The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Know what you mean.
We have a very frugal Christmas. Don't buy anything that we wouldn't normally buy - it's just another day.
We have Egg and Chips for Christmas dinner and have done so for the past 25 years - no fuss.
The sheer profligacy of some folk astonishes me.

Pretty much the same here. We have good beef topside, grown in fields ½ mile away, but other than that the vegetables etc. are as usual. Yes, I've done the cabbage in a seasonal way, found a good sprout recipe but that's it.

The special bits would be an Iceland (!) Christmas pudding (£7), smoked salmon and some good cheese from Dewlays. The cheeses are an extravance but wonderful quality.

 

[Deleted User]

Depends really. I spent £27 so not a big shop!

But you were still there doing the same thing the people you're complaining about were doing?

Never mind.

 

[Dirk]

Get back to work you lazy buggers! I thought we were all an unwanted drain on society but hey, we have some value after all. 😁

BBC News - Workers over 50 encouraged to end early retirement
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802

You know what they can do with that.......it's two words; the first begins with F the second is Uckoff.

 

[Mo1959]

You know what they can do with that.......it's two words; the first begins with F the second is Uckoff.

Exactly. We are forgotten about when we need anything, but they‘re quite happy to entice us back into a shitty job to give them more taxes.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

You know what they can do with that.......it's two words; the first begins with F the second is Uckoff.

Quite right too - I'm 100% with you.

Us old buggers have done our bit.

Fed up with all the ageist bashing that we get - all the problems of the world are down to us oldies etc.

Grrrr!

 

[PaulSB]

I wonder how people who can hardly afford to buy any food feel when they see things like that happening, knowing that so much of the food being bought will go to waste.

This is a thought I have much of the time but, yes, more so at Christmas. Everything in our society is driven by consumption and growth, just turning on the telly leaves me feeling horribly aware of how divided the country is.

And it's getting tougher. Even in Aldi prices have risen dramatically, I think we're spending £10-12 more a week. Stopped using the local farm shop as they've priced themselves out.

☹️

 

[pawl]

You know what they can do with that.......it's two words; the first begins with F the second is Uckoff.

This might be political.News yesterday showed Sunak serving up meal’s apron on Bet he needed some one to tie it and how to use the serving utensils. poor bloke must have been knackered after ten minutes of that.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The DWP seem to be very efficient.

Just noticed that my first SP payment had hit the current a/c on Thursday - which was bang on time.

 

[welsh dragon]

The DWP seem to be very efficient.

Just noticed that my first SP payment had hit the current a/c on Thursday - which was bang on time.

They are very efficient with the pension

 

[PaulSB]

The DWP seem to be very efficient.

Just noticed that my first SP payment had hit the current a/c on Thursday - which was bang on time.

They are. It always arrives on time.

 

[classic33]

You know what they can do with that.......it's two words; the first begins with F the second is Uckoff.

You handing out sex and travel advice, again!!

 

[classic33]

Exactly. We are forgotten about when we need anything, but they‘re quite happy to entice us back into a shitty job to give them more taxes.

I've two of those listed on my CV.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Ages ago I had to take issue with a nice, but occasionally up themselves, younger member of our family network.

Permanently full of generational woes (we all were once in our life to be fair) a rant was made that castigated the older generation who had had everything and left them nothing.

Without labouring the point I explained that during the whole of the short 23 years of living that the society and infrastructure that had gotten them thus far had been paid for by those that had gone before in hard cash and lives given.

I just got a rolleyes response. Cest la vie.

 

[Dirk]

Apparently, 70s 'superstar actor' ,Robin Asquith, has been spotted in the village.
Must dash down to mob him.......not.

View: https://www.facebook.com/groups/northdevonnews/permalink/2313189402191768/

 

[BoldonLad]

Ages ago I had to take issue with a nice, but occasionally up themselves, younger member of our family network.

Permanently full of generational woes (we all were once in our life to be fair) a rant was made that castigated the older generation who had had everything and left them nothing.

Without labouring the point I explained that during the whole of the short 23 years of living that the society and infrastructure that had gotten them thus far had been paid for by those that had gone before in hard cash and lives given.

I just got a rolleyes response. Cest la vie.

Before speaking on this subject, I usually stop myself by thinking "oh dear, I am beginning to sound like my father"