The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

It looks like the heavens are going to open up.and hiss down

Brilliant sunshine here

 

[Mo1959]

I went out for another couple of miles walk and the power was back on when I got home so wasn’t as bad as I feared.

The legs and feet are a bit weary so not sure if I’ll be back out or not.

 

[gavroche]

Salut tout le monde.
Took Molly to Angel bay where it is blowing a gale. She is so good now for her recall. All I need to do is whistle or just call her and she comes back.
I had call from the car dealer earlier to say that my new car is coming at the end of April. That will be 5.5 months since I ordered it. It will soon come round I guess and with a bit of luck, it might even be earlier.
A bientot.

 

[classic33]

It looks like the heavens are going to open up.and hiss down

Blue skies here all morning.

 

[PaulSB]

It's the most glorious afternoon but a touch chilly and windy. I am sorely tempted to stay on my laptop in front of the nicely warm and glowing stove but no! I will not. I've plotted a local route which RWGPS shows as 29 miles and 2634 feet. Off I go. With luck Strava will record it as 3000+

Catch you later

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Cold, grey and very windy here.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Wandered up to Wimborne to get a few things, 10.5k total distance. Just had a bowl of Mrs Tenkaykev’s carrot and coriander soup accompanied by a couple of buttershags*
Time for a nap 💤

* I was listening to the excellent “ Something rhymes with Purple “ podcast in which Giles Brandreth and Susy Dent explore the vagaries of the English language.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

buttershags*

I've slapped various things on Mrs SD over the years, cream, oils, molten choccie etc but never butter!

Not sure I fancy it tbh.

 

[numbnuts]

Another disastrous loaf, it just didn't rise and the yeast is a new bach and still in date.
I'm making another one now, if that does not rise maybe it's the machine, but it's only two years old.

 

[classic33]

Another disastrous loaf, it just didn't rise and the yeast is a new bach and still in date.
I'm making another one now, if that does not rise maybe it's the machine, but it's only two years old.

Maybe you didn't hit all the right notes!

 

[numbnuts]

Maybe you didn't hit all the right notes!

batch ...............D'oh

 

[numbnuts]

Another disastrous loaf, it just didn't rise and the yeast is a new bach and still in date.
I'm making another one now, if that does not rise maybe it's the machine, but it's only two years old.

Success still have one hour and 15 minutes to go and it just short of touching the lid, same ingredient as before, I don't know what I did wrong with the first one

 

[Paulus]

After a busy day in the garden, I now have a big saucepan of vegetable soup on the go.
The life of us pensioners is so busy.

 

[ColinJ]

You'll probably know most of this Chorley >Heapey >Anglezarke >Parsons Bullough >Sheephouse >Belmont Bleach Works >Edgworth >Roman Road to Blackburn >Heys Lane >Tockholes >Chorley.

The consensus was next time in Edgworth we take Broadhead Road - a beautiful climb and road - then descend Pickup Bank to Hoddlesdon to join Roman Road closer to Blackburn and we use Bog Heights to reach Tockholes instead of Heys Lane.

We left this out because Pickup Bank is dangerous at the best of times, lethal in winter.

As the ride is within a couple of miles of my house I didn't go to the start/finish.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/38221848

I have only been over there 2 or 3 times but will definitely go again.

 

[numbnuts]

The tale of two loafs