The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning people, shopping Friday rolls round again, its very cold and frosty, the car will need de icing before I go out.

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks bit brighter here this morning. Ive been selecting a few climbing plants online and trying to order some without breaking the bank! Trouble is many companys lure you in with a rose for £12 then after typing in address and arriving at check out the price goes up to £35 or more Think i'll try and cadge a lift to a local nursery

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Hitching up in a couple of hours and heading up the M5 to Worcestershire for the start of our grand tour.
Fish & Chips at Upton upon Severn and a pint in the Three Kings is the order of the day.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. I’ve had a long lie The bed was just so cosy and it’s not cosy outside! Sun is out now though and coffee is finished so I am off for a wander.

 

[mikeIow]

Coming to the end of a fortnight of skiing….yesterday was low visibility, but we went out for a couple of hours, & I managed the (S) jumps….we only started skiing in our 40s, so have too much fear (no black runs for us!), but it is always lovely being on the mountains.
First 10 days were blue skies 😎

 

[welsh dragon]

Morning. -2 here with a smattering of snow. It's cold.

 

[Dave7]

'Twas another dark, cold start to the day and the garden is covered in frost.
Still battling with bl**dy paperwork.. especially from DWP...... They must only employ idiots.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Definitely given up on Wordle - another answer with so many options that 'worked' it was just a game of chance and thus boring.

Removed it from my phone to avoid future temptation.

Looks cold and windy out there - gonna Kindle in bed untill at least 10am and see how the rest of the day goes from then onwards.

HAGD all. 🙂

 

[numbnuts]

Morning

 

[Mo1959]

Back from a cold but lovely walk. Just the riverside trail this morning and picked up some milk and cat food in the supermarket on the way home. Nearly finished my porridge. Back on to the golden syrup one as I find I need a bit of sweetness to really enjoy my porridge.

I will watch the other video Colin linked to earlier now.

 

[PaulSB]

If you're pushing yourself hard every ride eventually you're likely to end up feeling fed up with it, it happened to me, I was doing club rides every other Sunday, spending my Sunday mornings sat in the pack flat out following a wheel, fun at first, but after a few years I started to think "why am I doing this, surly theres more than this" I dropped down to a slower more relaxed group and after a while I stopped doing the group rides altogether and started riding solo, I was doing the spring reliability rides and I stopped those as well but did the occasional Audax and some charity rides, now I just pootle round when I get time and just try and maintain some fitness. Interesting comment from a friend of mine who was a very good time trialist, after he stopped he said to me at a cafe stop "I've got nothing to prove anymore theres no point in continuing".

This is exactly what has happened to me this year. I decided to ride my Kinesis winter/gravel bike on road January to March 31st and to stay in the small ring. Fine in principle but in reality it left me frequently dropped, dispirited and fed up. Think I've got over that and if I ever get my Cervelo back I'll find out!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Definitely given up on Wordle - another answer with so many options that 'worked' it was just a game of chance and thus boring.

Removed it from my phone to avoid future temptation.

Looks cold and windy out there - gonna Kindle in bed untill at least 10am and see how the rest of the day goes from then onwards.

HAGD all. 🙂

I haven't looked at it yet, yesterdays Quordle I got down to one word left, one go left and two possible words, I guessed it right and got a rare four out of four.

 

[Mo1959]

Enjoyed that. I really need her as my personal mentor!

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning from a bright and frosty Lancashire morning. I'll head up to the allotment shortly to clean the asparagus bed and probably sow some more brassicas. I had already sown these but I've kept them in the house 48 hours too long and they're now rather thin and spindly.

Mentioning Katie Kookaburra again, she's based in my general area. I've followed her for a long time and think she's very level-headed offering a lot of good advice while passing on her experiences to people. To my mind she talks about the cycling many of us enjoy. Every now and again she rides a relatively local road we don't know and we file these away for future use - usually it's a climb followed by a great ride across the tops, which is the joy of climbing.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was out to do the supermarket run by eight, back by nine, I'll be out later to go to Coventry market.