The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Just a thought about online buying. My eldest son has a senior position with a major clothing brand supplying in to both independent and chain stores.

With some of the major chain retailers if an item is returned to a store the value of the item is deducted from that store's turnover. If one buys online it's always better to return via post as returning to store contributes to lowering it's profitability and threatens the high Street position.

 

[PaulSB]

Dad was amazing. Going a walk with him he seemed to know the names of every tree and plant. He had some lovely apple trees in the garden too and did all his own grafting and his pals got grafts for their own trees too. There was usually too much veg to use it all so the neighbours and myself benefitted from it too.

He sounds like someone who really knew his stuff. I used to be able to graft but that was a very long time ago. Generally we get a good surplus, I enjoy giving veggies and fruit to friends and feed my freezer for the winter. Loads of gooseberries, peas, beans and kale going in at the moment.

One odd thing. People ask me plant names and I'm finding since I retired I'm forgetting more and more. I look at plants thinking I know that but can't recall it's name. Embarrassing.

Right ironing time.

 

[Dave7]

Morning all. What's the worst thing you can do on a Sunday morning? Well, I'm being dragged against my will to I..f**king..KEA

Hahaha.....even Mrs D laughed at that. We both detest the place.

 

[Dave7]

feed my freezer for the winter. Loads of gooseberries, peas, beans and kale going in at the moment.
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Uhhm sounds lovely. Gooseberry and pea soup....yummy.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Morning all. What's the worst thing you can do on a Sunday morning? Well, I'm being dragged against my will to I..f**king..KEA

Take a paper, a flask and settle down in one of their room displays.

Job jobbed

 

[welsh dragon]

I only went to an IKEA shop once, when they first opened. Didn't buy a anything and never went back a 2nd time. If you want to buy something different to everyone else, then the worst place you could go is there.

Like Mo I always buy most of what I want online. I even buy my bloomers online as it would be embarassing to go Into a shop and having to ask about bloomers that are not continental size, but the size of a continent.

 

[gavroche]

Morning all. What's the worst thing you can do on a Sunday morning? Well, I'm being dragged against my will to I..f**king..KEA

The nearest one to us is in Warrington so much too far to ever go there, pleased to say.

 

[Dave7]

The nearest one to us is in Warrington so much too far to ever go there, pleased to say.

I live near there and wont go.
(One of) the worst things about the place is, its a one way system. You cannot eg go in, buy a set of coffee mugs then go to the till. You are forced to go via every single floor/section/item. You are in a conveyor belt of zombies who are being forced to do exactly the same as you. Dreadful.
IMO of course

 

[Dave7]

I only went to an IKEA shop once, when they first opened. Didn't buy a anything and never went back a 2nd time. If you want to buy something different to everyone else, then the worst place you could go is there.

Like Mo I always buy most of what I want online. I even buy my bloomers online as it would be embarassing to go Into a shop and having to ask about bloomers that are not continental size, but the size of a continent.

Which reminds me. What do you want me to do with the bloomers you left here?

 

[welsh dragon]

Which reminds me. What do you want me to do with the bloomers you left here?

You can use them as a tent.

 

[classic33]

I live near there and wont go.
(One of) the worst things about the place is, its a one way system. You cannot eg go in, buy a set of coffee mugs then go to the till. You are forced to go via every single floor/section/item. You are in a conveyor belt of zombies who are being forced to do exactly the same as you. Dreadful.
IMO of course

I left/exited the nearest one(Bradford) the same route I went in.

 

[Dave7]

I left/exited the nearest one(Bradford) the same route I went in.

You need to sell that route. You could have a stand outside the door selling "how to escape" leaflets. You would earn more than Gareth Bale

 

[Dirk]

Sunday lunch is on it's way.

 

[Dirk]

Quote: 'For the smaller appetite - £7.50'


The White Lion, Broadwindsor, Dorset.

 

[pjd57]

great day at the North Berwick beach with our grandsons.