The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning, haven't opened the curtains yet so don't know what the weather is doing. Grandson's 14th birthday today, we're all going for a meal at lunchtime.

 

[Dave7]

What??? Nearly 0700 and no one up?
I was up at 0600 which is too early but I can live with it.
Just cogitating (is that legal) but not sure what the day holds out..
I will report back
Edit
I see Kev has sneaked in while I typed.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. The rain has finally gone off. Not sure where to go for a walk as most of the trails are so wet and mucky now. Might just do a road walk.

 

[Drago]

In have risen!

Still feel rough, but at least I slept fairly well.

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeeee. The rain and wind has finally stopped here as well.

Stay safe peeps

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay.......Fish Friday!
Shopping and lunching today.
It's MrsD's turn to drive today, so not sure where we'll end up.
Weather's calmed down here now. It's just still and dull.
I'll take that over 70 mph wind and heavy rain anyway.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
A breezy start to the day here in Barnet.
A few errands to run and a few bits of shopping to get from the local shops, and then a few members of the escape committee are meeting in the Railway Bell this afternoon. MrsP is meeting some of her friends for lunch, so I have a few hours to myself today.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Right

was up at 8 ish - just before
Grand Kids arrived at about 8:30
They found the presents from their Uncle and family and wanted to open them

ANyway - in my opinions - anyone who makes toys for children should be made to open them with an excited 3 year old and several other children running around and they must be able to work out how to open it - without destroying any instructions - and get it working

any in the course of all that
a) no kids must ever get hold of any scissors or knives (etc)
b) not kids must die - or need an A&E department

whoever desihned the packaging for the dinosaur transporter wouldn NOT have passed the test!

anyway - started with 3 and there are still 3 here
there is a decent possibility that they are the same ones
I think

anyway - time to see if they survive the park!


Oh - and we have given in to peer pressure
(i.e. Dave7 and the sister-in-law - and an air-fryer is being delivered today!

 

[classic33]

Right

was up at 8 ish - just before
Grand Kids arrived at about 8:30
They found the presents from their Uncle and family and wanted to open them

ANyway - in my opinions - anyone who makes toys for children should be made to open them with an excited 3 year old and several other children running around and they must be able to work out how to open it - without destroying any instructions - and get it working

any in the course of all that
a) no kids must ever get hold of any scissors or knives (etc)
b) not kids must die - or need an A&E department

whoever desihned the packaging for the dinosaur transporter wouldn NOT have passed the test!

anyway - started with 3 and there are still 3 here
there is a decent possibility that they are the same ones
I think

anyway - time to see if they survive the park!


Oh - and we have given in to peer pressure
(i.e. Dave7 and the sister-in-law - and an air-fryer is being delivered today!

Are they all still in the same number of pieces as when they arrived though?
No extra parts lying around doing nothing.

 

[welsh dragon]

looks like we could be in for more rain.

I have been pottering and Mr WD has gone for a walk.

We have leftover braised beef, so it's in the slow cooker heating up and we will have sandwiches today.

 

[Dave7]

looks like we could be in for more rain.

I have been pottering and Mr WD has gone for a walk.

We have leftover braised beef, so it's in the slow cooker heating up and we will have sandwiches today.

I might do a Dirk and have fish butties. I have breaded cod and I also have some fish fingers.....decisions decisions

 

[numbnuts]

Morning, managed to walk up to the village to get milk and bananas, it was hard going, but at least I made it
Going to try not to take any pain killers today if I can help it.

 

[Mo1959]

A few skip runs done, mostly with cardboard. It was absolutely mobbed down there, and the big cardboard containers were rammed with all the cardboard boxes obviously mostly from Christmas presents.

Not sure what's for lunch. Maybe a fried egg sarnie I think.

 

[welsh dragon]

It's raining. Mr WD is going to get wet.

 

[Dave7]

Just been for a (very) short stroll. Only got about 200 yards and it started raining so I turned back. Good decision as it heavy now AND it's gone really cold.
Edit
It's lashing down now and very windy. Yep, turning back was definitely a good decision.