The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Good afternoon all.
My next door neighbour, who has no mechanical knowledge whatsoever, I have mentioned him before, has just asked me to repair his bike.
At first glance looks like the rear axle has snapped, many off the ball bearings have been lost and the QR has also snapped.
I may have a rear axle in my box of bits, and I do have a bag of ball bearings of various sizes, I do wish he would buy a half decent bike instead of the junk things he gets from wherever.
Still it will give me something to do over the weekend.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That was impressive, I ordered tablets from Oxford Vitality, vitamins D3 and K2, at 7:51 this morning and they'd dispatched them by 8:45am.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We've had a profitable afternoon down the club, both my Good Lady and my Sister In Law won at bingo, all the organisers were there and we had a good crowd, plenty of laughs and gossip. Started of pushing my Good Lady down the chemist for a blood test, back home so she could have a P stop, then down the Cassilex cafe for a spot of lunch and then pushed her down to the Unicorn Club to spend the afternoon having some fun, home by bus, just needed to push her up the hill up Nunts Lane from the bus terminus to meadow road, pushing the wheelchair up there is a good workout guaranteed to get my heart rate up, knackered now, I might have a nap after tea.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Another 10k walk today. Headed for Wimborne and as I crossed the pedestrian / cyclists bridge I saw a group of riders heading towards me. About seven to eight of them were riding Brommies, and there were about four others riding Dahon / Tern style folders. There must be a local folding bike cycling group that I wasn't aware of. Snowdrops were out along the hedgerows. We arrived at our bus stop a couple of minutes after our bus had departed, a tough choice of either waiting in the cold or popping in to the Tap House 🤔 🍻

 

[numbnuts]

I'm talking rubbish, I've put the old bag outside for tomorrows pickup

 

[gavroche]

@ColinJ If you are not aware of it, there is a nice 30 minutes program on BBC4 called " Canal diaries" and tonight he is boating through your town for a couple of minutes. Thought you might like to see it. Looks like a nice place.
Still on now but on his way to Manchester. Get it on catch up after 7.30 pm.

 

[ColinJ]

That was impressive, I ordered tablets from Oxford Vitality, vitamins D3 and K2, at 7:51 this morning and they'd dispatched them by 8:45am.

Those are the ones that I take.

@ColinJ If you are not aware of it, there is a nice 30 minutes program on BBC4 called " Canal diaries" and tonight he is boating through your town for a couple of minutes. Thought you might like to see it. Looks like a nice place.
Still on now but on his way to Manchester. Get it on catch up after 7.30 pm.

Thanks - I'll watch that later before my main night-time viewing.

The veggie stir-fry in Hebden Bridge was very nice but I still felt a bit hungry when I got home so I topped up with seeded oatcakes, peanut butter and banana.

Ah - 'Stentorian'... It was the answer to an anagram clue in today's Metro cryptic crossword, which I have just completed.

When I was a teenager, I salvaged an old radiogram which was called 'The Stentorian'. The electronic parts were duff but it had a whacking big speaker which I used to connect my tape recorder to for louder more bassy output.

I worked out that the answer to the crossword clue must be 'stentorian' but didn't know what the word meant so I just looked it up... Stentor was the herald of the Greek forces in The Iliad, noted for his loud voice. Hence, stentorian - (of a voice) Loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds.

I must have a stentorian voice - this evening my pal asked me to speak more quietly because she thought I might disturb her neighbours!

 

[Exlaser2]

Night night everyone.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. It’s up here this morning. Not much above freezing.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning people, its dark and looks decidedly damp out, shopping day has come round again, the weeks are flying past, wordle done in four.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all fellow retirees.
It's just trying to get light down here, but it looks very cloudy with rain forecast for later on. There is also quite a strong breeze blowing.
All the usual stuff to do today, and then a meeting of the escape committee at the Mitre this afternoon.
The planned dinner for today is Sea Bass fillets with stir fry veg. Very quick and easy.
Enjoy your day everyone
Ps. Wordle done in 5.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. The weather looks quite calm at the moment but we have a 40% chance of heavy rain late morning. Today is a walking day and with the forecast we've decided to limit this to a circular local route from home with a stop at a newly opened cafe which has good reports.

The ironing didn't get done yesterday so I'll make a start shortly. I watched Munich: The Edge of War on Netflix last night. Very good and recommended.

Happy with yesterday's cycling efforts- 38.4 miles, 4383 feet gained 10.4mph avg. This is on par with the Fred Whitton and given my training route has very little opportunity to build average speed means I could be looking to 11.5/12.0 avg for The Fred. Very happy with this. Hoping to do this ride at least weekly. At the end of March I'll dig out the summer bike and attempt to do two loops.

 

[welsh dragon]

Morning. 2 deg and feels like -1 according to my weather map. Dull, damp and a bit of mist over the hills.

I have a loaf of bread baking my the bread maker. Yum

Stay safe peeps

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay! Guess what day it is?
Meeting up with best mates from Minehead for a walk around Heddon Valley and lunch at the Hunter's Inn.
http://www.thehuntersinnexmoor.co.uk/
It's usually pretty good there.

 

[Dave7]

Good day to one and all.
Good sleep last night.....woke at 06.30.
Looks 'orrible out there and we just had a heavy rain shower.
I have no plans apart from washing MrsDs hair and probably a shave and shower for me (hope I don't get them mixed up ).