The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

I'm all ready wearing glasses , don't forget riding a trike you are sat back and not over looking the bars like you are on a bike

Oh, of course - that's a problem that I had never considered!

 

[classic33]

We are fighting the good fight with spiders at the moment. We have some anti spider spray that Mr WD is spraying around at the moment. I also heard that stuff like lavender deters them as they don't like the smell. And basil and lemon balm is the same

Only if they walk on it, as they smell through their legs.

 

[classic33]

Oh, THERE you are!

My Internet was working at around 21:00 yesterday and then I went offline for a while to work on my puzzle game.

I have it adjusting itself to fit different screens. It does a 'best fit' calculation and scales itself up or down no matter how big or small the screen is, or what its aspect ratio is. That works fine.

I have a phone which is getting a bit old now. The game looks ok on it and plays well, so any more modern device should have no problem. Good.

Then a worrying thought struck me... What about those ugly notches and cut-outs that many modern phones have at the top of the screen? My phone doesn't have them so I use the whole screen for the game. I hadn't taken notches into account...

Time to go online and search for advice. No joy. Internet, are you there? Coo ee... It was no more. It had ceased to be. It was bereft of life; resting in peace. It was an ex-network!

I did the usual things but couldn't get it back. I only have an emergency 300 MB of data left on my phone to last me until the second week of October so I wasn't going to use that.

Oh well, time to watch another episode of Borgen on Netflix then. Hang on - no Netflix.

In that case, watch The Killing on iPlayer. Hang on - no iPlayer!

CycleChat? No!

YouTube? How!

Talk about being cut off in one's prime!

I watched a couple of things that I had saved on my Humax box and then went to bed.

It made me realise how important a decent broadband connection is to me. The last time that I was that cut off was on holiday in Wales a few years ago. That wasn't so bad because being in a new place was keeping me busy and I wasn't alone for a week or more.

Anyway... It was a relief to find that the problem has been resolved overnight!

And now I will throw off the comfort blanket of the Web to venture out for half an hour on my singlespeed bike. The Hunt for the Phantom Paper Pilferer aka Le Tour de Tod. And I need to score some drugs from my dealer... ***





*** Warfarin / Boots, silly!

You wouldn't have had a prime to cut off, it had already been done. Up the Creek and no paddle.

 

[welsh dragon]

Only if they walk on it, as they smell through their legs.

There's a joke in there somewhere i suspect

 

[welsh dragon]

The military were all around, leaving a clear path for that one.
You did go out and wave, they'd have seen you from that height.

At this height, we could see the whites of their eyes.. We have waved before now

 

[classic33]

At this height, we could see the whites of their eyes.. We have waved before now

Been down that area a few times and looking down at them flying below me.

 

[Dave7]

Our black bags are blue.

What colour are your blue bags ?

 

[Dave7]

Only if they walk on it, as they smell through their legs.

I knew a woman like that once

 

[welsh dragon]

Been down that area a few times and looking down at them flying below me.

When I was working in Newtown I would drive home and on one stretch the road is above the valley and I could look down at the planes going by

 

[welsh dragon]

I knew a woman like that once

I deliberately said nothing

 

[classic33]

What colour are your blue bags ?

Light Green(biodegradable) and mid green.
And the green tub is black.

 

[BoldonLad]

What do us retirees make of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club ? Mrs F enjoyed it but it didn’t do it for me.

I didn't understand what all the fuss was about, boring, I thought. Mrs @BoldonLad felt the same.

 

[oldwheels]

For a lot of people the BP goes up with the stress of a doctor/nurse taking it.
For me.....last time, it was high. We had a chat, she took it again and it was fine

Commonly known as " white coat syndrome".

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Commonly known as " white coat syndrome".

MAny years ago a doctor took my BP when I wasn;t expecting it - it was high
I asked him to try it again later on and after I had had a chance to calm down and breath slowly for a while
It was back to normal!

Last time they were worried about it they gave be a measurer to take home and I had to record the BP every hour or so

 

[pawl]

Now that's political!

please don’t ban me