The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

Morning! Very windy here on my last day of holiday before going back to school tomorrow.
Apart from having a hair cut and paying the last of the Council Tax till the spring, nothing else planned. Will take Molly on the beach later.

 

[oldwheels]

Pouring rain and very windy. The forecast for wind strengths this week are the worst I have seen.
Calmac cancelled the 1400 sailing from Oban today and the corresponding return for unspecified reasons.
They wait until the panic has died down as everybody has rescheduled their journeys and cancelled or altered appointments. The sailing is then reinstated. Normal island life.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm sat in Harvey's Coffee Cabin with a coffee and a teacake, its going awfully black over bills mothers, it maybe a damp ride home.

 

[Dirk]

.........but it's not spring! Well that's my excuse anyway.

If don't get it done in January and February, it won't get done at all.
Just booked our first 2 trips for this year, so that's one month away sorted.

 

[oldwheels]

Just got an email from DVLA. I sold my motorhome but my outstanding tax was not refunded after 8 weeks so started agitating. They now will look into the matter and expect a reply in 6 weeks. Six weeks to check if a payment has been sent and if not get it sorted! Have they only got one person doing the whole country or what?

 

[Mo1959]

Pouring rain and very windy. The forecast for wind strengths this week are the worst I have seen.
Calmac cancelled the 1400 sailing from Oban today and the corresponding return for unspecified reasons.
They wait until the panic has died down as everybody has rescheduled their journeys and cancelled or altered appointments. The sailing is then reinstated. Normal island life.

Wild here at the moment too. Supposed to ease by mid afternoon so might at least get another walk. Which island are you on?

 

[Mart44]

Good morning - It's dry here but rain is expected later. I just got back from the allotment having put some log-roll bordering around what will be the new strawberry bed. We'll be getting a silver in the 'tidy allotment' awards this year at this rate. It was bronze last year.

 

[Drago]

Just going to have a nap prior to riding up to Oldham and jumping on the plane to Lerwick.

 

[Mo1959]

Just going to have a nap prior to riding up to Oldham and jumping on the plane to Lerwick.

Might be a bumpy flight judging by wind speeds on Lerwick.

 

[oldwheels]

Mo I have lived on Mull for nearly 50 years now and while we probably have more expectations nowadays we have a better service than we had then tho’ there was not the same volume of traffic. My job involved among other things arranging the transport of large lorries with not the infrastructure to deal with them. Interesting times and I could probably write a book similar to the Para Handy tales.

 

[classic33]

Just going to have a nap prior to riding up to Oldham and jumping on the plane to Lerwick.

Oldham has an airport!!

Nose gear is the quickest to retract, but you tend to get more room. Why didn't you buy a genuine ticket?

 

[Dirk]

Just delved into the depths of a Thetford C250 caravan toilet cassette to change the lip seal.
Not my favourite job of all time!

 

[classic33]

Might be a bumpy flight judging by wind speeds on Lerwick.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AYBI6D76FK8

 

[IaninSheffield]

A tad breezy out there today, but hard-won miles are worth more in the bank though surely?

 

[welsh dragon]

Good afternoon. Back from shopping and bill paying. Wet and windy here now.