The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

@dave r always good to start the day with a good belly laugh.

It's very dark and absolutely hissing down here. Hardly worth thinking about going outside but I have an appointment with my financial advisor at 12.00. Seems appropriate on a dark, wet and miserable morning.

Now I shall do the ironing.

 

[Drago]

Drive through the Dartford Tunnel, put your screen washers on full and shout "Its leaking!!!"

 

[Dirk]

Good morning. I have a horrible cold. My dose hurts and i can't breathe. Mr WD is treating me like i have the plague or some kind of incurable disease.

 

[PaulSB]

Oh yes, before I start the ironing. One to make the beer drinkers jealous. Last Thursday I enjoyed a world exclusive. Local to us is a great micro brewery which I visit once a week to collect their spent hops. These I use on my allotment.

www.beerbrothers.co.uk

So were standing around shooting the breeze when one of the guys appears with a glass of beer. "Try this. It's only been out of the fermenter for 20 minutes." Paul tastes beer which is wonderful. Cold, sparkly on the tongue, like a first glass IPA without the hoppiness.

"That's our new beer. You're the first person outside the brewery to taste it. It's called Simply Red."

It's unlikely you'll find their beers outside 20 miles from Preston but you can always visit us. Fabulous range of beers and this one is an absolute belter!!!

 

[Mart44]

Good morning - It's very dark and wet here and if we didn't have to go out we wouldn't. We have to brave the weather though because Mrs mart has a medical appointment at the doctor's.

No mean task in the rain because she's in a wheelchair and it takes time to get from the car into the wheelchair and vice versa. A lot of time for us both to get wet in weather like this.

 

[GM]

Good morning. I have a horrible cold. My dose hurts and i can't breathe. Mr WD is treating me like i have the plague or some kind of incurable disease.

yes, back to bed and make sure you get pampered!

 

[screenman]

A first for me , drove 10 miles to the pool and decided the shoulder was just too painful and called it off, normally I would have given it a go. Now back home for the day with a few dents lined up to play with.

GWS Welshie, remember you recover faster with rest.

 

[Drago]

Oh yes, before I start the ironing. One to make the beer drinkers jealous. Last Thursday I enjoyed a world exclusive. Local to us is a great micro brewery which I visit once a week to collect their spent hops. These I use on my allotment.

www.beerbrothers.co.uk

So were standing around shooting the breeze when one of the guys appears with a glass of beer. "Try this. It's only been out of the fermenter for 20 minutes." Paul tastes beer which is wonderful. Cold, sparkly on the tongue, like a first glass IPA without the hoppiness.

"That's our new beer. You're the first person outside the brewery to taste it. It's called Simply Red."

It's unlikely you'll find their beers outside 20 miles from Preston but you can always visit us. Fabulous range of beers and this one is an absolute belter!!!

Thats why I brew my own. Much better than the filth they sell up the offie.

 

[Dirk]

Having to wait in for a parcel (new 110ah leisure battery for the van),
courier tracking says they will be here between 10.17 and 12.17.
I'm hoping it will be the earlier time as I need to go down the village this morning.
We've had some flooding in the village last night apparently.

 

[Dave7]

She's already got one of those......

Nice of you to say it but I am really not that young

 

[Dave7]

Like most places the weather is 'orrible.
No plans for the day though so its a chill one.
GWS welshie.

 

[Lee_M]

Horrible in North Wales today

Off to a spin class instead (at my wife's insistence!)

 

[Drago]

Pithing down with rain. House tidy, chores done, bored. I would go to the range and get some shooting time in but the country roads are treacherous round here here in the heavy rain and no fun in the Smart car. Perhaps when I get the XC90, but not in a car so light it actually floats.

 

[Lee_M]

This has come up on my facebook page this morning and made me smile.


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They actually sell caffeinated water in the US

 

[classic33]

Never made me one!