The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Morning chaps. Horrible nights sleep but managed to fall asleep in the end for a couple of hours. . Not as cold today here.

 

[Dirk]

We lived in Sparkbrook for six months or so from September 1980. I think it was Stoney Lane. We were married in English Martyrs R C.

Got out to Harborne shortly afterwards.

I remember the English Tomatyrs school in Sparkbrook.
I went to Dennis Road Junior & Infants school from 1958 to 1962, just off Stoney Lane. We moved to Hall Green when I was 7. The rest of my school life was split between Hall Green Juniors and Moseley Grammar. I left Brum in 1977......never to return.

 

[172traindriver]

Morning chaps. Horrible nights sleep but managed to fall asleep in the end for a couple of hours. . Not as cold today here.

Tomorrow is looking unsettled

 

[Paulus]

Ernie Prize Checker Day today,

£100 quid for me (will fill the car up with diesel, just!!)
£75 for Mrs. Slow.

Last draw of 2018 and total winnings for the year have paid far more than if we had put the money in a fixed term account at the bank. Obviously I realise we could have won nowt but been a good year, no big prizes but lots of small amounts which add up.

£25 for me this month. Was hoping for a couple of extra noughts, but it is a few pints care of ERNIE
This year I have had a couple of hundred out of the system so no complaints from me. Better return than most
bank/building society accounts.

 

[welsh dragon]

£25 for me this month. Was hoping for a couple of extra noughts, but it is a few pints care of ERNIE
This year I have had a couple of hundred out of the system so no complaints from me. Better return than most
bank/building society accounts.

Do you mind if i ask on average how many times a year you have won something?

 

[derrick]

We win every day we wake up, you only lose if you don't wake up.

 

[welsh dragon]

We win every day we wake up, you only lose if you don't wake up.

Touche.

 

[Dirk]

Do you mind if i ask on average how many times a year you have won something?

Gonna cash mine in and buy new ones.
Got the maximum allowance but have only had £25 this year.
Maybe some fresh numbers might work.

 

[welsh dragon]

Gonna cash mine in and buy new ones.
Got the maximum allowance but have only had £25 this year.
Maybe some fresh numbers might work.

You can do it all online can't you?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Rain stopped play, I'm in Oaks Farm Shop Balsall Common with a batch and a coffee. I'm on my way back when I've finished here.

 

[welsh dragon]

Rain stopped play, I'm in Oaks Farm Shop Balsall Common with a batch and a coffee. I'm on way back when I've finished here.

Well done for getting out there.

 

[Dirk]

You can do it all online can't you?

Yes, it's simple enough.

 

[Paulus]

Do you mind if i ask on average how many times a year you have won something?

This year it has been on average every other month, but the last three months I have won £25 each time and in September two of my bonds came in with £25 each.

 

[numbnuts]

Do you mind if i ask on average how many times a year you have won something?

I was give a premium bond when I was born 67 years ago .............it has never come up

 

[GM]

Ernie Prize Checker Day today,

£100 quid for me (will fill the car up with diesel, just!!)
£75 for Mrs. Slow.

Last draw of 2018 and total winnings for the year have paid far more than if we had put the money in a fixed term account at the bank. Obviously I realise we could have won nowt but been a good year, no big prizes but lots of small amounts which add up.

Same for us, £150 this month. Got a return of 1.8% this year.

£25 for me this month. Was hoping for a couple of extra noughts, but it is a few pints care of ERNIE
This year I have had a couple of hundred out of the system so no complaints from me. Better return than most
bank/building society accounts.

In 1973 I bought 100 quids worth of PB's, I've not had a single penny back in winnings. I might be just unlucky, or the big one is not far away!