The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

The Eagle has landed!

How spooky is this?
Chatting to the CL site owner and it turns out his nephew lives two doors away from me!

 

[screenman]

I'm thinking of starting a chat forum for active retired folk. Alas, I haven't a clue where to start.

Might be better with inactive, most of the retired people I know do very little except moan.

 

[Alan Frame]

Might be better with inactive, most of the retired people I know do very little except moan.

I'll be avoiding that one then, can't stand miserable old gits.
There are a hell of a lot of mogs around, often starting in their thirties!
Life's too short to make yourself miserable by moaning.

 

[Dirk]

Might be better with inactive, most of the retired people I know do very little except moan.

Most of the ones I know are very happy with life.

 

[screenman]

Most of the ones I know are very happy with life.

You do not live in Lincolnshire, some can moan about having nothing to moan about. Looking forward to moving somewhere more cheery soon now the kids are sorted.

 

[Dirk]

How good is this?
Superb tomato and basil soup. Nicest ham egg and chips I've had for a long while.
Pensioners special at the Rifle Volunteer Inn, Gunnislake.
£7.50 for the two courses!
Best deal I've had anywhere.

 

[screenman]

That is extremely unkind, I am back on a lettuce leaf a day.

 

[Dirk]

Nice to see proper slices of real ham - not the usual wafer thin bits of reformed pork that so many pubs serve up...

Really nice dry cure as well. Chips were excellent.Superb!
We spent more on beer than food.

 

[Dirk]

Temperature in Cornwall is currently 28°C.

 

[Alan Frame]

You listen to Radio 2 !

Planet Rock or nothing for me

Temperature in Cornwall is currently 28°C. View attachment 369187

 

[Drago]

That's a Citroen or Peugeot Papa Dirkie.

 

[Dirk]

That's a Citroen or Peugeot Papa Dirkie.

Peugeot 207SW 1.6 HDi diesel.

 

[Dirk]

Bloody useless weather forecasters!
No rain forecast today.

What's it doing?

 

[Drago]

Moaning is one of the pleasures of retirement. I can speak my mind without fear of being sacked. So many workplaces perform sub-optimally, sometimes very badly so, because those that actually do the work and see the problems are too much in fear of their jobs if they complain to their bosses...who are often the people that caused the problems in the first place.

So moaning is good - we're telling it straight, telling it how we we see it, without concealment or dilution. We are free to tell the painful truth.

 

[screenman]

Never had those experiences.