The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

......There's plenty to do socially for the ladies but, unless you like pubs; little enough for chaps......

You mean there's more?!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

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.

Good story. We need more if these in this thread.

 

[Drago]

Just eaten a huge fry up.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Not a good start to the day. Falsely accused the lovely Mrs SD of purloining my 2 pin adapter for my razor.

I eventually found it where I had last left it.

Cue Humble Pie etc.

This incident will now be replayed back to me many times across the forthcoming years....

Hoping to make up lost ground by gaining Brownie Points for collecting S-I-L from the train station as she is visiting for a week.

 

[Dirk]

Just eaten a huge fry up.

Two fried duck eggs on toast for breakfast, then took dog for a walk out along the dunes and back down the beach.
Hoping weather picks up tomorrow as we are planning a trundle out on our vintage bikes.
In just over a month I will have been retired 3 years - time flies!

 

[petek]

Amazing memories have wives and almost-instant recall too.
I was complementing Debbie McGee's performance on Strictly last night.
MrsP says " Don't start with the Debbie McGee thing again, you were the same last time she was on telly."
Last time I noticed Debbie McGee on telly she was helping Paul Daniels with a magic trick and, I seem to recall; that was on a black and white telly.

 

[Dirk]

Well, it just got better at my local.
2 pints, 2 halves and 2 x fish and chips - £18.40.
Think the barman was on something.

 

[screenman]

Just spending 2.5 hours getting our monies worth in the Yorkshire Premier Lounge.

 

[Drago]

Eating a bag of crisps.

 

[screenman]

Eating a bag of crisps.

Something like that, the booze is really good value, 30 minutes delay damn it, that is another few vodkas.

 

[petek]

Queued outside GP surgery from 7am to get MrsP an appointment.
First in when they opened at 8am.
"Who does she want to see?" Asks receptionist.
"Anybody is fine" says I.
Phone up MrsP and tell her she's in for 9am.
RESULT.... thinks I and MrsP is well pleased too.
Off to Tesco for big shop.
Home at 11.
MrsP livid.
They made her appointment with a flippin' nurse who can't write prescriptions so she has had to go back just now by car to see a proper Doctor at 3pm at a different group-surgery in the next village to us.
We can walk to 'our' surgery in ten minutes.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Venod]

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

I have heard of people being bored when retired, good to see you are doing something about it and enjoying it, I have never being bored since packing in but I don't mind my own company when doing things.

 

[petek]

I have heard of people being bored when retired, good to see you are doing something about it and enjoying it, I have never being bored since packing in but I don't mind my own company when doing things.

Top lad yerself sir. Same here, I enjoy my own company
Retiring was a shock to my system for sure. Started work age 15 and retired 47-years later so I'd got used to it.
I felt useless and it got me down a bit which I'd never had before. Starting a little micro-business got me out of and over that initial shock period . I'm loving retirement now I have finished completely. When MrsP was retiring our work sent her on pre-retirement training days. She reckons those would have helped me but I couldn't be ersed to go at the time.

 

[Dirk]

.... When MrsP was retiring our work sent her on pre-retirement training days. She reckons those would have helped me but I couldn't be ersed to go at the time.

They used to do a 3 day retirement course in my old job.
You could take your wife with you and they'd put you up in a decent hotel. There would be lots of good advice from various specialists to help you adjust financially, emotionally and physically.
All that went out the window about 3 years before I left due to budget cuts.
I had absolutely no support regarding retirement advice and no contact with senior management until my last day, when I had a phone call from my area supervisor about an hour before I left. I didn't even have anything in writing confirming my personal pension payments, despite several attempts to get it. I knew how much I was entitled to, but couldn't get it in writing. It was only confirmed when the first payment was made a month later. I sweated on that a bit, I can say!
They did let me have the afternoon off though, to clear my desk.
After 30 years, I finished on the afternoon and just walked away. My immediate line manager, who was a great bloke and a real friend, was disgusted at the way I had been treated.
Civil Service? My arse!

 

[Oxo]

I worked at the same place for over 30 years. The day I retired in simply walked out of the door, got in my car and drove home. Never looked back, never been back.