The Retirement Thread
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Scaleyback
Veteran
- Location
- North Yorkshire
With Nadine Dorries a powerful voice, madness is 'de rigueur'
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Deleted member 1258
Guest
Carer's not arrived, I've had to sort her out myself.
Carer finally turned up at a quarter past three, almost eight hours late, all she needed to do was sign the book to say she'd been.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Good morning on a bright and sunny California morning. How are we all? No disasters I hope? I was passing so thought I'd pop in for a brew.
Excellent trip so far. The wedding hit just the right note. The couple's best friend married them. Apparently anyone can register to carry out a marriage service and provided paperwork is filed it's legal. A very lovely way to conduct a marriage. We're based in Sacramento and making short 2-4 day trips; Oakland, Cambria, Morro Bay and Santa Cruz to date. Yosemite tomorrow for four days and then three days next week at Lake Tahoe and then Napa Valley.
Seen Hearst Castle, somewhat bizarre, sea otters, very cute, whales for the first time, very emotional, Monarch butterflies, beautiful and coastal redwoods for the second time, simply overwhelming, astonishing beauty.
Great trip but doubt we will come back. For all the beauty, fun and excitement so far the cities are awful. Stayed in a good Airbnb in Oakland in a nice district surrounded by vast areas abandoned by those with money leaving only the very poor and/or homeless, there are tens of thousands of homeless people. The urban sprawl from south of San Jose to Solano is nothing but concrete and tarmac. I worry about home, this is one of the richest nations on Earth and it has enormous problems. Parts of inner cities are a dystopian future except it's today.
Damned expensive place to live. £1 for an onion, £8 for a pint of IPA.
Excellent trip so far. The wedding hit just the right note. The couple's best friend married them. Apparently anyone can register to carry out a marriage service and provided paperwork is filed it's legal. A very lovely way to conduct a marriage. We're based in Sacramento and making short 2-4 day trips; Oakland, Cambria, Morro Bay and Santa Cruz to date. Yosemite tomorrow for four days and then three days next week at Lake Tahoe and then Napa Valley.
Seen Hearst Castle, somewhat bizarre, sea otters, very cute, whales for the first time, very emotional, Monarch butterflies, beautiful and coastal redwoods for the second time, simply overwhelming, astonishing beauty.
Great trip but doubt we will come back. For all the beauty, fun and excitement so far the cities are awful. Stayed in a good Airbnb in Oakland in a nice district surrounded by vast areas abandoned by those with money leaving only the very poor and/or homeless, there are tens of thousands of homeless people. The urban sprawl from south of San Jose to Solano is nothing but concrete and tarmac. I worry about home, this is one of the richest nations on Earth and it has enormous problems. Parts of inner cities are a dystopian future except it's today.
Damned expensive place to live. £1 for an onion, £8 for a pint of IPA.
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Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Nice stroll along the riverside trail. Chummed a lady I know with her collie, then met the ghillie that used to run the fishing beat a few years ago who had come for a visit so we had a nice catch up with him.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
America has a huge problem with homeless people. Even people who are working can't afford to pay the rent and are living in their cars. It's dreadful. And as they say, what happens in America usually ends up happening here as well.
classic33
Leg End Member
classic33
Leg End Member
Hope you made a note of the time in the book, before they signed it.Carer finally turned up at a quarter past three, almost eight hours late, all she needed to do was sign the book to say she'd been.
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
No, this is just the start of chapter 3
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Carer finally turned up at a quarter past three, almost eight hours late, all she needed to do was sign the book to say she'd been.
Hope they don’t charge charge you for that visit.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Carer finally turned up at a quarter past three, almost eight hours late, all she needed to do was sign the book to say she'd been.
Disgraceful.
Not necessarily the fault of the carer of course, but, totally unacceptable for your wife.
Daughter No4 is a carer, not very well paid, and, she is always up for an extra shift. Unfortunately, she doesn't drive, and it is not in the least uncommon for me to get a.morning phone call, asking if I can give her a lift to some far flung shift (which she cannot get to quickly on public transport), where the regular carer has failed to turn up. The employing Company appear to have no "built in plans" to cover such eventualities, which, appear to me, to be not in the least uncommon.
D
Deleted member 1258
Guest
We don't pay for the carer, our pensions aren't high enough, if we did I'd be having words about today and the other days they've been late.
D
Deleted member 1258
Guest
The system is broken, they don't pay the carers enough and there are not enough carers.
I purchased a few energy monitoring / remote switching plugs a few months ago so I could keep track of what’s using what electricity. It’s been interesting, our Brother colour laser goes into “ deep sleep “ after a short while and then consumes 0.3W per hour. MacBook uses a little over a Kw in a Month. We don’t have the TV on much nor watch daytime television but I’ve scheduled the plug to switch it off completely from 10:00 pm until 6:00 pm. Out of interest I checked our Panasonic bread machine, that took 250 watts in total over the four hour program, during the “ bake” part of the cycle the heating element was constantly cycling on and off to maintain the required temperature. Quite a useful exercise.
classic33
Leg End Member
How much do the monitoring plugs use?
