The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Morning All

29.5c or 85f in old money here.It reached 33c yesterday but i think it will end up hotter than that today.
I see all the "snowflakes" are moaning about a week long heatwave.They wouldn't have lasted long in 1976.?
Well that's my "old fart"rant.

I remember 1976. I got sunstroke! Lol.

 

[Drago]

Hot. 27 degrees in the relatively cool indoors.

 

[numbnuts]

Really hot then went cloudy, now we have rain

Well that didn't last long now the suns out and 33c

 

[randynewmanscat]

This is why all activities are cancelled or postponed today. Retirement to the swimming pool until early evening.

 

[Drago]

Yeah, I'm in low energy idle mode. Possible the hotted day even in England, not risking my health.

 

[Mart44]

I remember 1976. I got sunstroke! Lol.

Ah yes. we thought that hot summer would never end. It was quite a shock when it actually rained.

 

[Drago]

I remember '76. Of course, I was a kid and ran around for 6 weeks with no suncream and nothing to drink from dawn until dusk, and did just fine. We we tough then.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Ah yes. we thought that hot summer would never end. It was quite a shock when it actually rained.

I remember, the day I went to the motorcycle show in London it hammered down all the way back home, rode up the M1 M45 in a torrential downpour and arrived home looking like a drowned rat.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I got back home about twenty past one, did 54 miles, rode most of the way back with my mates before peeling of to do the last few miles home alone.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Ah yes. we thought that hot summer would never end. It was quite a shock when it actually rained.

I was at my brothers wedding when the summer gave way to the first sign of autumn. September something. That's why he doesn't get a wedding anniversary card, I don't remember the date. I had finished a summer full time job at Harry Halls shop on the princely wage of £16.50 a week paid on a Saturday and started college the Monday after.

 

[randynewmanscat]

I remember, the day I went to the motorcycle show in London it hammered down all the way back home, rode up the M1 M45 in a torrential downpour and arrived home looking like a drowned rat.

Do you remember the date?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Do you remember the date?

Not of the top of my head, September?

 

[Dirk]

Been out this morning to look at a couple of wooded hill forts. Nice and cool in the woods.
Stopped off for rehydration at the Admiral Hood.
Back to the van for lunch. Currently 33° c in the van. All windows open, Heki open and fan on. Should cool down a bit soon.
Got a barby on the go tonight.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Not of the top of my head, September?

I think it was very early September. Without embarrassing myself by phoning my brother to ask him on what date he married I will guess.
Many of my friends took the summer off and loafed before university or college and I felt some envy but Harry Hall gave me discount. Like the old days of the truck acts he gave me money with one hand and took it back with the other. My friends had deep sun tans and I had campy equipped bikes.

 

[PaulSB]

Today I have successfully navigated by public transport from the Velodrome to MRI Oxford Road. Tram, bus, walk - even found the ward.

This is an achievement worthy of note!

Even more noteworthy is my first pace line at the Velodrome. It was hot.