The Retirement Thread

[rustybolts]

I was a prison officer. I could have locked myself up!

Mo you can chain me up anytime !!

 

[numbnuts]

What a dull miserable day it has been I don't think it could be any worse, still I have finely got my goggle account and gmail sorted as it has been playing up for the last two days.

 

[oldwheels]

Wonder if my dad ever had any of yours....he was rather fond of a tammy. He used to have a red one he wore for hill walking and a few people stopped him and asked him if he was Tom Weir. Looked a bit like him with the tammy on.

If it was plain it was not one of ours. With a pattern of some kind or a name possibly. I remember Tom Weir, he lived at Gartocharn and his wife was a teacher. My wife had some contact with her once in her teaching days.

 

[Mo1959]

If it was plain it was not one of ours. With a pattern of some kind or a name possibly. I remember Tom Weir, he lived at Gartocharn and his wife was a teacher. My wife had some contact with her once in her teaching days.

Old photo in his hill walking days.

 

[oldwheels]

Oldwheels......good business venture and some good lookin women, too.

Our Head Girl Barbara caused a bit of confusion as some assumed she was our daughter which enraged my wife. Others thought she was my bit on the side tho' how they squared that with the fact she went off on purchasing trips with my wife and they were obviously on good terms I don't know. We did I suppose act a bit like a family group. Our favourite restaurant welcomed us always and we never had to queue.

 

[oldwheels]

Old photo in his hill walking days.

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I see the resemblance but the hat is not one of ours, probably hand knitted or on a domestic machine. Icelandic jersey I think or possibly Norwegian.

 

[JPBoothy]

My Del Boy business was rather different. This one was the originator of hats with names and logos. At that time nobody else was doing this niche market and we captured all the business going. Since we specialised it was easy to beat any competition and I also had a good contact in the surplus yarn market to purchase raw material.

I'm a bit of a Hat-aholic in the Winter so it sounds good to me and here's to a cold snap to keep business flourishing

 

[oldwheels]

I'm a bit of a Hat-aholic in the Winter so it sounds good to me and here's to a cold snap to keep business flourishing

Retired from that a few years ago.

 

[JPBoothy]

Retired from that a few years ago.

Okay, well enjoy your retirement and lets cancel that cold snap then

Although, I think I prefer the Frost (and a nice blue sky) to this constant wet stuff.

 

[Mo1959]

Okay, well enjoy your retirement and lets cancel that cold snap then

Although, I think I prefer the Frost (and a nice blue sky) to this constant wet stuff.

Watched Countryfile and it looks like a fair bit more wet stuff for the week ahead Very mild though.

 

[Paulus]

It's flat!

That's a problem with bottled ales, if they have been kept in a chiller it can kill the ale.

 

[12boy]

Just out of curiosity I looked up alternate names for knitted caps which I grew up calling ski caps, or if they were black with a rolled brim, watch caps. Also called beanies here. Never had heard of tammy. Undertand the canadians call them toques, whereas potheads called a hit off of a joint a toke. The ones with built in ear flaps we call "Peruvian hats". I like them under bike helmets although they make the helmet sit way up on the melon. Can't say I'm fond of the longer caps ones which some wear to look like a reservoir tip.

 

[classic33]

@12boy, this what you'd call a "Peruvian Hat"?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Thanks to everyone for the Birthday wishes. It wasn't the best birthday I've had, but under the circumstances it wasn't bad.

 

[Exlaser2]

Night night everyone plus a belated happy birthday to Dave r . 😀😀😀