The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

And the ‘B’ in the Rolls-Royce RB-211 and other such engines also stands for their Barnoldswick site, the jet engine was originally being developed there by Rover.

 

[Dave7]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

I believe it is BARN-ALDS-WICK
might be completely wrong though

 

[Tenkaykev]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

Bawick?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning folks.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning fellow retirees,
Our Coved tests arrived yesterday, mine was completed and returned, Mrs Tenkaykev got lateral flow tests which showed negative. The mystery of being “ pinged “ has been solved, it wasn’t our cafe stop on Sunday where we sat outside in the fresh air, it is our neighbours.
They’re lovely people with a couple of daughters of University age. One daughter was diagnosed with Covid on Wednesday, and her mum on Thursday. Hubby and other daughter are negative so far. We share a party wall and the Bluetooth from our phones are able to “ see” each other resulting in the alert.
So all is back on track for our monthly visit to the Black Bear, and we’ve booked Sunday lunch at the local pub 👍
Stay safe folks

 

[welsh dragon]

Morning all. Well it's the weekend again and of course it's started hissing down as well.

Telly And pottering day for me I think.

Stay safe folks.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, another day of thundery showers and Olympics for me, with a side serving of the Arctic Tour of Norway

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. Mrs P has a bad, bad cough and woke me in the middle of the night. Eventually managed to sleep for another three hours.

Today we return to Ewood Park. I haven't seen Rovers play since March 20th 2021. Haven't followed much either. From the little I've gathered there have been a lot of squad changes. In terms of resources there's 3-4 clubs we struggle to compete with, the rest we're probably on par with so just a question of playing ability. Got to be WBA as champions?

We shall see. I don't expect much other than watching and enjoying the game with my lad. Can't beat that. It's going to be interesting to see who still goes, sadly for many reasons.

It's wet and windy! 💨💧

 

[PaulSB]

Oh yes. Podium places still up for grabs in the Barnoldswick Olympics. No one out of the blocks yet ........😄

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Oh yes. Podium places still up for grabs in the Barnoldswick Olympics. No one out of the blocks yet ........😄

How about Bark ? Complete guess

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Off to Barnstaple this morning for a bit of shopping.
Not much else to do today.

 

[PaulSB]

Until someone tells you most people pronounce Barnoldswick as "bar-noldz-wick" or "baa-nolds-wik".

In Lancashire it's "baa-lik"

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Carer was late this morning, ten past nine instead of twenty five to seven, she was saying they had seven extra people to do this morning and two of the carers weren't in. Ironing to do this morning.

 

[Dirk]

Anyone noticed the GB cycling team are riding bikes made by Hope Lotus?

Hope are based in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Gold medal to anyone who can pronounce Barnoldswick.......no googling

Phonetic answers.......

Sounds like a load of baallicks to me.