The Retirement Thread
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classic33
Leg End Member
Exactly how long have you lived at your current address for now. Path opposite your house and you were "lost".Well that was an interesting walk. We walked to the Spar and decided to explore another route. We were busy jangling while turning down various paths and alleys, when we suddenly realised we did not have a clue where we were. Lots of the paths just fizzled out into dead ends. OK, the Spar is less than a mile nornally so we can't exactly get lost but we just did not recognise anything.
So.... we decided "lets do a left and try this way". We found a school we didn't know existed** and then..........came out on a path DIRECTLY OPPOSITE the close adjoining ours.
**we were at the back of the school so din't recognise it.
It turned into a very, very long 2 miles as we then still had go to the Spar.
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That wasn't a nice morning for a bike ride, 
very cold first thing, I had cold hands for most of the ride, and it 
at the end of the ride, on the run in to Coventry I rode through a series of heavy drizzly showers, I rode 54 miles out to Cosby and back. Initially i couldn't make my mind up as to where to go, I started off thinking Willoughby but walked out the house and decided to do my Brandon loop, headed out through Wood End, Shilton and Withybrook, got to the Fosseway then decided to head for Countersthorpe, when I got to Claybrook Parva I decided to head for Cosby and turned through Frolesworth, Broughton Astley then through Cosby and Countersthorpe then picked up a regular route home through Gilmorton and Ullesthorpe.
very cold first thing, I had cold hands for most of the ride, and it at the end of the ride, on the run in to Coventry I rode through a series of heavy drizzly showers, I rode 54 miles out to Cosby and back. Initially i couldn't make my mind up as to where to go, I started off thinking Willoughby but walked out the house and decided to do my Brandon loop, headed out through Wood End, Shilton and Withybrook, got to the Fosseway then decided to head for Countersthorpe, when I got to Claybrook Parva I decided to head for Cosby and turned through Frolesworth, Broughton Astley then through Cosby and Countersthorpe then picked up a regular route home through Gilmorton and Ullesthorpe.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Well today's ride was not dissimilar to Drago's Y-fronts - damp and grey.
As predicted earlier I have nothing else to do today. Currently I'm drinking tea and playing online Canasta.
The club kit arrived yesterday so I may go and drop that off. It's two months late as the kit is made in Spain and the factory switched to making PPE. 👏👏
Usually the kit is dropped at an LBS and members collect from there. Covid-19 means we are not keen on this option. Social distancing is impossible in this shop, it's tiny. I've arranged for three of our guys to act as cycle couriers.
I may also do something with an aubergine...........🤔
As predicted earlier I have nothing else to do today. Currently I'm drinking tea and playing online Canasta.
The club kit arrived yesterday so I may go and drop that off. It's two months late as the kit is made in Spain and the factory switched to making PPE. 👏👏
Usually the kit is dropped at an LBS and members collect from there. Covid-19 means we are not keen on this option. Social distancing is impossible in this shop, it's tiny. I've arranged for three of our guys to act as cycle couriers.
I may also do something with an aubergine...........🤔
We dont and never have had seperate accounts. Its all in one lump (well two plus the ISAS) and either of us are free to access them. So much easier with less worry/stress.Bonjour. I am doing all the shopping at the moment as my wife won't go to the shops, so she gives me a list every time and always says before I leave: " Go easy with the money" as I also pay with her bank card.
When I got back from Aldi today, she told me I spent too much although I stuck to the list ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but also added a few other things she might like.
To my defence, I easily give to temptation with food especially when I'm not paying.
As the lokdown is relaxing, she may decide to do the shopping herself next time.
Off for a bike ride now as I believe it might be raining for the rest of the week.
My Bro & wife and my mate & wife have seperate accounts. He pays for this....she pays for that......why? I don't get it.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Same in our household, always been a joint account. I do think we are the exception as most of our friends have separate accounts. I've never worried about sharing our incomes and neither has Mrs P. Similar to you I don't get it.
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@dave r exactly the same here. Started off chilly, got progressively colder and then the rain started.......
Yes, on Monday I rode in shorts and overheated a bit, today I was in longs, was cold and could have done with wearing gloves.
12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
Drove 300 miles to Denver Co last Thursday to help my son and his wife move and got done Sunday, back home on Monday. Had no internet while gone ......didn't know I was so addicted to it. That weekend saw rubber bullet shooting cops beating the crap out of Black Lives Matter protestors in downtown Denver, but I was thankfully not at that spot. On the way home got to see my other son and his wife, pregnant with our first grandchild, which was nice. Yesterday here in Casper there was BLM protest, which was peaceful, in spite of a bunch of guys wandering around in camo with assault rifles to "protect people ". From who, I wonder? Finally got a couple of rides in, having not ridden since Wednesday last week. Wife's cancer markers have jumped up significantly and my sister's husband is having hospice. at their home as he's terminal with throat cancer. My sister is falling apart.....they have done everything together since 1963 and neither I nor her daughter and their families can visit from the East Coast. And yet, life is good and these kind of times reinforce my goal to enjoy what I can including the people I love. As it is written..."You maybe can't control what happens to you, but you can control your response to it." Thank God for bicycles and the respite they can give from worrying about all this crap.
Did I say "lost"??
There has never been any reason to explore all those back alleys in that estate. Its a rabbit warren of bungallows. I will probably never go there again.
12boy
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- Location
- Casper WY USA
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
it is the best medicine.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Same here with just one joint bank account for our 50 years together. Everything came out of just that one account and we had equal access to it. We did have separate business accounts but all the profits went eventually into the joint account. We may have been unusual but there were no problems.
We're the same. It all goes into one pot.
Never could understand the 'yours and mine' delineation of finances.
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We've always had seperate accounts, I can't remember why we went down that road now. It might have something to to do with my Good Lady only ever doing part time work or not working at all for most of our time together.
