The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Well......had a good viewing of the doer upper but we've decided to give it a miss.
I was prepared to spend 50k - 60k refurbishing the interior and altering the layout, rewiring, re plumbing, new kitchen, new bathrooms, re plastering etc.
However I was not prepared for the major damp problem which will necessitate replacing all the floor joists and ceilings. The roof had a major sagging problem as well and would need stripping and rectifying.
I could see the place being a money pit and easily consuming 100k. At the end of the day it would be hard to justify, considering what the market value would be when done.
Still, it was good to have a look.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A few months ago a leaf dropped of my money plant, I left it in the compost and a few weeks later I noticed growth from it, I've been watching the new plant growing over the last few weeks and today I transferred it to its own pot, hopefully it will grow from there and I'll have another money plant.

 

[pawl]

We have rain in Poole 🌧🌧
First for several weeks. Coupled with today being black bin day, veg box day and walking group day, my cup overfloweth 😀

So will your water butt

 

[pawl]

Morning all . So glad it’s a bit cooler today also so glad to be back on the haven of niceness in the online forum world ( don’t ask, I had spat with someone on a sailing forum yesterday lol )
You lot don’t know how lucky you are as you only see the nice ( ish) side of me in the thread 😂😂😂😂.
Anyway folks have a great day and try and stay dry 😀

Drill a few drainage holes in the hull of his boat.Go on you know you want to Or splice his main brace whatever that mean’s

 

[pawl]

Getting back to Marriage, I have only watched the first two episodes and I am finding it very slow and ponderous.
Strange musical theme, if music it is, and Sean Bean seems to be acting under the influence of Mogadon.

I’ve not watched Marriage yet I trust you lot so I’ll not bother

 

[BoldonLad]

I don't have a boiler either. I have a wood burner that heats my whole house. Nothing to go wrong with it and in the winter I can cook baked potatoes in it as well so it's a win win for me.

Houseworky stuff done ✔️

I am attempting to service and fix my sewing machine. It's at least 50 years old so it's all mechanical. I am waiting for Mr WD to find me the right size screw drivers, and de greaser and with YouTube and a bit of luck I will be able to fix it. If not then it's a case of Mr WDDDDD, "fix my machine" and "it wasn't my fault".

You are a woman, how could it possibly be your fault?

 

[pawl]

Well......had a good viewing of the doer upper but we've decided to give it a miss.
I was prepared to spend 50k - 60k refurbishing the interior and altering the layout, rewiring, re plumbing, new kitchen, new bathrooms, re plastering etc.
However I was not prepared for the major damp problem which will necessitate replacing all the floor joists and ceilings. The roof had a major sagging problem as well and would need stripping and rectifying.
I could see the place being a money pit and easily consuming 100k. At the end of the day it would be hard to justify, considering what the market value would be when done.
Still, it was good to have a look.

Buy it and flog it to that lot on Homes Under the Hammer

 

[PaulSB]

The rain stayed away just long enough for my drying to dry. Mrs P and small person were out for quite a while so I got all of upstairs, the stairs and the downstairs bathroom proper clean. Excellent. Downstairs will have to wait till Thursday.

Perfect cycling weather forecast for tomorrow so we are heading down to Cheshire. That'll be +/- 90 for me. Cafe stop is at Service Course, I have never been before. From what I gather it's a ridiculously expensive cafe/shop where people with extraordinarily expensive bikes hang out. The menu suggests if I'm going to stay inside my £5 cafe budget I'll be having a single shot espresso and toast.

I shall do my best to look cool

Service Course

 

[pawl]

A few months ago a leaf dropped of my money plant, I left it in the compost and a few weeks later I noticed growth from it, I've been watching the new plant growing over the last few weeks and today I transferred it to its own pot, hopefully it will grow from there and I'll have another money plant.

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I wasn’t going to comment but I will Money doesn’t grow in trees..

By the way the two posts from your Face Book page had us laughing that much we nearly choked on our Weetabix

 

[Mo1959]

A few months ago a leaf dropped of my money plant, I left it in the compost and a few weeks later I noticed growth from it, I've been watching the new plant growing over the last few weeks and today I transferred it to its own pot, hopefully it will grow from there and I'll have another money plant.

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Maybe you should offer them to the government. They could do with a magic money tree.

Another 6.5 mile walk done. Quite warm again but I suspect it’s just me. I seem to struggle with the heat more now for some reason. Tomorrow morning is looking nice and cool first thing so I’m hoping to enjoy it if I’m up early.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The rain stayed away just long enough for my drying to dry. Mrs P and small person were out for quite a while so I got all of upstairs, the stairs and the downstairs bathroom proper clean. Excellent. Downstairs will have to wait till Thursday.

Perfect cycling weather forecast for tomorrow so we are heading down to Cheshire. That'll be +/- 90 for me. Cafe stop is at Service Course, I have never been before. From what I gather it's a ridiculously expensive cafe/shop where people with extraordinarily expensive bikes hang out. The menu suggests if I'm going to stay inside my £5 cafe budget I'll be having a single shot espresso and toast.

I shall do my best to look cool

Service Course

I've no chance of looking cool with my 7 year old Eastway complete with mudguards, and I don't care either.

 

[pawl]

Mrs p has just rung me from Coalville which is about ten miles from Desford for to say it’s been pouring down for the last hour, Not a drop here.The sun continues to shine on the righteous

 

[welsh dragon]

Why is it so dam difficult to now send items back to Amazon when they don't work. You used to be able to contact seller. Give reason for return. Print off label. Stick it to the box. Take it to the post office. The end.

Now it's such a parlarver just to send it back. Print of label. Decide if Evri or the PO are going to pick it up or if you are going to take it to an Evri shop (we dont have one). Stick labels all over the dam 📦. And of course we will now have to wait until the post office decide to pick it up tomorrow allegedly. Good god almighty. Save me from this madness.

And of course we had to contact seller to tell them what we wanted. I now need to lie down on a dark room

 

[Exlaser2]

Drill a few drainage holes in the hull of his boat.Go on you know you want to Or splice his main brace whatever that mean’s

It’s fine , it’s not the first time I’ve had a run in with him over the last decade and probably will not be the last.
He is one of those that KNOWS he is always right , doesn’t really care about anything that’s being discussed and if he is on the losing side of a discussion, he then starts on the personal attacks . We have some on this forum but this forum is so large it easy to stay away from those threads.
The dinghy one is so small there are probably more regular posters on this thread than there are on the whole dinghy forum. So there is no getting away from him.
This is a much better behaved place 😀😀

 

[Paulus]

Why is it so dam difficult to now send items back to Amazon when they don't work. You used to be able to contact seller. Give reason for return. Print off label. Stick it to the box. Take it to the post office. The end.

Now it's such a parlarver just to send it back. Print of label. Decide if Evri or the PO are going to pick it up or if you are going to take it to an Evri shop (we dont have one). Stick labels all over the dam 📦. And of course we will now have to wait until the post office decide to pick it up tomorrow allegedly. Good god almighty. Save me from this madness.

And of course we had to contact seller to tell them what we wanted. I now need to lie down on a dark room

A bit late to be sending the sewing machine back