The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Hazel tree pruned.
Had a trip to the tip to dump a load of garden rubbish.
Dropped into the CoOp on the way back.
Sat down now with a cuppa and catching up on YouTube.

Serious question....what do you look at/catch up with on you tube ? It's another thing I have never 'done'.

 

[Paulus]

I’ll be rushing to book this……not!


https://gleneagles.com/the-gleneagl...Nod8I2i4bRihPC9JNP2id-MjL12hBZXGLT8Pj5HAb29Sk

Sound a wonderful few days,




but not at that price.

 

[Mo1959]

Serious question....what do you look at/catch up with on you tube ? It's another thing I have never 'done'.

Almost anything. I learned a lot about my Wattbike and Zwift before I even got it by watching reviews.

Even something like a DIY job in the house there’s usually somebody made a video of how to do it.

 

[welsh dragon]

Pizza for us today.

I'm thinking of changing broadband providers. With EE I'm paying £40 a month and any calls I make cost more. That's a lot just for broadband.

 

[welsh dragon]

I’ll be rushing to book this……not!


https://gleneagles.com/the-gleneagl...Nod8I2i4bRihPC9JNP2id-MjL12hBZXGLT8Pj5HAb29Sk

Oh boy

 

[welsh dragon]

Serious question....what do you look at/catch up with on you tube ? It's another thing I have never 'done'.

YouTube is the go to place for just about everything. I use it all the time.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I’ll be rushing to book this……not!


https://gleneagles.com/the-gleneagl...Nod8I2i4bRihPC9JNP2id-MjL12hBZXGLT8Pj5HAb29Sk

HOW MUCH!!!!!!!

I think my wife would have thoughts

and anyway - the second day looks a bit much for an old far bloke on an ebike!!

 

[Dirk]

Serious question....what do you look at/catch up with on you tube ? It's another thing I have never 'done'.

Pretty much everything.
There's numerous channels I subscribe to ( free).
Lots of films, old TV programmes, news and philosophy stuff, lots of vlogs, cycling and bike racing etc.
You'd be surprised at where a YouTube rabbit trail takes you.

 

[Mo1959]

Took the car to give it a run and went to Comrie 6 miles away and had a walk there for a change. Nice little loop someone told me about. About 3.7 miles on a mix of very quiet road and well surfaced track. It would make a nice little running loop too. There's a fork in the trail at one point. Us minions go to the left, but if you take a right there's an absolutely massive big white house. Don't know who it belongs to but they must be millionaires going by the size of it. Wouldn't surprise me if it was Arabs. They seem to buy up all these type of properties.

 

[BoldonLad]

Pizza for us today.

I'm thinking of changing broadband providers. With EE I'm paying £40 a month and any calls I make cost more. That's a lot just for broadband.

I would guess that with a bit of haggling you will be able to almost halve that!

Depends what your available options. are of course, given that you don't exactly live in an urban conurbation.

 

[Tenkaykev]

A few people

I would guess that with a bit of haggling you will be able to almost halve that!

Depends what your available options. are of course, given that you don't exactly live in an urban conurbation.

A few people I know don't have a landline. They have a mobile phone with data plan and use their mobile as a wireless " hot spot " to connect to the internet. Just checked Lebara ( Vodafone) and you can get unlimited data / texts / phone calls for £22.50 on a rolling 30 day contract.

 

[Mo1959]

I wasn't far wrong but wrong nationality. Last known purchaser a Russian tycoon.


Aberuchill_Castle

 

[Tenkaykev]

With regard to T'internet. My saga with my Fibre to the premises install process got me a free month, but I am still subscribed to my original provider ( Zen Internet ) This is because Mrs Tkk has to submit her dissertation electronically by 11th January, so I'm keeping both contracts running concurrently until her work is submitted and receipt acknowledged. Paranoid, me? Yes. It's worth the extra £25 for the extra peace of mind.

 

[BoldonLad]

A few people

A few people I know don't have a landline. They have a mobile phone with data plan and use their mobile as a wireless " hot spot " to connect to the internet. Just checked Lebara ( Vodafone) and you can get unlimited data / texts / phone calls for £22.50 on a rolling 30 day contract.

Indeed. I do more or less exactly that in my motorhome (but, using a router with SIM instead of a hotspot). I currently pay £14/month for that with "3", deals vary and come along all of the time. Only issue is speed, unless you can get 5g, then, it is unlikely to match landline broadband, and of course, fibre is even faster.

Rather like Car Insurance, the answer to lower bills is:

Be willing to switch

Haggle

 

[Tenkaykev]

The house on the corner has had fencing installed and now resembles a stockade of the sort seen in Westerns. I've taken to calling it the " Ponderosa "