The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Can't take it with you WD.

Very true.👍

 

[welsh dragon]

Can't take it with you WD.

What's that saying? There's no pockets in a shroud?

 

[PaulSB]

What is it with all this talk about cycling, I only come here for a gossip and to catch up on the latest grumblings and mishaps 😉
I watched the opening day of the Tour live on ITV4, only because we have friends who are in Copenhagen watching, and we thought we might spot them with their Welsh flag. The coverage was OK, the adverts though were dire! Online Bingo, lots of Charity appeals, Funeral plans, cremation plans, more bloody Bingo!
Watching the evening highlights suits us better, and the ads are the usual cars, food, supermarkets, banks etc.
Just back from a run. I was bimbling along minding my own business when I met another runner who I knew. Not wishing to appear past it, I tried to match his pace for a while. I'm knackered now and need to go for a lie down 😁

Clearly they have the cycling demographic taped!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We have a house full of family.

 

[pawl]

I very rarely get to watch any of the TdF. It clashes with Wimbledon and the telly is permanently tuned to BBC from lunch till play stops. If Mrs P isn't watching at the time it will be on live pause!! I don't get to watch the TdF highlights as I've usually gone to bed before the tennis finishes! Come the morning I can't be arsed with yesterday's highlights

When I used to watch the TdF I enjoyed it all because much of the time my pleasure came from watching the surroundings, countryside and so on.

Your last paragraph sounds like me.

Doubt if I will watch much.There other things I can be doing rather than sitting watching four or five hours of racing for three weeks How ever I do enjoy the one day races I know many will not agree .My favourite grand tour is the Tour Of Spain

 

[pawl]

Housework is done. I have had a shower as well. And I have a load of washing in the machine .

A man is coming round this evening to look at a tree that needs to be felled. Mr WD doesn't want to do it as it's quite close to the power lines so we are happy for someone else to do it.

That's more money I need to spend

Shocking.

 

[pawl]

Can't take it with you WD.

Then I for one I’m not blooming going .

 

[pawl]

Just dug up a root of potatoes for dinner surprised how dry the ground is three or four inches below the surface.

 

[pawl]

Where's @numbnuts?
Have the TV licencing people taken him away for not having a TV?

They might be making him watch Big Brother, I'm a celebrity and other "top notch productions" to show him what he's been missing.

Haven’t you watched both programs He’s staring in both

 

[classic33]

Haven’t you watched both programs He’s staring in both

Never watched either, in any incarnation. I switch off or over the minute they're mentioned.

 

[Dave7]

BTW....Wordle.
MrsD got it in 4.
I got it in 5
She is far better at word games than me.

 

[pawl]

Never watched either, in any incarnation. I switch off or over the minute they're mentioned.

Nor me .

 

[PaulSB]

Wimbledon is on. I offered Mrs P strawberries and cream with a Pimms on the side. She commented negatively on this and requested a G&T.

Managed to watch some real(?) telly last night. Mrs P switched over after the tennis to Alien: Covenant. Now it's 43 years since I saw the original......I still find it hard to cope with that creature exploding out of people's stomachs. I went to bed.

 

[Mo1959]

Wimbledon is on. I offered Mrs P strawberries and cream with a Pimms on the side. She commented negatively on this and requested a G&T.

Managed to watch some real(?) telly last night. Mrs P switched over after the tennis to Alien: Covenant. Now it's 43 years since I saw the original......I still find it hard to cope with that creature exploding out of people's stomachs. I went to bed.

Cameron Norrie is playing well. Sadly Heather Watson was totally outclassed today.

 

[PaulSB]

Cameron Norrie is playing well. Sadly Heather Watson was totally outclassed today.

Yep, I've had half an eye on the game while playing online Canasta and enjoying my G&T.

The new great British hope. 😉