The Retirement Thread

[pawl]

Yes, easy for me to get to plus doing it from there anti-clockwise means I can get some ok scrambling in on Little Stand and some mild scrambling on Bowfell en-route.

Another option is to start at the Woolpack Inn, do a complete loop taking in Harter Fell and thereby claim a free pint at the pub in return! Too long for me I think. Could've/should've done this when I was younger. Cest la vie.

The above shown route is a fair undertaking for someone approaching 67 and I will be more than happy with that.

Amusingly, during my hospital visits last year I was asked various fitness questions; including can I walk 10 metres in a straight line and climb a flight of stairs without getting out of breathe - what a low bar!

.Broad Stand on the way up Scafell would be nice this year but tbh grade 3/3S unroped scrambling no longer appeals to me and I have also promised Mrs SD that I will not be doing it anymore.

I know Broad Stand but don’t know Little Stand.Is it on Scafell?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I know Broad Stand but don’t know Little Stand.Is it on Scafell?

Little Stand is the small peak at the opposite end of Crinkle Crags to Bowfell.

There is some reasonable scrambling on it and it is immediately adjacent to Cockly Beck.

 

[pawl]

You must have been affluent! We did not get TV until 1958 (I was 11), from memory, it was a 12" screen, and cost 22guineas, which was probably about 4-5 weeks pay for my Dad, at the time, so, more like £2,500 now, and, still only one channel.

Edited to correct the year, I chopped 10 years off my age!, wishful thinking

I would not call my parents or my brother and sister who both had jobs affluent.Unless you can be working class affluent at the same time .

 

[pawl]

Little Stand is the small peak at the opposite end of Crinkle Crags to Bowfell.

There is some reasonable scrambling on it and it is immediately adjacent to Cockly Beck.

 

[pawl]

Thanks for that.

 

[numbnuts]

I don't think we had a telly until 1960 and it was rented

 

[welsh dragon]

I honestly don't remember a time when we didn't have a TV. I remember JFK being assassinated In 1963 and seeing it on the TV. I was 7 then.

 

[BoldonLad]

I would not call my parents or my brother and sister who both had jobs affluent.Unless you can be working class affluent at the same time .

It was a light-hearted comment, however, in 1953, at the time of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, I was 6, and, living in a street of approximately 100 houses, in a Council Housing Estate, there was one household with a TV, they allowed us children to watch their TV for the Coronation. In general, their children were never short of "friends", because, you may get to watch their TV, if you were a "friend".

As I say, my comment was light-hearted, not meant to make any kind of point, no offence intended.

 

[Paulus]

I honestly don't remember a time when we didn't have a TV. I remember JFK being assassinated In 1963 and seeing it on the TV. I was 7 then.

We didn't have a TV until around 1966/7. We had a radio and that's where my love of radio programmes comes from. I would much prefer to listen to the radio than watch the television.

 

[pawl]

It was a light-hearted comment, however, in 1953, at the time of the Coronation of Elizabeth II, I was 6, and, living in a street of approximately 100 houses, in a Council Housing Estate, there was one household with a TV, they allowed us children to watch their TV for the Coronation. In general, their children were never short of "friends", because, you may get to watch their TV, if you were a "friend".

As I say, my comment was light-hearted, not meant to make any kind of point, no offence intended.

Ok

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It was always on the side.

Sometimes it was on the top

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I honestly don't remember a time when we didn't have a TV. I remember JFK being assassinated In 1963 and seeing it on the TV. I was 7 then.

Was you born in '56 as well?

 

[Drago]

I have risen! 1st!

 

[welsh dragon]

Was you born in '56 as well?

I was.

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooooeeee. 9 deg and dry here.

Stay safe peeps