The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

[QUOTE 4958183, member: 43827"]One of those days that make me wish I wasn't retired.

My wife has difficulty walking at the moment, we've got visitors coming this weekend, and I've had to spend the day dusting and hoovering everywhere, cleaning the bathrooms and the spare bedrooms, making the beds etc. I always do my share of the housework but today has been full on.[/QUOTE]

Yes, this can be very taxing - my S-I-L arrives for a weeks stay Sunday after this.

I have the same coming up - deep joy!

 

[Dirk]

Well, I'm glad that week's over!
We were booked for a 4 day narrow boat holiday, with 2 other couples, for my best mates 60th.
Plan was to drive up to the Midlands on Monday, board the boat on Tuesday, 4 days cruising the Droitwich loop then back home on Sunday.
Day before we went, the power steering packed up on my car.
Luckily, the local garage owner lives down the road and he lent me an old Honda CRV whilst he had my car in for repair.
Drove up on Monday, stopping off for a snack - prawn sandwich - on the way.
Arrived at mates house and immediately started feeling unwell.
Spent the next 3 hours with my head down the bog. Never been so sick before!
Had to take to bed for the next 2 days - unable to do anything.
Missed my mates 60th party, which was taking place on the Monday night.
On Tuesday, they left to get on the boat. I stayed in bed.
Managed to get up and about on Thursday.
Missus drove us down to the marina, where we got a taxi to meet up with the boat in Droitwich on the night.
We managed one (very expensive) day's cruising!
Got back yesterday and my car had been returned, repaired.......£470.

Think I need a holiday to get over last week!

 

[Oxo]

Could be worse, you could be going to work today.

 

[Drago]

There's never a day I wish I was wasnt retired. I've had 30 years of being told when I can marry someone, where I must live, what I can do in my own time. Now I live in a house I own and I'm not reliant on being nice to an incompetent buffoon for my income.

I answer to no one, and I love it.

 

[Oxo]

There's never a day I wish I was retired.

There's never a day when I wish I was going back to work.

 

[screenman]

There's never a day I wish I was retired. I've had 30 years of being told when I can marry someone, where I must live, what I can do in my own time. Now I live in a house I own and I'm not reliant on being nice to an incompetent buffoon for my income.

I answer to no one, and I love it.

Does your wife agree?

Must admit I would have not lasted 5 minutes in a job like you describe there.

 

[vickster]

There's never a day I wish I was retired. I've had 30 years of being told when I can marry someone, where I must live, what I can do in my own time. Now I live in a house I own and I'm not reliant on being nice to an incompetent buffoon for my income.

I answer to no one, and I love it.

I think you've missed a word from your first sentence?! If not, the rest makes no sense

 

[Dirk]

Could be worse, you could be going to work today.

Very true.
Think I'll go for a ride and chill out.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Spent the day playing Warren Buffet with our unexpected windfall received last week. Having a bit of a dabble with some self-select funding options.

Have been swatting up on this sort of thing for a while just waiting for an excuse to break free of my usual financial conservatism. I've not gone mad but have stuck a medium sized toe in the water to see what happens. (Can't find a fingers crossed smiley.)

We (Mrs SD and me) did do well last time we had an unexpected windfall and managed to quadruple it's value from 2001 to 2015 although we can't claim any real credit for that as the initial money was put into a fully managed fund where all we did was select the fund on the basis of what areas it was investing in. The only thing that we will take credit for is that we held our nerve after the big wobble around 2008/9.

 

[Drago]

There's never a day when I wish I was going back to work.

Glaring error corrected!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

A little bit of financial fun for any retired Red Devils fans:

https://uk.virginmoney.com/savings/...d_rate_double_champions_isa_issue_1/overview/

We did a couple of similar ISA's a few years back on a Rory McIlroy theme - can't remember the precise details but we came up trumps.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Heavy day here following decision to have a few days off from my on/off semi-retirement employment to coincide with visit of S-I-L.

Made bed.

Made and consumed Beans on Toast. Yum!

Thought about tackling rear lawns for the last time this year - key word being 'thought'.

Stared at the primer coated section of the balcony railings and wondered what it would look like with a top coat - decided it looks ok as it is today but I might have a stab at it tomorrow or even the day after.

Made a unilateral decision to remove the big black ceramic fruit bowl from the breakfast table. Surrounding my banana stash was one emery board for nail polishing, two small bottles of nail polish, a pair of earbuds for an iPad, a small piece of plastic that has no immediately obvious purpose and a 2p piece. None of which I have put there, the culprit being the lovely Mrs SD - I have complained before about similar occurrences, obviously to no avail. Hence, I have now removed the bowl and put it away and at the same time relocated the 'nanas to a trivet on the worktop and the 'junk' to her dressing room.

Also made the decision not to give her a really good telling off about this when she gets home as she has already been told off once this morning and twice in a day may unleash more trouble than it is worth. First telling off was for shoving a great big bunch of keys into her new Goretex jacket pocket. At face value this may not seem much of a problem. However, her previous jacket ended up with a hole in the pocket because she used to shove her great big bunch of keys in there. Other than that the jacket had years of life left into it. This offends my semi-retirement fiscal sensibilities.

Had a on/off trawl through CC, Bike Radar, a watch forum and my usual Chelsea FC haunts.

And it's still not yet 11am. Busy, busy, busy....

 

[Dirk]

Decided to start renovating my wife's Raleigh Popular that she's had from new since 1983 this morning.
Last used 9 years ago and stored in the shed since.

Quick general clean up and then remove both wheels and tyres. Front end no problem.
Rear end took 2 hours to remove and replace! Good job they don't use this system on Tour bikes! I can see why the British cycle industry went down the pan.
Anyway, after much heaving, sweating and swearing I got it sorted. It was 12.30 by then, so it was off down the pub for lunch on the pub bike.

Will finish off the Raleigh tomorrow.

Sod it!

 

[Drago]

Been across to visit an old chum. He's bought a classic car and I bimbled over for a nosy...at his 2CV.

 

[petek]

Early retired in 2012 on a decent ( TPS) pension as did MrsL. We downsized to the seaside.
MrsL is a WI stalwart of many years standing so fell in with new chums and activities immediately
I became very bored very quickly and started a micro business.
Sold that on at the start of this summer as it had stopped being micro and it has found a living for a local lad.
Also my state pension started so it seemed a bit greedy to carry on plus I was feeling it when it got to six days a week.
More time for the bicycle nowadays and enjoying that.
Came as quite a shock to the system did being retired and I've seen similar since with other chaps who have retired and moved here.
There's plenty to do socially for the ladies but, unless you like pubs; little enough for chaps.
Since I packed in work a few of us retired men have started a weekly ride out, just a gentle bimble to a cake stop and back. Started with two, last week we had twelve. The nice weather helps.
Winter is coming.