The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Morning all, yet another grey day outside. I have a dental appointment for 12.30, just for a checkup. I think today will be a bike cleaning day. Chains, cassettes and Chainrings are particularly mucky, then a good wash down for the frames.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning - It's supermarket shopping day today. I also have some problems with Virgin Media to sort out over the phone. Both activities should keep me occupied for a good while.

I'm with the Post Office and I'm just back online having been offline all night, I'll have to have a word and find out what went on.

 

[Dirk]

Making myself scarce this morning whilst Mrs D clears out the office/spare bedroom.
Taking doggie for a walk, then having a stroll don to the village to pick up a newspaper.

 

[PaulSB]

Good day. It's a bit meh here.

Off to see the practice nurse shortly for second MMR jab. After that I'm not sure. Should be a housework day but I've no motivation for that at present.

 

[gavroche]

Hello. Not needed in school today so another day off. Can't go for a ride as winds of 44 mph. What shall I do? May be clean my Allez , My two other bikes have not been out since last October so still clean. Long lazy day ahead then.

 

[Mo1959]

Good day. It's a bit meh here.

Off to see the practice nurse shortly for second MMR jab. After that I'm not sure. Should be a housework day but I've no motivation for that at present.

I didn't know they gave that to adults. Learn something new every day.

 

[Dave7]

Good morning peeps.
Horrible gray day. Due for some rain but there is little wind about.
I have to have a tooth out this morning. Dentist found it was dead at my last checkup but said to leave it unless it started giving problems. ......which it now is. Sadly I am a coward at such things. I used to be OK when they knocked you out but not when you are wide awake. So if you hear some screams about 11.15 that will be me.
After that our plan is to go and book a Menorca holiday for September. We wanted May/early June but its fully booked.......any later and its too hot for us.

 

[Mo1959]

Good morning peeps.
Horrible gray day. Due for some rain but there is little wind about.
I have to have a tooth out this morning. Dentist found it was dead at my last checkup but said to leave it unless it started giving problems. ......which it now is. Sadly I am a coward at such things. I used to be OK when they knocked you out but not when you are wide awake. So if you hear some screams about 11.15 that will be me.
After that our plan is to go and book a Menorca holiday for September. We wanted May/early June but its fully booked.......any later and its too hot for us.

I was scared of the dentist for a long time but it's massively improved over the years since the dark old days of the school dentist. First tooth I had extracted after many years and I was dreading it, but a little push and pull and it was out without any discomfort whatsoever.

 

[Dave7]

I was scared of the dentist for a long time but it's massively improved over the years since the dark old days of the school dentist. First tooth I had extracted after many years and I was dreading it, but a little push and pull and it was out without any discomfort whatsoever.

TBH this one should be easy as it is already slightly loose. I had its close neighbour out a couple of years back and it went like..........."crack. Oops, sorry its snapped. I cant get at the root so you will have to go to the hospital for them to cut the gum".
I didn't go and the new dentist said "no problem, the gum has healed over it. Lots of people are walking around with bits of teeth left in".

 

[classic33]

I was scared of the dentist for a long time but it's massively improved over the years since the dark old days of the school dentist. First tooth I had extracted after many years and I was dreading it, but a little push and pull and it was out without any discomfort whatsoever.

Been carried out twice and into ambulance twice. Once with the dentist being taken to A&E in the same one.

 

[rustybolts]

Been carried out twice and into ambulance twice. Once with the dentist being taken to A&E in the same one.

Remember Pam Ayers

OH, I WISH I'D LOOKED AFTER MY TEETH

by

Pam Ayres
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath,
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
When I had more tooth there than fillin'
To pass up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers
And to buy something else with me shillin'.

When I think of the lollies I licked,
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,
"If you got a tooth, you got a friend"
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time... I could bite!

If I'd known I was paving the way,
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fiIlin's
Injections and drillin's
I'd have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine,
"Two amalgum," he'll say, "for in there."

How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

 

[PaulSB]

I didn't know they gave that to adults. Learn something new every day.

It's because I was born before MMR became available and I'm travelling to an area where one or more may be around.

I "think" I had mumps as a child but I'm not sure.

 

[PaulSB]

Feeling more motivated now. I have stack of stuff on my to do list. I'm going to blitz the house as fast as possible and then get doing things I'd like/need to do.

 

[Mo1959]

It's because I was born before MMR became available and I'm travelling to an area where one or more may be around.

I "think" I had mumps as a child but I'm not sure.

I think I had measles, mumps and chicken pox as a child then got a Rubella vaccination in primary school.

 

[Mo1959]

Chucking it down here.