The Retirement Thread

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gavroche

Getting old but not past it
Location
North Wales
Mrs Tenkay just looked out of the window and saw something lying in the back garden. With the stormy weather there’s been quite a few gulls headed inland and from time to time they drop random bits of food, quite often slices of white bread!
I wandered out to tidy up and saw that it was a fillet of fish, possibly Cod looking at the size and texture. The mind boggles at how it got there and the fact that it was almost intact. Another possibility is that a cat brought it into our garden, though why it wasn’t eaten is beyond me.
Fish and chips for dinner then?
 

Mo1959

Legendary Member
Decided on the bike rather than a walk. About 0 degrees when I left, rising to 1 by the time I got back. Main roads well gritted but everything else very icy and with a covering of snow. This looks like this will be the case right through until the start of next week, I expect to be making good use of my studded mtb.
Looks to be more of the same well into next month. Very cold but mostly dry. Definitely not cycling weather for me, so will continue walking and jogging.
 
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I've been out for a bimble this morning, only a short one, 42 miles, but having not ridden for almost a week it was nice to get out and stretch my legs. I rode the short route out to Hatton and then took a longer route home, rode past Hatton Country World then turned right to ride through Lowsenford, then past Packwood House and Badesley Clinton, then through Chadwick End and on to Balsall Common and home. A cold grey morning with a strong cold wind and very soggy under foot with a lot of the smaller lanes covered in debris and a couple of them flooded. Thats another good winter morning out on the bike.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I've been out for a bimble this morning, only a short one, 42 miles, but having not ridden for almost a week it was nice to get out and stretch my legs. I rode the short route out to Hatton and then took a longer route home, rode past Hatton Country World then turned right to ride through Lowsenford, then past Packwood House and Badesley Clinton, then through Chadwick End and on to Balsall Common and home. A cold grey morning with a strong cold wind and very soggy under foot with a lot of the smaller lanes covered in debris and a couple of them flooded. Thats another good winter morning out on the bike.
No snow, Dave? I just saw the news and they were reporting snow nearby in Birmingham.
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
Tour of Dartmoor done this morning, dropping off at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath for a pint of Dragon's Breath and pasty & chips for lunch.

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gavroche

Getting old but not past it
Location
North Wales
Looks to be more of the same well into next month. Very cold but mostly dry. Definitely not cycling weather for me, so will continue walking and jogging.
Lucky you to have a choice. Hopefully the news for my daughter will be good on Wednesday as I need to go home next week and , besides some things needed to attend to, reunite with my bikes too.
 

12boy

Guru
Location
Casper WY USA
Dirk, my pooch used to be terrified of thunder so we got her a "thunder shirt". Now she's gone deaf she no longer needs it. Dogs can be so attuned to rituals and our nonverbal cues it took a while to figure out she had lost her hearing.
Tit bit nipply this morning...-14 C. Snow off and on again for the next couple of days, the high will get up to 0C by Thursday. Today will be taken up with a lung tap for Mrs 12, who has a lot of fluid in her left lung and has been very short of breath. Apparently, that procedure is no biggie, but I am concerned about the lung fluid analysis showing cancer cells. When we saw the Doc last week she said only "been a little short of breath" so I set him straight as to what that meant. Nobody likes a complainer but you gotta be straight with the Doc.
Probably tomorrow a ride will be possible with studded snows if stays cold enough. Lots of times new snow that is dry from being very cold is so much easier to ride on than after the thaw and refreeze cycles that leave sheets of ice and bumpy frozen messes. Cutting through 4-5 inches of fresh new snow is such a treat.
Like Mo, I will have to fill in with walks when cycling isn't fun anymore. I just may order some bike tire studs and install them on some hiking boots so icy surfaces won't be a problem. And like you, Mo, I miss my dad. I would love to be able to talk to the dad he was before he became less lucid in his last years.
Be well and safe....
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Fish and chips for dinner then?
I am pretty sure we once had cat food for an evening meal.
Farmer and wife had been to the Highland Show and came back with a free sample tin of cat food which was left on a kitchen shelf. Some time after we had some sort of fishy mixture but the family were going out somewhere so did not eat with us as usual.
Afterwards we noticed the tin of cat food had vanished. I have often wondered.
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
I am pretty sure we once had cat food for an evening meal.
Farmer and wife had been to the Highland Show and came back with a free sample tin of cat food which was left on a kitchen shelf. Some time after we had some sort of fishy mixture but the family were going out somewhere so did not eat with us as usual.
Afterwards we noticed the tin of cat food had vanished. I have often wondered.

Did you feel the need to defecate in neighbours gardens after that experience? ;)
 
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Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Just got back from another dog walking session.
The world and their wives, plus kids in their nice clean shoes and clothing were out trying to avoid the mud and excess water draining across the fields.:stop:
Turkey, ham and sweetcorn pie with peas and carrots for lunch. Now I am full up again. Only had an apple for breakfast:okay:
It's getting dark now so time to settle down and have a whiskey whilst MrsP watches some drivel on the telly.
 
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