The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Bang on cue it's hissing down. No ride for me I've bailed out. 😭 I'm sick of this weather.

 

[welsh dragon]

Good morning. What a horrible night last night.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all my fellow shirkers.
Yay...it's Fish Friday!

Just read that North Devon has come first in the country for AirBnB.
Apparently around 1 in 4 properties around here are let out to holiday makers! The next villages to me, Croyde and Georgeham, have a 23% letting rate.
No wonder the local youngsters cant afford to live there.

 

[Dave7]

Joy!


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On the bright side, by 1800 hrs its only a 97% chance of rain

 

[Dave7]

Piddling down here also. Very dark sky and quite windy.
Tidied up (why do I/we always leave it till next morning?).
Enjoying a coffee now.
Next job is to put a loaf in to bake. That will go with the BIG pan of leek & potato soup I made yesterday. With that in mind can we have a vote to ban @Dirk from this site on Fridays. Nice guy and all that but I am planning soup and he mentions fish n chips mmmmm that sounds so good

 

[Drago]

Like a coma patient when they hear their favourite song, I have risen!

 

[numbnuts]

Hi

 

[screenman]

Just had a customer go bankrupt on me so that is £1,000 worse off for me.

 

[PaulSB]

Morning all fellow members, it's not raining wahoo! I am off to the Stevenage real ale festival later on, easy enough to get to by train. We are meeting in the cafe in New Barnet for breakfast first, it should be a good afternoon 🍺🍺🍺

So is it raining Garmin?

 

[Dave7]

Just had a customer go bankrupt on me so that is £1,000 worse off for me.

I had one that took me for £35K....
It hurts though doesn't it. You have to be philosophical about it, swallow it and carry on.

 

[Mo1959]

Sweeties anyone? In my local deli. I will rush straight up. Lol.

 

[PaulSB]

I'm going to have a bit of a technology day as some of our kit is dying. Mrs P has an iPhone 4 and the family laptop** is almost steam driven. So anyone had good experience recently on:

Budget price smart phones
Budget price laptops
Password managers - I really need to improve our security in this area

* I use a very nice Windows 10 Surface Pro which I won in a competition three years ago. It's mine!! I know it sounds mean but the way Mrs P uses a computer drives me round the twist so to avoid divorce I have to keep this for me.

 

[Dirk]

Can recommend the Motorola G6 Play.
Argos have a good price on the updated G7 model.
https://www.argos.co.uk/search/motorola-g7/?clickOrigin=searchbar:search:term:motorola+g7

 

[classic33]

Sweeties anyone? In my local deli. I will rush straight up. Lol.

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I'll have the Nessie Eggs and the Maggots.

And a packet of Bull ****e from the left. Seems to be selling well.

 

[Dirk]

Off for a doggie walk along the estuary and back through the dunes now.
Still a bit breezy but at least it ain't raining.