The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

The guy I was chatting to this morning had a drone with him on his walk. Drone and batteries all in a really neat small case. I was amazed how small and light it was but it has a range of a couple of miles and even if it loses contact with the controller, it automatically comes back to where it started from. Amazing bit of kit..........but no, as much as I like my gadgets I don't want one. Lol

 

[BoldonLad]

Surprised they don't use old scraps of material for wiping their bum and wash and reuse them!

I think you will find that has been mentioned (only joking, I hope)

 

[BoldonLad]

The guy I was chatting to this morning had a drone with him on his walk. Drone and batteries all in a really neat small case. I was amazed how small and light it was but it has a range of a couple of miles and even if it loses contact with the controller, it automatically comes back to where it started from. Amazing bit of kit..........but no, as much as I like my gadgets I don't want one. Lol

I look forward to the post telling us which make and model you buy

 

[Dave7]

Good grief. The Frugality thread is bloody depressing. If I had to do some of the things people on that thread do, it would be the end.

Educational though.
Reusable period products.
Peeing into a bog full of stale stinky pee

 

[classic33]

+1

You as well!

 

[BoldonLad]

Educational though.
Reusable period products.
Peeing into a bog full of stale stinky pee

Yes, I had fallen a bit behind on reading it. Just reached that part of the thread now. I had to leave for a while to take a few deep lungfuls of air.

 

[welsh dragon]

The guy I was chatting to this morning had a drone with him on his walk. Drone and batteries all in a really neat small case. I was amazed how small and light it was but it has a range of a couple of miles and even if it loses contact with the controller, it automatically comes back to where it started from. Amazing bit of kit..........but no, as much as I like my gadgets I don't want one. Lol

Go on. You know you want one really

 

[Mo1959]

Go on. You know you want one really

No.........but I have just ordered another pair of trainers.

 

[Mo1959]

I better go and get changed and brush my teeth before heading into Perth. Save me buying anything else!

 

[Dave7]

No.........but I have just ordered another pair of trainers.

Mo, how many pair have you got?
My son collects Nike trainers which he says are an investment.

 

[rustybolts]

Surprised they don't use old scraps of material for wiping their bum and wash and reuse them!

Before disposable nappies era !

 

[welsh dragon]

Gorgeous day here blue skies and sunshine 🌞.

Chilli and something today.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Before disposable nappies era !

I remember before disposable nappies and the smelly nappy bucket under the sink in the bathroom.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Had a pre-diabetes course this morning - 6the in the series - due to high levels of $somethingorother some time ago

The attendance has been dropping slowly after the original of about 14
anyway - got there today and the course leader was in the hotel waiting at reception
turns out no-one was around to tell us which room we were supposed to use - eventually found a cook who had a list and told us it was the one upstairs

So - up we went - but no-one else turned up - so we started
15 minutes later the manager comes up all apologetic - apparently the room had been changed and someone else had been sent to the new room and had been waiting!!!!

So we went downstairs
and - yup - it was 'that'person
the one that 'never gets it'

She seesm to have a thing where the course leader explain something and she can;t understand
but if I re-phrase it she is better


dunno if it is because I am a man or white or if I just explain it better for her

but it is damn hard work!!!!!

especially as she is an expert at heading of topic


anyway - cycled there and came back the scenic route (via 'The Dream' in St Helens if anyone knows it - it can be seen from the M62 and looks like a penis - although that is not, apparently, the concept!!!!)


so it can to about 15 miles over all!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Had a pre-diabetes course this morning - 6the in the series - due to high levels of $somethingorother some time ago

The attendance has been dropping slowly after the original of about 14
anyway - got there today and the course leader was in the hotel waiting at reception
turns out no-one was around to tell us which room we were supposed to use - eventually found a cook who had a list and told us it was the one upstairs

So - up we went - but no-one else turned up - so we started
15 minutes later the manager comes up all apologetic - apparently the room had been changed and someone else had been sent to the new room and had been waiting!!!!

So we went downstairs
and - yup - it was 'that'person
the one that 'never gets it'

She seesm to have a thing where the course leader explain something and she can;t understand
but if I re-phrase it she is better


dunno if it is because I am a man or white or if I just explain it better for her

but it is damn hard work!!!!!

especially as she is an expert at heading of topic


anyway - cycled there and came back the scenic route (via 'The Dream' in St Helens if anyone knows it - it can be seen from the M62 and looks like a penis - although that is not, apparently, the concept!!!!)


so it can to about 15 miles over all!

On a slightly related topic, I was walking up the hill to the start of our Tuesday organised walk. As I went through the pedestrian underpass to reach the trailway there were a few pieces of graffiti on the wall, one of which simply said “ Penis “. They’d even capitalised the initial letter. I felt quite reassured that our education system was doing such a splendid job. 😄