The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Sorry folks - I tried dehumidifying the UK for you but I'm afraid that I am going to give up now before I spend a fortune on electricity!

On rainy days when I couldn't dry washing outdoors, I had started using a dehumidifier to dry my washing rather than a tumble dryer. I got several litres of water out of yesterday's wash. I watched the drip rate into the container go from one every couple of seconds to one every 10 seconds or so. I switched the machine off while I slept last night and then put it back on this morning to get the last few percent of water out of the clothes. To my surprise, the drip rate was back up again. I have been running it all day and the penny has just dropped... the washing is dry but the atmosphere in Todmorden is NOT and I have the window open behind the tumble dryer!

 

[rustybolts]

Reasonably productive morning as I am enjoying peace and quiet with my neighbours being away. Bucket of soapy water and washed my shed down ready for another couple of coats of Sadolin Superdec paint but we are due rain so better not do it till tomorrow. Once the bin lorry had emptied the garden waste bin I set to work cutting quite a bit more of a couple of shrubs out the front and filled it again. Time for lunch now.

Did you pay yourself £175 for trimming the garden bushes !

 

[pawl]

Has mundane news disappeared The only way I can access it is by going into my reaction’s received.

 

[Mo1959]

Has mundane news disappeared The only way I can access it is by going into my reaction’s received.

Still under General Chat as usual. Are you Dave 7 in disguise?

 

[ColinJ]

Has mundane news disappeared The only way I can access it is by going into my reaction’s received.

As we usually tell @Dave7, you have probably accidentally put the thread on 'Ignore'... Go into it via those reactions and click on 'Unignore thread'!

 

[Mo1959]

Simon Howie the butcher is from the same village as me and was in the primary school giving a talk today. He put some pics up. Nice to see they have kept the old school dux boards. Yours truly in 1971

 

[ColinJ]

Simon Howie the butcher is from the same village as me and was in the primary school giving a talk today. He put some pics up. Nice to see they have kept the old school dux boards. Yours truly in 1971



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Is that the annual school clever clogs list?

We didn't have a fancy board like that (or a fancy name for the clever clogs!). We just had a 'top boy' and 'top girl' in each class.

PS I have just remembered being given an Airfix model kit of a Spitfire one year for being top boy. Funny how these things can be locked away in one's mind for nearly 60 years and then be dredged back out!

 

[pawl]

Still under General Chat as usual. Are you Dave 7 in disguise?

First name is correct but not the7

 

[pawl]

As we usually tell @Dave7, you have probably accidentally put the thread on 'Ignore'... Go into it via those reactions and click on 'Unignore thread'!

Thanks Colin j I’ll have a look

 

[pawl]

As we usually tell @Dave7, you have probably accidentally put the thread on 'Ignore'... Go into it via those reactions and click on 'Unignore thread'!

Must have as you suggested and put the thread ignore Wouldn’t have put it deliberately as that and the retirement threads are the first ones I look at while having breakfast..

Thanks problem solved.

 

[pawl]

Simon Howie the butcher is from the same village as me and was in the primary school giving a talk today. He put some pics up. Nice to see they have kept the old school dux boards. Yours truly in 1971



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Nice to see someone’s name.

MrsP asked why I called myself pawl Explained the relationship to cycling. Even showed her a diagram of a free wheel Mrs p reaction was wish I hadn’t asked There speaks a non cyclist

 

[classic33]

Simon Howie the butcher is from the same village as me and was in the primary school giving a talk today. He put some pics up. Nice to see they have kept the old school dux boards. Yours truly in 1971



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Why did the names get larger in the second column, towards the end.

 

[PaulSB]

Good evening. I was up early and started the ironing and didn't notice the time. Just as I finished it was time to jump in the car to collect small person and of course she then fills the entire day! Today she has learned how to blow bubbles, the soapy ones we all used to have. She was very pleased. Bubbles has been her favourite word for some weeks. What else? Not much. My tomatoes have started to flower and the outside allotment is enjoying the rain. I repaired damaged patches in what we laughingly call the lawn a few weeks back, they've blended in very well.

I have to go comment in the Ride London thread and then do the U3A accounts. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!

 

[classic33]

Good evening. I was up early and started the ironing and didn't notice the time. Just as I finished it was time to jump in the car to collect small person and of course she then fills the entire day! Today she has learned how to blow bubbles, the soapy ones we all used to have. She was very pleased. Bubbles has been her favourite word for some weeks. What else? Not much. My tomatoes have started to flower and the outside allotment is enjoying the rain. I repaired damaged patches in what we laughingly call the lawn a few weeks back, they've blended in very well.

I have to go comment in the Ride London thread and then do the U3A accounts. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!

An early night!

 

[Mo1959]

Why did the names get larger in the second column, towards the end.

No idea. Maybe a different engraver?