The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning folks,
Just back from a heavy legged and sweaty 5K around Pocket Park. Mrs Tenkaykev is taking her Brommie " Jennifer " to her walk leaders meeting at Upton House. She usually cycles down on her Roberts touring bike, it's a bit of a beast with racks, dynamo front wheel and Rohloff hub, with her Brommie she can fold it and take it in to the meeting room.
We've just seen a cyclist go by wearing a lightweight camouflage jacket and a hat with feathers, probably heading up to Wimborne as the Folk festival starts today and there's usually a display by the Wimborne Militia.
We'll be heading up later via the beer festival 🍻👍
Have a peaceful day folks☕

 

[Exlaser2]

But... the night (night) is yet young!

It might have been for you but it was definitely not for me 😂😂😂😀.
I worked shift work for over 30 years and for 20 years I worked early and late shift week about . This means on lates I would be going to bed at 4 in morning and the next week on earlies I would be getting up at 4 in the morning . So I know a little about the stress working irregular hour puts on your body .
So these days it’s just a pleasure to go to bed about midnight and get up about 8am regularly.😀😀

Good morning all .

 

[postman]

Postman is having a gardening diy free day today.It's a lunchtime couple of pints in Headingley,not my normal routine and I am looking forward to it..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

This came up on my Facebook page this morning, from a 103 years ago.

This 103 years old comic about what would happen if "pocket telephones" would be invented.

W. K. Haselden’s ‘The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’ was first published in The Mirror on March 1919 (Courtesy, Historic Photographs)

 

[Dave7]

It might have been for you but it was definitely not for me 😂😂😂😀.
I worked shift work for over 30 years and for 20 years I worked early and late shift week about . This means on lates I would be going to bed at 4 in morning and the next week on earlies I would be getting up at 4 in the morning . So I know a little about the stress working irregular hour puts on your body .
So these days it’s just a pleasure to go to bed about midnight and get up about 8am regularly.😀😀

Good morning all .

In my 20s I had a good job in a metal perforating factory. They asked us to sign a form agreeing to night shifts IF NEEDED. I stupidly agreed and a couple of weeks later was told they NEED me on permanent 12 hour nights**. Good money but I hated nights and had to leave.
** started at 1900 Hrs. Finished 0700. Got home, ate, went to bed, got up and went to work.........after all these years I still remember it.

 

[Dave7]

Went back to bed at 0700. Slept very heavy and am slowly coming round.
Sat outside now. Lovely cool breeze but its getting a tad too cool.

 

[numbnuts]

I was on permanent nights for ages, but we only worked 10 hour shifts and a four night week, happy days nights I loved it

 

[Mo1959]

I was on permanent nights for ages, but we only worked 10 hour shifts and a four night week, happy days nights I loved it

I actually put in for permanent nights. We did 74 hours over 7 nights but then got 7 off, plus if you had a week's leave, you were effectively off for 3 weeks. Great for time off, but maybe not so good for the body. Glad I'm not doing it now with my noisy neighbours as I would never get a sleep during the day. The ones at the time were quite good and rarely heard them thankfully.

 

[Paulus]

I worked shifts all my working life, 44 years. But not regular times. It all depended on what train/duty you were on.
Early turns booked on any time after midnight until midday. After 1200pm, untill 2200pm were late turns, from 2200 until 2359 were nights.
You normally did a week of earlies, normally the same duty all week. Then onto a week of lates.
Then back onto earlies . But one week you could be booking on at 0240, then on lates at 1650, the next week of earlies could be 0800, and so on. Nights came around every couple of months for parcels and freight work, that's before privatisation though. After it was for stock moves and test runs.
Some peoples bodyclock was all over the place, mine was alright as I can sleep anywhere anytime and had no problem adjusting.

 

[Dirk]

More fresh strawberries out of my garden this morning. Only got 3 plants on the go, but they are very productive.

 

[Mo1959]

I like apples but always seem to get a bit of skin stuck between my teeth. It's annoying.

 

[Mo1959]

More fresh strawberries out of my garden this morning. Only got 3 plants on the go, but they are very productive.

We have local Scottish ones in the supermarket now. They are delicious, but expensive like everything else now.

 

[Mo1959]

All the talk of strawberries........I ended up wandering round to the Co-op and got some, plus bananas, tomatoes, cucumber, bread, porridge, couple of ready meals (fish pie), Ryvita, diluting juice. Think that was it.

 

[numbnuts]

My knee felt alright this morning so went for a short walk just 3 miles

 

[Tenkaykev]

All the talk of strawberries........I ended up wandering round to the Co-op and got some, plus bananas, tomatoes, cucumber, bread, porridge, couple of ready meals (fish pie), Ryvita, diluting juice. Think that was it.

I used to do a bit of Saturday morning maintenance at the Ryvita factory in Poole. Back then they had a subsidised canteen and you could buy assorted packs of the various varieties where the packaging was skewiff.