The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Miserable wet chilly day. Need to get down to the shop before food supplies run out but no use going until tomorrow morning as the lorry will not be unloaded yet.
My Macbook has been updated to Big Sur with unforseen consequences. The EpsonStylus 415 I have which is very old and has been uninstalled as part of the update. Cannot print and so far cannot seem to get it reinstalled. There are things I want to print but since it is a cable connection cannot print from anything else. IPad has no USB port. No point in ordering just now so need to wait for a couple of weeks till the parcel services calm down a bit.

I'm lucky in that my Brother Laser printer carried on working after the upgrade to Big Sur.
Check out " Gutenprint" it seems to be able to fix a lot of compatibility issues.

https://piunikaweb.com/2020/11/24/m...rinting-function-on-mac-possible-workarounds/

 

[gavroche]

Good very late morning fellow retirees. Been up at least 1.5 hour and walked Molly in the wind and rain....................again. It never seem to stop.
My granddaughter's car has decided to blow the head gasket so guess who is taking her to work later? She is getting her new car ( second hand) on January 1st. Her pathetic father won't insure her on her mother's car till then cos he is too tight. They are going through a divorce at the moment but he is still her dad. The extra premium is only £45 and the guy is actually loaded. I offered to pay it just to shame him.
Glad to say my wife is doing very well and so is our daughter so I am planning to go back to Wales in the new year , for a few days , as I need to sort out a few things at home. My wife will stay down here till then.
Enjoy your day every body.

 

[Mo1959]

Good very late morning fellow retirees. Been up at least 1.5 hour and walked Molly in the wind and rain....................again. It never seem to stop.
My granddaughter's car has decided to blow the head gasket so guess who is taking her to work later? She is getting her new car ( second hand) on January 1st. Her pathetic father won't insure her on her mother's car till then cos he is too tight. They are going through a divorce at the moment but he is still her dad. The extra premium is only £45 and the guy is actually loaded. I offered to pay it just to shame him.
Glad to say my wife is doing very well and so is our daughter so I am planning to go back to Wales in the new year , for a few days , as I need to sort out a few things at home. My wife will stay down here till then.
Enjoy your day every body.

Glad things are improving. Health worries are bad enough at the best of times but must be so much worse just now.

 

[dickyknees]

Miserable wet chilly day. Need to get down to the shop before food supplies run out but no use going until tomorrow morning as the lorry will not be unloaded yet.
My Macbook has been updated to Big Sur with unforseen consequences. The EpsonStylus 415 I have which is very old and has been uninstalled as part of the update. Cannot print and so far cannot seem to get it reinstalled. There are things I want to print but since it is a cable connection cannot print from anything else. IPad has no USB port. No point in ordering just now so need to wait for a couple of weeks till the parcel services calm down a bit.

A bit drastic but doable, roll back to Catalina OS.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/downgrade-macos-3581872/

 

[oldwheels]

A bit drastic but doable, roll back to Catalina OS.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/downgrade-macos-3581872/

As you say a bit drastic so will leave that as a last option. While I am reasonable competent with computers I also know my limitations.

 

[BoldonLad]

After my first wife had seen the film jaws she refused to even paddle in the sea.and that was at Skegness

My youngest son, about 5 or 6 at the time, would not even walk along the promenade at the coast, after watching jaws!

He was then, (and still is, at 46), a good swimmer.

 

[Mo1959]

As you say a bit drastic so will leave that as a last option. While I am reasonable competent with computers I also know my limitations.

Does it not let you go into the printer settings and maybe update the drivers?

 

[oldwheels]

I'm lucky in that my Brother Laser printer carried on working after the upgrade to Big Sur.
Check out " Gutenprint" it seems to be able to fix a lot of compatibility issues.

https://piunikaweb.com/2020/11/24/m...rinting-function-on-mac-possible-workarounds/

I did see that when I was ferreting around but may try later. It seems I am far from alone with this problem.

 

[Dave7]

Anybody watch "My Yorkshire Family".
A fascinating program. Husband (aged 60) wife (aged 40) are sheep farmers. They have 9 children.... yes 9!!! . All the kids, including the tots, get stuck in AND they all seem to love each other.
Well worth watching imo

 

[oldwheels]

Does it not let you go into the printer settings and maybe update the drivers?

It does go into printer settings but it appears there are no updated drivers for the updated Mac software
Lots of complaints on line about this I now find.

 

[Dave7]

My youngest son, about 5 or 6 at the time, would not even walk along the promenade at the coast, after watching jaws!

He was then, (and still is, at 46), a good swimmer.

He would be an even better swimmer if a shark was chasing him

 

[ColinJ]

Yes, @ColinJ I meant to say this to you. One of my tactics is to run through every clue quickly, the obvious ones usually get answered straight off, then go back to those which now have letters and finally put it down for a while. Poring over an individual clue can make it harder.

I definitely do the background processing thing. Many times I have got completely stuck on a crossword in the evening, put it to one side and then finished it in 2 minutes the following morning.

Even though the crosswords I do haven't been as hard as the Guardian, Times etc. ones I start to notice a few different styles over the months.

Anybody watch "My Yorkshire Family".
A fascinating program. Husband (aged 60) wife (aged 40) are sheep farmers. They have 9 children.... yes 9!!! . All the kids, including the tots, get stuck in AND they all seem to love each other.

They definitely don't have a TV...!

As for swimming... I used to go regularly. I learned at school when I was 8 or 9. We used to go to Livingstone Rd baths - is that pool still open, @dave r ?

Coventry then built a 50 metre pool which I went to every Saturday with my best mate. I got very confident in the water. I used to throw a penny in at one end, walk to the far end, then dive in and swim the length underwater to pick it up. One time I did 2 lengths underwater but that got a bit scary for the final 10-15 metres so I was reluctant to do that again.

I wasn't keen on diving from high up though. I went up onto the first platform (3 metres?) and it took me about 30 minutes to pluck up the courage to jump off. One of my schoolfriends was quite happy to go up to the top diving board and fling himself off that!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Considering that farmers are getting practically nothing for wool, it amazes me as to how it can be so expensive to buy.

Clear (south-western) horizon is best

Yep, that’s where we were looking. But the Pentland Hills were in the way. Their proximity isn’t usually something to complain about

 

[PaulSB]

You trust and plan your week around the weather forecast .

Yeah! Really!! Generally I ride Monday/Wednesday/Friday with the same core group of three friends - under normal circumstances there's around 30 other people who dip in and out. This year we deliberately limited this to 7 others who we know very well and trust. Sunday night we check how it's looking and decide yes/no for Monday, if Monday is bad we opt for Tuesday etc or if it looks bad through till Wednesday we start to plan for Thursday - it's very fluid but we use the Met Office a lot, often making a final decision around 8.00/8.15 am for a 9.30 meet up

 

[Juan Kog]

Yeah! Really!! Generally I ride Monday/Wednesday/Friday with the same core group of three friends - under normal circumstances there's around 30 other people who dip in and out. This year we deliberately limited this to 7 others who we know very well and trust. Sunday night we check how it's looking and decide yes/no for Monday, if Monday is bad we opt for Tuesday etc or if it looks bad through till Wednesday we start to plan for Thursday - it's very fluid but we use the Met Office a lot, often making a final decision around 8.00/8.15 am for a 9.30 meet up

That’s organised , but then you are CC secretary. I have been lone cycling since March , and some days I struggle to organise my own lone departure on time.