The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Cooeee. Rather cold here at 0 deg. But it's sunny so that's a plus.

Stay safe folks

 

[Mo1959]

I see we have hours of election guff on tv today. They have even moved The Repair Shop and Pointless to BBC 2.......the cheek!

 

[oldwheels]

Supposed to be nice and sunny but it is currently overcast and has been raining.
Strangely my IPhone which I am sure I switched off seems to have lost about 30% of battery charge overnight. Being a bit dozy first thing I never notice if it was switched on when I got up.

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour tout le monde. Just got up and have nothing planned for today. Still cold outside and threatening to rain so will take Molly out before it does and will probably do some house cleaning to help pass the time away. A bike ride is out of a question in this weather.
Stay safe every body and keep being active.

 

[welsh dragon]

I see we have hours of election guff on tv today. They have even moved The Repair Shop and Pointless to BBC 2.......the cheek!

I didn't watch any of it

 

[Dave7]

Any word on your neighbour who had the stroke? Hope she makes a good recovery. No indications that it could have had anything to do with the Covid jab?

Apparently she is back home now.... maybe/hopefully it turned out not be a stroke ??
The ambulance was outside for ages before they "took her away" (I hate that phrase) so I assume they must have been convinced.

 

[Dave7]

I see we have hours of election guff on tv today. They have even moved The Repair Shop and Pointless to BBC 2.......the cheek!

I still have 14 hours of Prince Philips funeral to watch. I think I will alternate eg an hour of politics followed by a funeral hour etc etc.

 

[GM]

Morning all...Another one who had a restless night, a blooming police helicopter circling around about 1o/c kept me awake didn't get back to sleep till about 3o/c. Suppose I better get up and get showered, got a sort of busy day helping the boy out buying a couple of doors for the job he's doing.
Have a good day folks!

 

[Juan Kog]

Sorry, but stupid is as stupid does. A person's greed outweighs they're common sense and sometimes. They do get what they deserve.

With your understanding nature, have you considered being a Samaritans volunteer.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Good morning, world.
Sunny and dry today. Just as well, as this morning I shall mainly be trying to fix a leaky gutter on my garage, before tomorrow's promised rain.

This afternoon will be band practice in a sunny (hopefully!) garden, featuring the incompetent bass ramblings of yours truly.

 

[gavroche]

The rain beat me to it but Molly seem to be content to just sleep on the sofa for now. I must say that she did go out in the garden first thing so she is ok for a while.

 

[Dirk]

Nice and sunny here. Think I'll take doggie over the dunes. She's getting on a bit now - 15 - and spends most of the day sleeping, but she does enjoy the beach. It seems to bring out the puppy in her.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Replying to myself as i didn't actually answer the question asked " What do I think of it?"

I think it is an excellent E reader. It feels a bit strange but that is because I've been using a Kindle for so many years, and my current one which is a Kindle Voyage for about three years. The Kobo is larger and doesn't slip in to the pocket in the same way but it's not unwieldy. I like the larger screen. It has the same controls as the kindle, just not in the same places. The ability to borrow library books and download books from a variety of sources is the "Killer"feature.
There wasn't a mark on the refurb unit that I got, it looks as good as new. It came from the W.H.Smith outlet store on Ebay, and has 30 day no questions returns.

An update to my experience with the Kobo so far.
I'm very impressed, although it is initially not as intuitive as my Kindle, it is excellent for borrowing E books from the library or other online resources.
There's more goodness that I have since discovered. If i go in to the "Settings" menu then select "More" then there is a menu for "Beta Features" among the options are a Web Browser ( which I expect to be painfully slow due to the refresh rate of E Ink) , " Large Print Mode" which makes the typeface bigger than the largest size offered in the standard menu, "sketch Pad" which allows you to draw on screen and save the drawing in your Library, Sudoku, Solitaire, and a "Word Scramble game"
One thing that I have enabled is a feature called "Pocket" this is an App that is available for Android and IOS, plus as an extension for most of the major browsers. I've installed the extension in my Browser ( Brave ).
When I visit a website and find an interesting article I just click on the " Pocket" icon in the browser bar and the article is saved and appears automatically in my Kobo library next time I sync.
Very pleased to discover all of these extra goodies that I wasn't aware of when I purchased the Kobo.

 

[Dave7]

With your understanding nature, have you considered being a Samaritans volunteer.

She had a 12 week trial. She had to write her own script.....it went.......
"Sod off, its your own fault, don't bother me as I am very busy with important things".

 

[Dave7]

I have just re-checked bbc weather for today.
Nope, no rain this morning but 18%,chance after 1300 hrs.
So why is is p*ssing down