The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Oh yes, I got some tortilla wrap thingies. Never tried a fajita type thing before.
My plan is to fry pepper, onion, sweet chilli and chicken strips. Piri piri sauce to go with it.
What think you ??

 

[Mo1959]

Oh yes, I got some tortilla wrap thingies. Never tried a fajita type thing before.
My plan is to fry pepper, onion, sweet chilli and chicken strips. Piri piri sauce to go with it.
What think you ??

Mmmm, sounds nice. Send some up here please!

 

[Dirk]

Off to Barnstaple to fill the car up.
Got to pick up a couple of bottles of Champagne on the way for tonight.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Yep, lavender is a bee magnet. I'm far from a bee expert but I believe "buzz" bees are solitary whereas the majority you will see on your lavender are honey bees.

Delighted to read you are planning more insect loving plants. A couple of observations; many modern plants are hybrids and therefore sterile, bugger all use to a bee. Try to find a range of plants which spread flowering through the season. Bumble bees love thistle flowers, there are many beautiful ornamental thistles, and I literally have seen 10-12 on a single flower and they will "camp out" overnight on the flowers in rain! The bee equivalent of crack coccaine!!

Modern bedding plants are almost all F1 hybrids and totally sterile, don't be fooled by bees flying in and out of them. Also be aware of "bee friendly" labels, I'm not convinced by these. A little research will go a long way.

Leaving a patch of grass to grow and flower all summer is both beautiful and will benefit a wide range of insects.

Sorry to bang on about this, I know I must be a touch boring on it, but this is such an important subject. The humble wasp is your friend. 🤣

Not at all boring Paul, you are preaching to the converted👍 I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction for the best place to obtain " proper " plants and what varieties. I recently celebrated a friends 50th Anniversary, he's a bee keeper and a member of a local bee welfare group, he was telling me about how they get calls from people who find bees starting a new nest in their gardens / outbuildings and they go and collect the nest and set them up in friendlier locations. He rarely takes the honey from the hives, only when there's an overabundance and he was critical of the use of sugar syrup by some beekeepers.🐝

 

[numbnuts]

Oh yes, I got some tortilla wrap thingies. Never tried a fajita type thing before.
My plan is to fry pepper, onion, sweet chilli and chicken strips. Piri piri sauce to go with it.
What think you ??

Never tried a fajita things, the nearest I got was bacon and egg in a pita bread

 

[Dave7]

Off to Barnstaple to fill the car up.
Got to pick up a couple of bottles of Champagne on the way for tonight.

We have a bottle here you can have.
Just one of those things that neither of us are fussed over.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have steady rain.

 

[Dave7]

@Mo1959

Mmmm, sounds nice. Send some up here please!

Mo......a question, if I may.
I seem to recall you saying that you don't have sky tv.
If I have that right, how do you watch the tdf ?

 

[Mo1959]

@Mo1959


Mo......a question, if I may.
I seem to recall you saying that you don't have sky tv.
If I have that right, how do you watch the tdf ?

I have the Sky dish but don't pay for any extra channels so still get all the usual channels including ITV4 where I watch it.

 

[Paulus]

Oh yes, I got some tortilla wrap thingies. Never tried a fajita type thing before.
My plan is to fry pepper, onion, sweet chilli and chicken strips. Piri piri sauce to go with it.
What think you ??

Sounds great.
MrsP and myself often do something very similar. We also put some grated cheese on the top.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have the Sky dish but don't pay for any extra channels so still get all the usual channels including ITV4 where I watch it.

Same here. I have a sky dish but no longer have Sky t.v.

We can't get ordinary T.V. here. There used to be a transmitter on a farmers land but he stopped maintaining it so the sky dish is essential.

 

[numbnuts]

I've got a Willow patten dish, but I only get food on it.


Done walking, it was hard work today
I'm 2nd in the old farts step challenge

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[gavroche]

Salut. I have a question for all grand parents here. We have a 9 year old grand son who is absolutely mad on football. His favourite team is Liverpool. when he comes over, all he wants to do is play football in the garden, with me, all day. Well, I can't play all day as it wears me out and to be honest, I am not that keen on football either.
At the moment, the TdF is handy as I can use that as an excuse to relax a bit but even when the ads are on, he wants to go out and play until the TdF starts again.
Frankly, I would rather see him in his own house as I don't have to play then.
So, fellow retirees, do you suffer this problem too, football or other sport ?

 

[welsh dragon]

I received an email from my favourite trainer manufacturers saying that the cost of trainers is Increasing from the 25th July due to the costs going up everywhere, so of course I had to buy a couple of pairs . I've had my eye on one particular pair for a while so I took the opportunity to get them at a reduced price and the other pair a different colour were reduced by £20 so of course I had to get them. They are bargain and I'm in fact saving money in a way

 

[welsh dragon]

Salut. I have a question for all grand parents here. We have a 9 year old grand son who is absolutely mad on football. His favourite team is Liverpool. when he comes over, all he wants to do is play football in the garden, with me, all day. Well, I can't play all day as it wears me out and to be honest, I am not that keen on football either.
At the moment, the TdF is handy as I can use that as an excuse to relax a bit but even when the ads are on, he wants to go out and play until the TdF starts again.
Frankly, I would rather see him in his own house as I don't have to play then.
So, fellow retirees, do you suffer this problem too, football or other sport ?

Hell no. All the cousins came here to play in the fields so we would just throw them all out and watch them running around like loons up and down the field. Sorted