The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

it's very foggy here and I can hear the fog horns in the Solent

it is getting worse - ferry port at Southampton

 

[Tenkaykev]

They gone yet, midnight + 06 UTC?

They’re up there now. Impressive that they stream live footage from the first stage as it flips through 180 degrees, reenters the atmosphere and steers itself to a landing on an automatous ship in the middle of the ocean.
Prior to SpaceX, rockets costing many many millions were regarded as disposable as it was thought too difficult / impossible to land them. Watching the first stage slow from 100km in height and a speed of over 7000 KM/H to land precisely on the deck of a ship floating in the ocean is amazing.😎

 

[classic33]

it is getting worse - ferry port at Southampton
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Visibility still over 100 yards. Drive slowly and you'll not miss the ship.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Now watching a bloke over the road cutting a hedge. It’s a very big hedge. About 50 metres long by 3 metres high. He’s got a special step ladder with a single pole stabiliser. Hedge trimmer is on a very long pole. He’s doing it by eye and making a perfect job of it. I know if it was me doing it, the hedge would end up resembling the Lickey Hills

 

[Tenkaykev]

Now watching a bloke over the road cutting a hedge. It’s a very big hedge. About 50 metres long by 3 metres high. He’s got a special step ladder with a single pole stabiliser. Hedge trimmer is on a very long pole. He’s doing it by eye and making a perfect job of it. I know if it was me doing it, the hedge would end up resembling the Lickey Hills

The company logo isn’t the usual play on words I’ve come to expect. “ Evans Above” being one such local company.

 

[ColinJ]

£40+ / month sounds a lot. We are Northumbrian Water area. 4 bed detached house, two people living in it. Connected to mains drainage. £17/month.

Unfortunately, Yorkshire are renowned as one of the worst and most expensive. Yes we're on a water meter, 3 bed, 3 in the house. I'm looking forward to winter so we can stand in the garden when it's raining and not have to use the shower.

I pay nearly £41/mo with YW. Live alone, no meter. It might pay me to get one installed?

 

[numbnuts]

The fogs gone
I pay £22.20 water a month

 

[Mo1959]

I don't know how much we pay for water here. It's lumped in with the council tax and I never pay much attention. I don't think it's much.

I finally got myself out for a little trundle........not even quite 20 miles but it will do.

Just checked..........more than I thought. Works out around £37 per month on mine.

 

[GM]

Morning all... Lovely and sunny here, just back from a dog walk. Sitting on the patio with a mug of tea thinking about what to do first, we're off to Norfolk in the morning and a few jobs need doing before we go.
Apart from the Laithwaites wine order the other day I ordered 6 reds from Waitrose, when it arrived yesterday a miniature complimentry bottle of Australian whiskey was in the parcel. I'm not a whiskey drinker but wifey is and using some of it in the Tiramisu she's cooking.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I popped outside when I saw Bob, a chap I recognised from the pub walking past complete with a green garden waste type bag and one of those “ litter picker “ claws. He had a green hi- viz style waistcoat bearing the legend “ community volunteer “ . It’s a council run scheme, once a month you meet up and tidy up the detritus from the pavement/ gutters around your locale. We do still get the road sweeper coming round, but with a fair bit of on street parking they’re limited in effectiveness. While having a natter with him another neighbour stopped to chat, we were admiring the good job that the hedge cutters had done when she told me that the chap who cuts her friends hedge wears stilts to help with reaching the more awkward bits. Bob then told me that when he worked on the buildings, some of the ceiling plasterers used stilts. Who’d have thought that there’s a load of stilt walkers out there. 😮🤔.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Done a shopping run
started at the farm shop then Tesco for other stuff.
Comparing prices - the farm shop stuff is clearly better - but 2-3 times the price
I was going to get sausages but they only had ones that are the same as the butcher on the high street sells - and again far more expensive

I will see if NextDoor people know of any other farm shops - possibly a less posh one

 

[Dirk]

The Eagle has landed.

All set up and off down the pub.

 

[Dirk]

The char grilled curried Tiger prawns were very nice.

 

[Sterlo]

I pay nearly £41/mo with YW. Live alone, no meter. It might pay me to get one installed?

Definitely if you live on your own, hope you have better luck than my Mother, we had a hell of a battle to get them to fit one for her, took about 8 months wrangling before they finally relented, but she's seeing the benefit.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

It’s turned out very nice indeed here, lots of sun and quite warm out of the wind. Did a circuit of the reservoirs from Balerno, not many birds to be seen but a beautiful early autumn day nevertheless