jongooligan
Legendary Member
- Location
- Behind bars
Not really. Both effectively retired but can't find time when we're not already doing something else.
The Retirement Thread
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Not really. Both effectively retired but can't find time when we're not already doing something else.
classic33
Leg End Member
Shop assistant!I worked up until I was 68, 16 months ago. Somedays I used to love my job, other days not so. So I made a deal, when the hate it days out numbered the love it days that would be quit time.
I've got a long bucket list of things I would like to do, so when I've done them all I might think about getting a part time job...any jobs going for a 90 year old
In other news, I've just got back from a great ride with the nice Sunday London Ride people.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Nothing planned this year. I'm booked to go home to watch Up Helly Aa next year, so itll be a winter break for 2020. Mrs D wants to see the Northern lights so I'll probably book Bardufoss or somewhere suitably north.
jongooligan
Legendary Member
- Location
- Behind bars
Mrs. jg also wants to see the aurora. I get alerts from here https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/alerts/ The plan is that when she's also retired we can just nick off up the Northumberland coast at the drop of a hat and spend the night on the beach watching the lights.
Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
When I was a kid in Shetland I'd see them 3 or 4 times a month in clear weather (clear weather itself being a rarity on the island), so I'm a bit blase, but Mrs D has never seen them at all.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
How could there be a possibility of a mistake over whether or not your father died of MND or not?
Genuine question as I just don't see how that is possible - I know a good deal about MND as I was misdiagnosed (thankfully) with this hideous disease a couple of years back.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Long story short he started getting forgetful and sometime violent if told he was wrong, he was sent to the hospital neurological ward after few days they did some tests were they pumped air into the brain this was 1978 and X-rayed, he was never right after that and ended up in Park Prewett Hospital a psychiatric hospital. He went down hill fast after that and died, they did a PM and said it was MND, my mother being a nurse questioned it and later so did my sister and I, but still got the same answer, to this day we still don't know.
Many years later and seeing the life of Stephen Hawking we now know he was not like that, what ever it was only took 4 to 6 years. To be honest I think it was a brain tumour.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Dr Alice is on TV at 2000hrs. A programme about her giant mammoths.
Woolly ones, that is.
Woolly ones, that is.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Thanks Welshie. Any opportunity to ogle Dr Alice is snapped up.
Erh uhm ahh.
Confession time.
In a bar last year I ordered a pint of Adnams** and liked the glass so asked if I could buy one.
The barman asked his boss who brought me that one foc..
**But..... it was a pint of bitter I ordered.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Just stepping outside of the general retirement frivolities of pint quaffing and fodder scoffing for a moment... do any of you ever step back and wonder about what your life's purpose is in retirement?
I retired at age 48, got bored and started a small lifestyle business which I enjoy but of late I am thinking of quitting all over again at age 62. But... I have found myself cogitating on what is the point of Spokey in full retirement mode?
Apologies for being so earnest on a lght-hearted thread.
My life's purpose in retirement? To enjoy my remaining years however many there may be. Mrs P and I both enjoy excellent health but treat life as though tomorrow may be the last. I did suffer a heart attack in October 2015 but that didn't influence my decision to retire. That came about because of a spot of luck.
Mrs P worked in the NHS her entire career. She was due to retire in September 2016. In the February she was offered redundancy with 12 months salary tax free. She jumped at the offer and was made redundant three months before her retirement date. Absolutely crackers decision by management to make the offer but that's another story. The extra money meant I could retire at 63 instead of 66. We aren't wealthy, living off two small pensions and savings. In 15 months my state pension kicks in and we can stop raiding our capital.
I was only required to give to three months notice but gave nine. I wanted to be sure everything was left as it should be. By doing so I was able to retire on a Friday and had forgotten work by Monday.
Before I retired I planned to get some sort of work. I struggled with the idea of no regular income. Today I can't conceive of giving up MY TIME to work again.
My wife plays tennis, I cycle. We both walk. We have both separate and joint social circles. We holiday together, sometimes we holiday separately with friends - Mrs P didn't fancy a week cycling in Mallorca.
I always enjoyed my career. Very occasionally I hear a snippet and wonder how the business is doing. It lasts five minutes.
To answer your question. In retirement your life purpose is you and your family.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Today I have done absolutely bugger all........which is really quite unusual for me.
Monday Meandering tomorrow with the other old farts
Monday Meandering tomorrow with the other old farts
A bit cheeky I know but how come a small pension after a life in the NHS, a good few of my friends were in that trade and small pensions are something they certainly do not have. As for the management decision, a typical waste of NHS money and they should be sacked.
