The Retirement Thread

[BoldonLad]

Is the bonus just paid automatically?

Yes, at least, I do not recall ever actually applying/registering for it.

 

[welsh dragon]

Are you a "grannie" then ?
Our surname is Smith and MrsD said there is now way she will be a grannie Smith. So Nana its been.

Gran now that they are all adults. Gran sounds better than Nan or nanny. I prefer Gran

 

[Dave7]

Back from my brief trip.
Interesting......I went out without my phone and felt undressed without it . How crazy is that ? I was in my 40s before ever seeing a mobile and now I can't go out without it.
A few jobs to do now. Mainly folding and putting the washing away. Then the 2nd kitchen needs a good sorting out.
Oh....I recorded the footy highlights last night so will watch those.

 

[welsh dragon]

Just looked at my online banking and the massive £10 is in our account. Now. What to spend it on.

 

[BoldonLad]

The winter of 1947 was supposed to be really bad as well. I saw videos of people trying to dig out trains that got stuck

I was born October 1947, so, missed the "bad" winter of 1947, but, I remember the winter of 1963 (I was 16). Our house was lower than the road, with steps up to the road, I remember having to dig out the steps, which were completely obliterated by snow, and, being sent to an Aunt's house, about 4 miles from where we lived, with a sledge, to drag home two 1cwt sacks of coal (Aunt's husband was a coal miner and received "free" coal).

 

[classic33]

There's an interesting article here on turning off some of Google and Facebooks tracking.

https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/how-to-stop-facebook-and-google-from-spying-on-you

An example of google tracking me,

It also thinks I'm a Bot!

 

[Exlaser2]

I would have been 4 so don't remember it but dad often talked about it. Snow piled up at the sides of the road way over the height of your head. Unlike now when a dusting of snow seems to bring things to a halt, things almost carried on as normal. Schools still on and people got to work.

My first winter , born in the November of 62.
It was a different world then, so my dad used to tell me . Most people didnt have to travel the distances we are doing/did in this century just to go to work, shop or school. Villages had schools and shops in them and the school teachers would probably live in the village to . Plus very few people then commuted the distances the average person does these days .
I feel very lucky in my working life that I never had to commute more 10 miles , in fact for 20 years my workplace was less than 4 miles from my house .😀😀

 

[classic33]

I was born Feb 47.....the worst winter on record.
Don't blame me!!!

Why not?

 

[classic33]

Apparently people in Powys will have to travel some distance to get the vaccination for Covid19. The earnest for us will be Newtown a 50 mile round trip. Not too bad.

The other place for Powys is Brecon so sod that one.

75 or 160 yards, depends on which they choose. Both have the ability to run a one-way system, if required. Are in the open, not inside.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just looked at my online banking and the massive £10 is in our account. Now. What to spend it on.

Lucky Lady in the 3:15 at Chepstow 🏇😉

 

[Dirk]

Cock up on the tyre front.
They only had two in, so I've got to drop it off again tomorrow morning to have the rears changed.
Good news is, they've finally found an annoying rattle that has been there since February. An anti rattle rubber washer, on one of the brake caliper mounting pins, had disintegrated. It'd been driving me mad for months!

 

[BoldonLad]

Cock up on the tyre front.
They only had two in, so I've got to drop it off again tomorrow morning to have the rears changed.
Good news is, they've finally found an annoying rattle that has been there since February. An anti rattle rubber washer, on one of the brake caliper mounting pins, had disintegrated. It'd been driving me mad for months!

Pleased you got it sorted, but, something particularly perverse about an anti-rattle washer, causing a rattle

 

[Dirk]

Pleased you got it sorted, but, something particularly perverse about an anti-rattle washer, causing a rattle

Not really; an anti rattle washer that has disintegrated ain't really going to work, is it?

 

[ColinJ]

Watched a most interesting Winterwatch special about the 1963 winter last night, it had been on a few years ago but it was worth watching again. No doubt some on here will remember it from the time, not me, I wasn’t born until a few months after it finished. Amazing film footage of digging out houses/trains/cars, state of the art graphics, a view of the transport network pre Beeching and pre motorway, and an almost casual mention of lives lost. And an insight too into how the nation coped with a national catastrophe of a severity that hasn’t been matched until now. Quite fascinating.

I would have been 4 so don't remember it but dad often talked about it. Snow piled up at the sides of the road way over the height of your head.

I was 7 years old at the time and we moved to Coventry that year. There were playing fields at the end of our road and the fence round them must have been 8 ft high. I have a vague memory of the snowdrifts topping that fence!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Been out for a ride along the canal. Have fitted my mountain bike with Marathon studdies for the icy days to come. Today was cold and borderline icy but not quite.