The Retirement Thread

[rustybolts]

I heard that the NINE LADIES DANCING have been waylaid ( see what I did there) by the ten lords a leaping and are very satisfied, except for one disconsolate Lord who was rejected by the ladies because he had no hand sanitizer

 

[BoldonLad]

I have never actually seen anyone buy a pickled egg, and none of my friends have either.

Used to eat them (pickled eggs) all the time, in my youth (not with fish and chips).

Haven't had one in many, many years, you have made me want to try one now!

 

[oldwheels]

Having been a s**t stirrer*, I can say the fella driving the vehicle got paid more than I did.

*Not a job to be doing if you're expecting a lift back home.

Some of the students at Auchencruive Agricultural College were involved in an experimental silage scheme with different types of silage. Personally I do not mind the smell of silage but these guys in one instance were ejected from the bus on the way home from college because of the smell from their clothes which they were not aware of having been immersed in it so to speak. The other passengers objected as did the driver and conductress.

 

[oldwheels]

I love old fashioned manners and courtesy. It's lovely to see a man walking on the outside on pavements and the older men giving a little tip of their hat, etc.

I don't generally have a hat to tip but I cannot stop myself from walking on the outside of the pavement. It just does not feel comfortable otherwise.

 

[screenman]

I don't generally have a hat to tip but I cannot stop myself from walking on the outside of the pavement. It just does not feel comfortable otherwise.

You and me on that one.

 

[Juan Kog]

Used to eat them (pickled eggs) all the time, in my youth (not with fish and chips).

Haven't had one in many, many years, you have made me want to try one now!

UUUUURH YUCK a pickled egg has got be one of the most disgusting things I have eaten.
Many years back on a visit to family in Lincolnshire I went for an early evening drink with BiL in the very quiet village pub , on the bar was a large jar of pickled eggs . Well BiL persuaded me to try one,landlady said it was on the house. It took several pints of Batemans to clear the taste.

 

[oldwheels]

I have never actually seen anyone buy a pickled egg, and none of my friends have either.

I rather like pickled eggs and have had jars of them from a supermarket, probably Tesco.

 

[welsh dragon]

Pickled egg

 

[Dirk]

Dear God it's come to this in lockdown!
Sat here watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with MrsD.
Having a couple of beers to anaesthetise myself.
It started off quite well, but it's just slipped into the realms of fantasy.

 

[oldwheels]

Day started dryish but a brisk wind so out on the trike for a jaunt. More traffic than usual possibly a producers market in Dervaig looking at the vehicles. The only one to roar past with no acknowledgement had a personalised number plate with TOB built in.
Now raining as forecast and Calmac putting out amber warnings for 2 days.
The organisers of the car racing in October who do not live here have announced the closure of many roads in the north of the island on a Friday and Saturday. School kids will not be able to get home and any business travellers and shoppers severely disrupted. The local car club were not consulted and are not pleased. How not to win friends and demonstrates the contempt such people have for the peasants who actually live here. Not an uncommon attitude.
Holiday homes are filling up with people from London in one instance and a house not far from me has new arrivals from Glasgow. I think a lockdown is inevitable in January. We have more cases here than imagined and it is not hard to see how infection gets here.

 

[BoldonLad]

UUUUURH YUCK a pickled egg has got be one of the most disgusting things I have eaten.
Many years back on a visit to family in Lincolnshire I went for an early evening drink with BiL in the very quiet village pub , on the bar was a large jar of pickled eggs . Well BiL persuaded me to try one,landlady said it was on the house. It took several pints of Batemans to clear the taste.

So, not all bad then, a good excuse to have several pints (as if an excuse was needed) ....

 

[Mo1959]

Some of the students at Auchencruive Agricultural College were involved in an experimental silage scheme with different types of silage. Personally I do not mind the smell of silage but these guys in one instance were ejected from the bus on the way home from college because of the smell from their clothes which they were not aware of having been immersed in it so to speak. The other passengers objected as did the driver and conductress.

I quite like the smell of silage

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Our eldest lad has just posted this old piece of film on my facebook page, its very good.

 

[pawl]

Pickled eggs.What have they been plckled in? How do you sober them up.?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I quite like the smell of silage

I like the smell of new mown grass.