The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Change of plan.
I am knackered and going back to bed.
To quote a certain Yorkshire chap.... sithee later.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. Slightly longer lie, mug of coffee and out for a gentle stroll. It's still humid which I don't enjoy so just ambled along.

Half way through my fruit and fibre now. Nothing else planned apart from a wander round to the supermarket and maybe another short walk before the forecasted rain arrives in the afternoon.

I've got quite a lot of stuff to catch up on on TV if there's nothing else on this evening.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Woken by the sound of rain gently tapping on the caravan roof at 0600. Went back to sleep and woke up again at 0810.
Rain has stopped.
Off to Honiton to get some fuel for the CRV first thing, then might nip down to Branscombe for lunch.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

This is a bit wicked
From my facebook page this morning

 

[Mo1959]

I see from Strava that the girl along the road has just been for a spin up to St Fillans and back and averaged 17.9mph. Oh to be her age again

 

[ColinJ]

Change of plan.
I am knackered and going back to bed.
To quote a certain Yorkshire chap.... sithee later.

Sounds like a great plan but one similarly knackered me can't adopt. I have to make final preparations and set off to Devon. Thanks to SatNav tech though my map reading skills are not needed so I can snooze on the drive down.

House sitting service booked with pal who wants a change of scenery.

 

[Lee_M]

Hello. It's grey and miserable looking outside but warmer than that suggests.

Woke at 5.30 and have had a brew while reading the paper. I think I'm going to try for a doze now.

I went for a test at 6.00pm yesterday as I've felt a bit "off" and Mrs P says I've been coughing. Result due today. This can't be related to granddaughter as the timescale is too short. I'm sure I'm fine but felt I need to be sure for our granddaughter's sake.

I've mislaid a cheque for £27 from the DVLA - refund of Mrs P's VED. Annoying and I need to find it. Who sends out cheques these days?

No plans for the day and I can already feel the way today is heading.

They send cheques because they hope you'll lose it.

 

[Tenkaykev]

They send cheques because they hope you'll lose it.

I have an "App" from my Bank that lets me pay in a cheque just by taking a photo of it. It's really convenient on the rare occasion that I do receive a payment by cheque.

 

[classic33]

Change of plan.
I am knackered and going back to bed.
To quote a certain Yorkshire chap.... sithee later.

You spelt "sithi" wrong.

 

[gavroche]

I see from Strava that the girl along the road has just been for a spin up to St Fillans and back and averaged 17.9mph. Oh to be her age again

Yep, that the sort of things that only happens in dreams nowadays.

 

[ColinJ]

Well that was stressful!!! Final preparations for departure included pal having a shower before we go. Don't know what she did but water torrenting down through gap between plaster boards on new kitchen ceiling! Fortunately, the ceiling hasn't been skimmed yet so the water escaped through. I reckon she must have left tap running with plug in sink. Problem is, she is half deaf so didn't hear the water gushing OR me shouting upstairs. And me being half deaf too meant it took me a minute or so to notice down here.

That could have been a real pre-holiday downer!!!

 

[classic33]

Well that was stressful!!! Final preparations for departure included pal having a shower before we go. Don't know what she did but water torrenting down through gap between plaster boards on new kitchen ceiling! Fortunately, the ceiling hasn't been skimmed yet so the water escaped through. I reckon she must have left tap running with plug in sink. Problem is, she is half deaf so didn't hear the water gushing OR me shouting upstairs. And me being half deaf too meant it took me a minute or so notice down here.

That could have been a real pre-holiday downer!!!

Enjoy yourself.
Not too much though.

 

[Mo1959]

Back from the supermarket for a few things. I spied a Snickers peanut butter protein bar so bought one to have with my cuppa. Quite nice. Bit squidgy though so probably wouldn't be much good for a cycling jersey pocket in the current warm conditions.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I've recently acquired some new Bluetooth "earpods", the type that fit in your ear and are individual with no connecting cable. They're not " noise cancelling " ( I was considering those, but apart from the additional cost I don't like to feel completely isolated from my environment ) They do however cut out a great deal of the surrounding noise simply by virtue of the close fitting silicone ear tips. I know that my hearing is not very good, and I appear to have inherited my dad's poor hearing in his right ear. The earbuds have an App that you can use to analyse your hearing and it takes the results to tailor the sound output to your hearing profile. Using the App consists of sitting in a quiet place and then going through a series of tests where you press an on screen button when you can hear a tone, and release it when you can no longer hear it. It plays tones of different frequencies and you test each ear individually. Intrigued by this I then downloaded and installed a hearing test App and took a hearing test. That seemed a bit more sophisticated and the resulting audiogram confirms what i already knew, that the hearing in my right ear is much weaker than my left. The App also advises that as I used uncalibrated headphones, the results might not be accurate. I do however feel that it is a useful pointer and quite an interesting exercise.

 

[PaulSB]

I have an "App" from my Bank that lets me pay in a cheque just by taking a photo of it. It's really convenient on the rare occasion that I do receive a payment by cheque.

That I like. Excellent.