The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Mrs Tenkaykev and I might be applying for political asylum up there in a few years time. Just need to wait a few years for the independence vote and rejoining the EU😉

It’s asylum from midges and other assorted biting beasties that I need !

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Back from a murky wander, a loop through Braidburn Valley and Mortonhall. Very muggy. Started to brighten just as I got home.

 

[Mo1959]

Back from a murky wander, a loop through Braidburn Valley and Mortonhall. Very muggy. Started to brighten just as I got home.

I don’t mind a dry heat, but this humidity doesn’t agree with me. Barometer has jumped up and I think we are in for another decent settled spell.

 

[Tenkaykev]

It’s asylum from midges and other assorted biting beasties that I need !

I’m fortunate in that most beasties find me repellent, but I’ve seen a few YouTube clips and it looks dreadful! One chap was testing various midge repellent remedies and he was crawling with them😮
( I did once convince a friends wife that my immunity to being bitten was down to my vegetarianism, as being vegetarian/ vegan instilled an “ aura” that insects were attuned to ) 😁

 

[PaulSB]

Whereas I, on the other hand
Harvey elliot played the full 90 minutes and was excellent.

Good. Pleased for him as he seems a decent lad. I only saw snatches of him playing for Rovers but I could see the ability.

 

[Dirk]

Sunday lunch at the Crown was OK.

Beer was a bit iffy though.

Dropped into the Black Horse on the way back for a decent pint.

 

[ColinJ]

I have just been playing about on the excellent Trainsplit site, as suggested by @PaulSB a couple of weeks ago...

I was looking then at fares from Todmorden and Hebden Bridge to Exeter St Davids. I had already identified a saving of £12 by travelling from Todmorden rather than Hebden Bridge (roughly £98 vs £110). At the time, at short notice, there could have been a further saving of about £4 by using Trainsplit. I have just been looking at what would be possible with Advance booking. I usually prefer not to limit myself to specific trains but the savings are significant, so I might do that in future...

That's pretty good!

I stand by what I said about the fragmented UK rail system though... How does buying that ridiculous combination of tickets instead of one return ticket (to sit in the same seats on the same trains!) make any sense?

 

[12boy]

Drago, sorry for your loss, but not for the 7 great years he was your best bud.
Too windy here today to enjoy riding and fortunately there are other things to do. Only watering today will be my soaker system for the garden and some hand watering because it is too windy for sprinklers as well.
Rode this yesterday for a change of pace, and it was fun. Very twitchy compared to the Brompty, with its tiny wheelbase, but it has a wide gear range and climbs hills like a little goat.
Be well and safe.

 

[Chief Broom]

It’s asylum from midges and other assorted biting beasties that I need !

Jungle formulae works a treat, dont know how toxic it is to the user though cuz if you put it on your face and get some on your lips your lips go numb.....When the midges are really bad i think i can live with numb lips!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was just thinking that The Magic Roundabout seemed to be about a bunch of surreal stoned characters and was probably created by a bunch of surreal stoned characters!

I always reckoned they were on LSD when they wrote that.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I have just been playing about on the excellent Trainsplit site, as suggested by @PaulSB a couple of weeks ago...

I was looking then at fares from Todmorden and Hebden Bridge to Exeter St Davids. I had already identified a saving of £12 by travelling from Todmorden rather than Hebden Bridge (roughly £98 vs £110). At the time, at short notice, there could have been a further saving of about £4 by using Trainsplit. I have just been looking at what would be possible with Advance booking. I usually prefer not to limit myself to specific trains but the savings are significant, so I might do that in future...

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That's pretty good!

I stand by what I said about the fragmented UK rail system though... How does buying that ridiculous combination of tickets instead of one return ticket (to sit in the same seats on the same trains!) make any sense?

It is crazy. The amount of government subsidy to the rail network has tripled since privatisation and fares are 20% higher than in 1995 in real terms after allowing for inflation. Governments in Germany, the Netherlands and France are shareholders in the companies and parent companies running around a dozen UK rail franchises. The profits they take out help subsidise rail travel in those countries. ( source, fullfact.org, an independent, fact checking charity set up by a cross party group whose board includes representatives of different political parties and viewpoints. )

 

[ColinJ]

I should point out that I am not prepared to make multiple connections to save money on rail journeys - too much stress involved in that. The separate tickets I showed above would be for one local train and one long distance train each way and that is the minimum that I need for the journey. I wouldn't even have to change seats on the trains from Leeds -> Exeter & Exeter -> Leeds.

 

[BoldonLad]

It is crazy. The amount of government subsidy to the rail network has tripled since privatisation and fares are 20% higher than in 1995 in real terms after allowing for inflation. Governments in Germany, the Netherlands and France are shareholders in the companies and parent companies running around a dozen UK rail franchises. The profits they take out help subsidise rail travel in those countries. ( source, fullfact.org, an independent, fact checking charity set up by a cross party group whose board includes representatives of different political parties and viewpoints. )

Indeed. What intrigues me is, how come Germany, Netherlands, France have (effectively) Nationalised industries which not only run their own rail systems well, but, also, buy into ours, whilst we had, British Rail, who could not even run our rail system. Perhaps, we have something to learn from our European cousins?

 

[Dirk]

I always reckoned they were on LSD when they wrote that.

OK - own up.......how do you know what LSD is like?

 

[ColinJ]

OK - own up.......how do you know what LSD is like?

We all had it at the time...





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