The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

From my Facebook page this morning, lol

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem.
While they were there, the wife unfortunately passed away.
The undertaker told the husband,
"You can have her shipped home for $5,000 or, you can bury her here, in the Holy Land for $400."
What do you want to do?
The man thought about it and told him he wanted to have her shipped home.
The undertaker asked,
"Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife
home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $400?"
The man replied,
"Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead and I just can't take that chance."

 

[numbnuts]

The bin men "waste management facilitators" never came so it will stay outside until Monday not unless the cats, foxes and rats gets there first, well I'm not going to clean it up, I did it last time and didn't even get a thank you.

 

[Exlaser2]

Flu jabs done - in and out of the surgery in about 2 minutes. No Covid booster though.

The COVID booster problem has only just started. I think only the very oldest, most at risk and nhs front line workers are being done at the moment. Mrs exlaser is having hers on Monday .
The pharmacy she works at will be taking part in the wider COVID booster program but that’s not due to start until next month. At the moment they are flat out doing flu jabs . 😀

 

[Exlaser2]

The bin men "waste management facilitators" never came so it will stay outside until Monday not unless the cats, foxes and rats gets there first, well I'm not going to clean it up, I did it last time and didn't even get a thank you.

We used to have that problem but now all our waste goes into one of three wheely bins which are animal proof.
Must be more of a problem in America were you have animals like bears and raccoons that can lift lids 😀

 

[Dave7]

Sadness is when you drop a perfectly boiled egg on the kitchen floor............
.........even greater sadness is when the second one rolls off the plate as you try to catch the first.

😭

Now..... I am not happy with you!!!
I went into the kitchen, still laughing about your chucky eggs and promptly dropped a pot of trifle. The pot split......its surprising how far some custard and cream can go

 

[Dave7]

Flu jabs done - in and out of the surgery in about 2 minutes. No Covid booster though.

Our surgery told me they have no control over the booster....you have to wait for the NHS to contact you.

 

[numbnuts]

I've been for a little spin only 11 miles, but it was nice, I could have worn me shorts as it was quite warm out

 

[Dirk]

I've been for a little spin only 11 miles, but it was nice, I could have worn me shorts as it was quite warm out

That's a bit overdressed for you, isn't it?

 

[Dave7]

Joe Kidd
CInt Eastwood western.
Who was it on here that was planning to watch it ?
Did you ?
Did you enjoy it ?

I am just watching an old Michael Caine film......Harry Brown.
Watched it before but its a brilliant film.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have been out - decided to go up the canals and back via Dutton Lock because I reckon it will be too muddy to go that way in a while because the tow path is narrow and gets very muddy in places.
ALl went well until I got to a narrow bridge and my front wheel hit a wet stone which chucked it sideways on some wet mud - which chucked it further sideway and chucked me off onto the embankment
Lucky I fell off there - a foot or so further and I would have hit the bridge and/or landed on the concrete under the bridge!

Also tried a different route back and ended up not really knowing where I was - impressed with myself when I got home and looked at my route on Strava to discover that I took an almost direct route back in spite of not knowing exactly where I was

It was annoying at one point where I was on a main road which got bigger and bigger - the the pavement went off up a bit of a hill and behind a crash barrier - at which point they decided it was the right point to inform people that this is not a pavement but a shared cycle path.
Would have been nice to be told it was a cycle path when it started - wherever that was!!!!

 

[Dirk]

Joe Kidd
CInt Eastwood western.
Who was it on here that was planning to watch it ?
Did you ?
Did you enjoy it ?

I watched Joe Kidd last week.
Pretty average film and I've forgotten what it was about already.
Not one of Clint's finest, I would say.

 

[PaulSB]

Three or five minute eggs?

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3........as I said perfectly boiled, none of this 5 minute bouncing bomb stuff for me.

Got to be able to dip my soldiers in....

 

[PaulSB]

Joe Kidd
CInt Eastwood western.
Who was it on here that was planning to watch it ?
Did you ?
Did you enjoy it ?

I am just watching an old Michael Caine film......Harry Brown.
Watched it before but its a brilliant film.

I watched Joe Kidd and didn't think it was up to much really.

 

[Dave7]

I watched Joe Kidd last week.
Pretty average film and I've forgotten what it was about already.
Not one of Clint's finest, I would say.

Ha ha......each to his own eh. I thought it was brilliant.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We've been out this afternoon, not far, just down our local supermarket to get some stuff Bedworth Tesco didn't have yesterday, helped my Good Lady into her wheel chair and had a decent workout pushing her there and back, I'm glad I left my jumper off, I'd worked up a sweat by the time we'd got home, wheelchair pushing seems to give me a workout almost as good as a bike ride, especially round here where its not completely flat.