The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Inflation this week:

Mon: Green Flag gone up by £13 pa.

Weds: Coal gone up by £2 per bag so £70 pa.

Fri: Council Tax up by £38 pa.

Fri: Mrs SD's hair-do day; £138 as per usual but going up in April so have temporarily dodged a bullet there!

Less money for the kids to fritter away then.

As the Holly Boring Money blog put it; "Rishi is doing battle with an increasingly greedy money pig and no amount of lipstick can make it look better."

 

[SpokeyDokey]

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun,
But it's sinking.
Racing around to come up behind you again.
Sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of brreath and one day closer to death.

Good words.

Got the album when it first came out in early '73 when I had just turned 15, coincided with losing my V Card as they call it today.

I remember the album much more than the latter which was not so great.

One of the best album's ever imo.

My Mum used to call this track "The Cave Music" as it was the background to some program on the BBC (I think - not much channel choice back then) at the time about caving.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EzURpTF5c8

 

[12boy]

Visit at the cardio doc went well. I can do more and next Thursday I am able to be pretty 100% except for the bike. Cool and cloudy this am but will be warmer later. It will get really warm next week and a lot of pasty flesh will be on view. Then it will get cold again. April snowfall, wet and heavy, is needed badly.
Be safe and well.

 

[Paulus]

Same here.
I saw somewere that every household at one time had two copies of it - one vinyl and one CD.

The only Pink Floyd album I couldn't really get to grips with was Umaguma.
I saw them once at Earl's Court. Going to see the tribute band, Australian Pink Floyd in October which apparently are extremely good and the real band endorse them.

 

[numbnuts]

Inflation this week:

Mon: Green Flag gone up by £13 pa.

Weds: Coal gone up by £2 per bag so £70 pa.

Fri: Council Tax up by £38 pa.

Fri: Mrs SD's hair-do day; £138 as per usual but going up in April so have temporarily dodged a bullet there!

Less money for the kids to fritter away then.

As the Holly Boring Money blog put it; "Rishi is doing battle with an increasingly greedy money pig and no amount of lipstick can make it look better."

With all the increases I did a tally of everything, taking off the increases in pension, benefit ect and I'm only going to be £5.92 worse off a month

 

[classic33]

How do you know you Looney Toons?

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[Dirk]

Cracking lunch in Lynmouth.
Saw 3 Red Kites circling over Woody Bay station on the way back. 🐔🐔🐔

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That was very pleasant, I've just spent an hour pottering about in the garden, weedings been done the thee plants I've moved got watered, my good Ladies pots have been checked over, weeded and watered, and I've had a bit of a tidy up, a very nice way to pass a spare hour.

 

[Chief Broom]

Afternoon folks had a couple of pleasant surprises today firstly on my ride home past Loch Brora i said to myself I bet thats an osprey, and sure enough it dived with a tremendous sploosh! secondly i received a big box of 4 persian rugs from a person i used to work for as a gardener in Somerset. My place could do with a bit of colour and the rugs certainly help
I planted my rose yesterday and finished making the compost bin

 

[The Jogger]

The only Pink Floyd album I couldn't really get to grips with was Umaguma.
I saw them once at Earl's Court. Going to see the tribute band, Australian Pink Floyd in October which apparently are extremely good and the real band endorse them.

Was that The Wall concert? I got to go to that one at Earls Court.

 

[numbnuts]

Someone has died in the next block police, ambulance and undertakers are all there, I don't know who it is, but I'm sure to know them

 

[Paulus]

Was that The Wall concert? I got to go to that one at Earls Court.

No, it was in 1973, just after dark side of the moon came out.

 

[ColinJ]

Fri: Mrs SD's hair-do day; £138 as per usual but going up in April so have temporarily dodged a bullet there!

Sorry, that's not strong enough... !!!!!!!!!!

The only Pink Floyd album I couldn't really get to grips with was Umaguma.

I liked it! My older sister has 4.5 years on me so I got to hear records before I otherwise would have done. For example, she bought all the Beatles singles from when I was 6 or 7. She had all the early Pink Floyd albums. And so on...

Umagumma has the weirdest named track ever recorded.
"Several small species of animals living in a cave and grooving with a Pict"

Ha ha - I was just thinking of that one!

I don't think that I have heard Ummagumma for about 40 years. I'd like to hear it again. Hang on...

Here it is on YouTube. I'll put it on in the background while I do other things...



Bike news - I decided to have another go at the singlespeed bike...

I suddenly realised how conspiracy theories work! People get ideas in their heads and search for evidence that supports those beliefs, and ignore evidence that contradicts them. Hence Russian family members living in the Ukraine phoning home and telling their parents what is actually going on, but the parents refusing to believe them!

I had decided that the noise was coming from the bike transmission. It certainly sounded like it was! The thing is, I was finding it very hard to track down. I actually know that sometimes noises can sound like they originate from somewhere other than where they really come from but I ignored that knowledge. I swapped rear wheels and the noise continued. That meant it HAD to be coming from the frame, the bottom bracket, the chainring, the pedals, or the cranks. Didn't it?

Well, the frame doesn't have any cracks in it. Every bottom bracket fault I have ever seen/heard is very obvious - clunks, sharp clicks, wobbles etc. I had taken the cranks off and spun the bottom bracket axle by hand it felt smoooooooth! The chainring is a bit worn but the chain is not slipping and there are no burrs on the teeth to flick the chain. I have already swapped the cranks and pedals on this bike fairly recently... The problem MUST lie elsewhere!

I put all of my suspicions to one side and went back to first principles. I found the damn problem in 10 seconds!

If I stood up on climbs and pedalled really hard the bike was almost silent. If I sat down and twiddled on the flat, tick, click, creak - it was the pesky seatpost clamp/saddle rails!!

I came back from my test ride and got to work. The clamp bolts were very dry and hard to turn so I took them out and lubed the threads. I replaced them and did them up nice and tight after also lubing the saddle rails. Back out for another test ride... SILENCE!!

Thank goodness for that! Now I just have to switch the wheels back.

I have just installed my new router. I don't expect to notice much difference because the old one worked pretty well but I was getting a security warning on that and don't on the new one.

Now I am realising how many wifi devices I have. I have changed the wifi settings on 4 so far, but there are several more upstairs that I haven't done yet. And my regular guests will have to update their devices too...

 

[ColinJ]

Ummagumma was a double album, with each member given one side to fill as they pleased. Interesting outcome. Even the group said they would never perform it live!!

Immediately after I read that I looked up and saw the track listing on my TV screen. The 2 sides of disc 1 were old stuff and the 2 sides of disc 2 appeared to be shared between the 4 band members!

 

[BoldonLad]

We have had superb weather today, 17C, calm, and sunny. We went cycling (our coastal circuit, 20 miles). One amusing incident (well, it amused me), we encountered a chap walking two, what looked like, aggressive fighting type dogs. As Mrs @BoldonLad went to pass one of them, it crouched down and started whimpering, no way could the owner get it to walk past us. He had to pick it up and carry it. Now, I know I am scared of Mrs @BoldonLad, but, I expected more of the local fighting dogs!