The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Popped out for a 30 minute wander round the streets. Still quite balmy out. I might watch a Maigret repeat on ITV3 at 8.

 

[pawl]

We are having fish and mushy peas today.

Did you forget the chips?

 

[rustybolts]

Hi Mo I've got £10,000 put by for a car, but I can't find anything that is low mileage, auto and an estate that I can fit my trike inside, The Ford Mondeo Est was great, but all the ones I have seen have 90,000 miles + or are too expensive. Since the accident second hand car prices have risen by over £1000, people are not changing their cars so there is a shortage, well there is in the south, but I'll keep looking something will turn up.

Keep an eye on
https://www.trustford.co.uk/
sometimes there are estate Mondeos available

 

[welsh dragon]

Did you forget the chips?

I was good and didn't have any chips

 

[BoldonLad]

57 miles done today, first ride in shorts as opposed to tights this year. Wind was not as calm as Google Weather told me / lied to me / make it up as they go!

Masses of security at the Oil Refineries in Ellesmere Port, had the private road, which you can normally cycle down, closed with guards everywhere. Had to turn back and use another route.

Don't know if they were expecting "green" protestors or Russians!!

Is it not simply the value of the Oil inside, now that the price has increased so much?

 

[BoldonLad]

MrsD gets her state pension next month.
Just as well as she's just found a new handbag shop.

Same here. I get my very first pro rata payment next month.

I have discovered nice shoes. Wooohoo

Well done, it is a valuable job you are doing, boosting the economy

 

[ColinJ]

I'm going to phone Plusnet later and see if I can get them to do me a better deal.

They have given me a new 24 month contract at the old price, though I have agreed to annual inflation + 3.9% increases.

They also did a broadband check for me after I told them that Netflix and Prime Video have been locking up for 10 or 15 seconds most nights. They can see a few errors cropping up here and there so they are sending an engineer out for a free service visit. They also noticed that my router is a bit old so they are replacing it with a new one, also free.

Yay!

 

[Chislenko]

Maybe they recognised you from on here and with a Russian Spy sounding user name you weren't in with a chance of getting through. 😁😁😁

To be fair, although not a spy, my user name is a Russian footballer from the 60's

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Chislenko

 

[ColinJ]

I called in at Lidl and for the first time since the store was built several years ago, I saw a driver pull up at one of the recharging points and plug his car in. I can't think of any other public recharging points in Todmorden. I am surprised that the Aldi store was built without including any. I would have thought that it would be a condition for giving building consent these days***!

The Lidl charging point is like a fuel pump at a garage. A chunky thing with cables coming out like petrol/diesel pipes.

I had a closer look round the Aldi car park and discovered that there IS a charging point. The reason that I hadn't spotted is that it is very small. There are sockets but no cables so you would have to use your own.

 

[classic33]

The Lidl charging point is like a fuel pump at a garage. A chunky thing with cables coming out like petrol/diesel pipes.

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I had a closer look round the Aldi car park and discovered that there IS a charging point. The reason that I hadn't spotted is that it is very small. There are sockets but no cables so you would have to use your own.

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Wonder if you could charge an e-assist bike at one of those points?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No. It is tied in with your birthday, and your national insurance number. The national insurance number determines the date you get your pension I believe, so between my birthday and the date I would get my pension 4 weeks later gives me pro rata payment for the first time. After that, I will be paid on the right date and the right amount

Interesting that you will not necessarily receive a pension payment for the first few days after your State Pension age under certain circumstances:

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/what-youll-get

 

[ColinJ]

Wonder if you could charge an e-assist bike at one of those points?

Good question!

Interesting that you will not necessarily receive a pension payment for the first few days after your State Pension age under certain circumstances:

https://www.gov.uk/state-pension/what-youll-get

It would be annoying if you were 6 days out - about £159 lost!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Good question!


It would be annoying if you were 6 days out - about £159 lost!

Or even more depending on how much pension you are being (or will receive) paid.

My 66th birthday is on a Weds this coming November and my payday is Thursday so it looks like I will dip out on 3 days worth of SP.

Not a big deal but mildly irritating.

 

[ColinJ]

Or even more depending on how much pension you are being (or will receive) paid.

That is 6/7 of the new £185 state pension. Another day difference and you would get the full week - I can't see any sense in that!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

That is 6/7 of the new £185 state pension. Another day difference and you would get the full week - I can't see any sense in that!

I agree with you plus understand the maths; my point was that the daft rule may cost someone even more depending on how much SP they receive each year eg mine will be just shy of £11k.