The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

You did better than I did, I got a shilling pocket money and had to save sixpence of it. I got a paper round when I was fourteen and got the princely some of fifteen shillings a week, but my Mum insisted I save five shillings of that.

I got 12/6d and had to give some of that to my parents for 'keep'.......to learn the value of money

 

[numbnuts]

I got 12/6d and had to give some of that to my parents for 'keep'.......to learn the value of money

I got 12/6d as well 65 papers a night 6 days a week

 

[welsh dragon]

Afternoon folks. A horrible day here. Lots of rain and standing water on the roads. Quite a bleh day to be honest

 

[Drago]

Got to the doctors alive, despite a bus trying to overtake, realising he wasnt going to make it, and pulling back in on me. Screw complaining to the company - the footage will be burned off and sent to the transport commissioner, a copy to the companies managing director, and I'll get Mrs D to plaster it all over Facebook.

Unlike that cycling vigilante twit, the one who's a bus driver himself, I didn't bother shouting and screaming. It achieves nothing, and said vigilante twit keeps getting his teeth kicked in. Unlike him I have neither a small winky of Napoleon syndrome, so I'll let the footage do the talking.

 

[Dirk]

A what??

Just go to Google App Store and search ' sniping ebay'.
You can download an app that allows you to put in the item on eBay that you are bidding for and it automatically enters a bid at the very last moment - you can set it up beforehand and go out and it will bid in your absence. I use them all the time and generally win what I'm bidding on.

 

[Drago]

Indeed, and it prevents you getting into a bidding war with days to go and stupidly inflating the price.

 

[Dirk]

Wet and windy out...........so we've gone to the Bottom Ship in Porlock.

 

[numbnuts]

We have as well

 

[classic33]

I'm here too. Good day to you all. It's raining again, raining............ Feels like there should be a song in there somewhere!!! So quite a lot planned for today. Jump in the car at 9.00 and collect hops for the allotment. Head off to RPH at 12.00 for my pre-op. Tonight we are going to Paul Heathcote's Bolton restaurant "The Northern" with seven friends for a meal and then to see "Beryl" at the Library Theatre. Loads of good reports on both so looking forward to this.

Need to get on the allotment today or tomorrow to do some work. Autumn is really setting in on m veggie patch.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtZYoTD0_o

 

[Mart44]

Good day - Mrs Mart44 is feeling and sounding much better. This means I feel in a lighter mood too. It looks like steroids can work quickly and well.

It was too wet to go to the allotment this morning and looking too much like rain to risk the bike ride over to see my brother this afternoon ..so doing nothing but watching TV. I'm happy enough.

 

[classic33]

Indeed, and it prevents you getting into a bidding war with days to go and stupidly inflating the price.

Have a price set beforehand, and don't go above that. Unless you know you'll loose anyway.

 

[classic33]

Wet and windy out...........so we've gone to the Bottom Ship in Porlock.

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Why's the picture of the bar suffering from camra shake?

 

[Dirk]

Why's the picture of the bar suffering from camra shake?

We had an earthquake.

 

[Drago]

But of a stalemate between me an Scottish Power.

Our electricity meter is wonky, not surprising as it's near on 60 years old. Scottish Power want to fit a smart meter, and i've told them to sodu offu, and they're saying I have to have one, and I'm saying they can kiss my hairy arriss. If the guy turns up with anything resembling a shart meter he simply won't get over the threshold.

 

[Mo1959]

But of a stalemate between me an Scottish Power.

Our electricity meter is wonky, not surprising as it's near on 60 years old. Scottish Power want to fit a smart meter, and i've told them to sodu offu, and they're saying I have to have one, and I'm saying they can kiss my hairy arriss. If the guy turns up with anything resembling a shart meter he simply won't get over the threshold.

I don’t want one either. Don’t know why they are pushing them so hard. More bother than they’re worth. They aren’t going to save you money unless you turn things off/down and you can do that without one.