The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Morning all, supermarket day today.

4.5 hours yesterday evening was spent watching the Eurosport Giro then Vuelta coverage. Boy was that an epic stage of the Giro !

 

[Paulus]

We are huge Springsteen fans in this house. The Boss never fails to put a smile on my face. We had been hoping there would be one last tour but Covid-19 has probably dashed that, our plan was anywhere in Europe and we would go.

Bruce is on the Graham Norton show tonight. I just wonder what he may be promoting? I've been thinking recently he should put on a live E-Street Band show for worldwide broadcast.

Stumbled across this cover of one of my favourite songs. Always makes me want to dance. Love this version

The Rising - Nancy Wilson

The Boss does a really good show on BBC R2 on a friday night, Saturday morning which I catch up on the sounds APP. An excellent choice of music with a couple of his own songs thrown in. Give it a try there are quite a few episodes on there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nfss

 

[PaulSB]

@Paulus - thank you. Didn't know about this.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay...it's Fish Friday!
But...............we had fish & chips on Tuesday, so we've decided to have a Pasty instead.
Our nearest local, which used to be our favourite up until July when the landlord left, has now reopened under new management.
We tried it once in August, when a supply manager was running it, but he rubbed everyone up the wrong way by being an openly racist Nazi, banning all and sundry, and not opening at lunchtimes. Thankfully, he only lasted 2 months.
Hopefully the new guys running the place will do it justice.
They seem to be on the right footing; the first thing they did was to change opening hours to 10am - 10pm.
Local social media is giving them the thumbs up.
We will give the place a test run at lunchtime.

 

[PaulSB]

Good grief, next thing you know we'll be in the middle of a pandemic.........then Lancashire can have something to moan about.

Meanwhile Chorley people are outraged.........Tesco bags for life have gone up to 20p!!! Take your own feckin' bag and save 20p.........and the planet.

Tesco increase bags for life by 10p

 

[Tenkaykev]

Hadn't come across this before. How does it work? You book a table for two hours and then leave??

I think at least one of our number might struggle? 🤔😄

That's it exactly. They leave 15 minutes between slots to clean down the table/chairs.
Last week the people due to take our table arrived late so we got an extension. It's actually a good way of doing it, removes the temptation of "just one more" 😁🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good grief, next thing you know we'll be in the middle of a pandemic.........then Lancashire can have something to moan about.

Meanwhile Chorley people are outraged.........Tesco bags for life have gone up to 20p!!! Take your own feckin' bag and save 20p.........and the planet.

Tesco increase bags for life by 10p

20p! That's four shillings in "real" money, for a feckin plastic bag! When I were a lad... 😉

 

[numbnuts]

morning all I'm up again

 

[welsh dragon]

It might be pasty day for us as well.

 

[PaulSB]

@ColinJ - thanks for the tip about my aerial input to the set top box. I tightened the female input socket with a pair of pliers. It worked.

Now another question. We like to keep the sockets in a cable tidy. We have four in an extension inside one of these. When I put everything back in the cable tidy pixelation returns but nothing like as badly.

Is it possible if cables are touching each other this creates interference? The aerial cable is not touching any electrical cables but is obviously close by.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/d-line-large-cable-tidy-unit-white/89272

 

[Dirk]

It might be pasty day for us as well.

We're having proper Devon pasties, none of your Cornish muck 'ere, me lubbers!

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. I have bimbled in the rain and puddles. Had more pleasant spins! The afternoon is supposed to be drier, but knowing me, I wouldn't bother going by then so that's it done. Tomorrow is even worse so won't be doing anything.

This porridge is going to be good after that.

 

[GM]

Morning all... Waiting excitedly for our Asda delivery, supposed to be here shortly. Then out for a coffee with our friends who have just moved back from the Peak district. Then we have our local coffee van man delivering a couple of basic things, keeps him busy during the bad times.

Have a good day folks! 🌈

 

[screenman]

Swim done, cold splash done and I am feeling great, couple of dents have just come in so off to do them.

 

[Dave7]

One of our friends has booked a slot for 6pm. It's for 2 hours. Last week we were able to extend it for an extra 30 minutes.
The pub is on the ball with regards to hygiene / distancing etc

I thought all pubs that don't serve "substantial food" have been forced to close.......but tbh I have more or less given up trying to understand the rules