and feel blocked up.
 
SpokeyDokey

SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
Location
Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Just deciding the running order of our Party For Two New Year's Bash.

Should be fun.

All the best to all of you Old Codgers for 2022. 👍
 
BoldonLad

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
PaulSB said:
Oh Lord! Please no more earwax xx( It's very upsetting for some of us.
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A few weeks ago, mrs @BoldonLad and myself attended a funeral. Afterwards, in these Covid times, there was no “wake”, but, we were invited for coffee with a few elderly (ie same age as us), acquaintances. The whole conversation was about various ailments; hip replacements; difficult toes nails; ear wax; etc etc. We had nothing to contribute, and, resolved not to repeat the experience. ;)
 
ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Location
Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
BoldonLad said:
The whole conversation was about various ailments; hip replacements; difficult toes nails; ear wax; etc etc. We had nothing to contribute, and, resolved not to repeat the experience. ;)
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At least I mix it up a bit... :whistle:
  • Earwax, earwax, earwax... annoying when learning bass guitar
  • Sore hips, stiff neck, back pain... make long distance hilly Pennine bike rides hard work
  • Forgetfulness, fuzzy head, confusion... slow down puzzle game app development
 
PaulSB

PaulSB

Squire
Location
Chorley, Lancashire
ColinJ said:
Translation: We are up our own arses! :whistle:

I am really surprised, Paul. It is a great tool to help plan new cycling routes.

I start with an OS map to come up with the basic route but always check unfamiliar roads on Streetview. It is a good way to spot potential pitfalls, and also points of interest.

I have spotted hazards like blind summits that look iffy for group rides. A quick check might then reveal multiple accidents at that location. Avoid!

I found that a very steep dip in a road near Scammonden is cobbled and the cobbles are in poor condition. Avoid! (I actually went to check the cobbles anyway and right enough, they were dodgy in the dry and would be lethal in the wet!)

It is also sometimes a good way of checking out how busy roads are. I have discovered roads that look innocent on the OS map that are busy rat runs in reality.

I found one road that caught the Streetview driver out. 'Private Road' is the name of one public road out your way. It obviously put the driver off because Streetview coverage stops at both ends of the road and is blank in between!
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There's quite a difference though between our riding. Very ocassionally I'll have a look to refresh my memory. For example there's a great little lane off the Clitheroe side of Waddy Fell I needed to check last year.

Along with my regular buddies we've done pretty much all the routes which touch the Cumbria, Yorkshire and Cheshire borders so there's not much we need to check out. My heat map has me at as riding approximately 95% of roads in a 40 mile radius.

We're very haphazard in some of our plans which is often "shall we go down here?" We can easily put in 100+ mile loop without having to think about it.

If I'm taking a club group gravel riding I'll go on a recce but only then.
 
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