The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

It's a piece of metal with an engine. it will rust away in time, it doesn't matter a jot if the scratches might adversely affect how much you need to pay for the next shinier piece of metal with an engine that will rust away.
Hope your wife is ok and not too shaken up.

It is an expensive bit of metal and looking after it helps keep its value, same as your house which is mainly a pile of bricks.
My wife was never in any danger as it is only a scratch. I am the sort of person who likes my things to look new, even if a few years old, whether it is my car, my bikes or anything else.
Having some pride in your possessions is something I value.

 

[welsh dragon]

My car is back home . £467. That's it for another 12 months.

 

[BoldonLad]

Not happy. My wife scratched the car.
I will need to have it seen to ( the car , not my wife) as It is part exchanged towards the new one.
I haven't seen how bad it is yet but will look in daylight.
My wife is not very good at driving in the dark and that's when it happened.

No matter how bad it is... stay calm, say the right thing(s)... ie "so long as you are unhurt dearest wife... etc etc"

 

[ColinJ]

YouTube again...

Don't try this once Anger Emulation Mode ® has been turned on!

 

[ColinJ]

That is the future of Amazon zero hours contractors!

 

[ColinJ]

Any recommendations for home contents insurance, and to include cover for my bikes out and about? Also desirable - cover for legal fees and damages in case of involvement in a serious accident***.

I used to get all of that on my home and contents insurance when I was a property owner.


*** I do not expect to be causing such an accident, but I remember reading about one cyclist being sued after a simple touch of wheels left the other rider with life-changing injuries.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I didn't realise that our Welsh dragon had visited the midlands recently.

 

[welsh dragon]

I didn't realise that our Welsh dragon had visited the midlands recently.

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Not very big are they

 

[Dirk]

Not very big are they

I didn't know you wore thongs. 🤔

 

[ColinJ]

I didn't know you wore thongs. 🤔

Well... thongs ain't what they used to be!

 

[classic33]

Well... thongs ain't what they used to be!

Its more thongs for the memory.

 

[ColinJ]

Its more thongs for the memory.

My memory is not that good!

 

[classic33]

My memory is not that good!

It's not that bad either.

 

[ColinJ]

The only negative so far is the lack of an obvious missed notification reminder. There is a way-too-subtle icon on the lockscreen, but I have my screen covered anyway when the phone is not in use. I would like a way of getting the phone to make a user-defined sound at a user-defined interval until all notifications are cleared e.g. beep every 10 minutes.

I tried a reminder app, but haven't managed to get it to work reliably. I will keep looking for an alternative. (Any suggestions for a suitable Android app? )

THIS ONE looks promising. I have been running it this evening and it has worked well so far. If it turns out to be reliable I will pay a few £ to say thanks and get a couple of extra features.

 

[12boy]

I used to love my thongs. Course, nowadays we call em flipflops. And I still wear them in the summer time.