The Retirement Thread

[screenman]

Another fine day and off to play with some dents today, maybe a quick ride first though.

 

[PaulSB]

What a lovely morning. Off on holiday tomorrow so I’m heading up to the allotment to pick gooseberries which decided to ripen this weekend!!

Lovely ride yesterday but go bitten ........ by a jack Russell. Hurt! One has to admire the little bugger’s accuracy. Who amongst us could hit an ankle rotating through 360 degrees while traveling forward at 15mph??

Went back to the farmhouse, knocked on door and informed the lady of what had happened. She apologised and offered to pay for my ruined socks while mentioning it’s hard to stop him chasing things.

Shutting the gate would help

 

[welsh dragon]

Good morning folks. Another nice day here. Hopefully not as hot as it has been, fingers crossed. Hope your ankle is ok @PaulSB . I think my action towards the offfending animal might have been a bit different. It may well have ended up with a sore a***e.

Have a good one peeps.

 

[PaulSB]

Hope your ankle is ok @PaulSB . I think my action towards the offfending animal might have been a bit different. It may well have ended up with a sore a***e.

Thanks WD. A small skin puncture and bruising this morning but doesn’t hurt. I try to avoid ranting when this happens. Kicking it’s a**e wasn’t an option, it was a vicious bugger, he came back for more of me when I spoke to the owner. My experience is jack russells can’t be trusted - as a child I had a really bad bite from a friend’s “daft as a brush” pet. Another one chewed through the chicken wire on our guinea pig run to get at our pets - I exacted severe revenge on that one. It’s owner offered to put it down but I declined.

Not much luck with dogs recently. Last Wednesday I was on a five mile descent at 35mph. Visibity about 0.5 mile ahead. From the only side road emerged yellow tennis ball, followed by Afghan terrier, followed by owner. I still don’t know how I missed him but my buddy said it was impressive and frighteningly close!!!

Went back to remonstrate with the owner who was going to get both barrels and possibly a reload but he’d disappeared very quickly.

 

[welsh dragon]

Thanks WD. A small skin puncture and bruising this morning but doesn’t hurt. I try to avoid ranting when this happens. Kicking it’s a**e wasn’t an option, it was a vicious bugger, he came back for more of me when I spoke to the owner. My experience is jack russells can’t be trusted - as a child I had a really bad bite from a friend’s “daft as a brush” pet. Another one chewed through the chicken wire on our guinea pig run to get at our pets - I exacted severe revenge on that one. It’s owner offered to put it down but I declined.

Not much luck with dogs recently. Last Wednesday I was on a five mile descent at 35mph. Visibity about 0.5 mile ahead. From the only side road emerged yellow tennis ball, followed by Afghan terrier, followed by owner. I still don’t know how I missed him but my buddy said it was impressive and frighteningly close!!!

Went back to remonstrate with the owner who was going to get both barrels and possibly a reload but he’d disappeared very quickly.

Good lord. You do seem to have bad luck where dogs are concerned. I have never liked small dogs. IMHO they can never be trusted. Well done for avoiding that one.

 

[Dirk]

I have never liked small dogs. IMHO they can never be trusted.

 

[welsh dragon]

 

[Drago]

Morning team. Up at 5am to walk Lemmy while it was still cool. I then hit the weights, although I didn't see Woodbutcher down the gym.

 

[Dirk]

Bit of a lie in and late breakfast, then I'll be hitching up and towing back to North Devon.
I usually go up the A377 from Exeter but it's currently closed for a few weeks whilst they do some work at Eggesford. So it's the M5 and the North Devon link road for me this morning. Hope the link road is clear; it was closed for 6 hours the other day because of an accident - so North Devon was effectively cut off from civilisation. Trouble was.........no one noticed!

 

[Drago]

Collecting my stylish convertible at 11.

 

[perplexed]

Up a little later today. It's noticeably cooler and for the first time in weeks it's grey and overcast, with a slight mist on the hills. I'm sure it'll burn off in a bit.

Going to get a load of laundry on the line soon, then I've got to work out an efficient way of selling a relation's car for them without a) getting ripped off, and b) too much hassle, as essentially I'm going to have to do the whole thing even though I don't own it (and not to mention it's situated about 12 miles away). Not particularly looking forward to it, but it's all part of life's rich tapestry...

 

[Drago]

It's hotter than Carol Vorderman naked, smeared in Marmite, holding a pint of Guinness in her hand and a copy of Motorcyle News in her teeth.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Wedges The Earlswood Plant Centre and a proper bacon sandwich.

 

[welsh dragon]

I picked enough blackcurrants to make a jar of jam. They are in the breadmaker now. I have a jam setting on my breadmaker. Should be ready to put into the jar in about an hour.

 

[Dirk]

Caravan dropped off at the storage compound and now off home for lunch. Had a cracking 10 days away. Back home for a week then we're off again for two weeks.