The Retirement Thread

[Always last]

Retired 2 years ago at 65 .
Went self employed gardening odd jobs etc as needed a bit more money .
After being stuck working indoors all my life getting outdoors to work was so enjoyable.
To be honest i probably got to cycle run etc less than I did when I was working for a boss but felt fitter
as on my feet all day rather than sitting on my arse.
More time for my own garden and wife.
Grass now stopped growing so more time now to get out to the hills even if the weather is changing .
Wife gets pension in January so next year wind down a bit and get out on bike more .
The key is being fit enough to enjoy what you like while you can .
My head is still trying to adjust to it all as years of doing the same thing is hard to get out of your brain .

 

[classic33]

Well, well well.

Since yesterday we have no further business interests at all.

We have finally severed links with any vestigal links with any enterprise that we have ever been involved in.

Me (nigh on 66) and she (58) were pondering, over a bottle of Grand Marnier & Lilly O'Brien choc's at 2am this morning, whether this was the start of the final chapter of our life or not.

We landed on a 'no' as our current thinking is that post-business life there are two more chapters to go, basically 'active' and 'sedentary'.

What do you old gits think?

PS: will happily hold my hands up to any accusations of talking rollocks as apart from my skin getting more wrinkly over the years it has also gotten a lot thicker.

That's impossible, your skin gets thinner as you get older.

 

[welsh dragon]

I tend to make things, so I keep occupied own way or another. When I officially retire in March I want my own workshop

 

[Juan Kog]

Retired 2 years ago at 65 .
Went self employed gardening odd jobs etc as needed a bit more money .
After being stuck working indoors all my life getting outdoors to work was so enjoyable.
To be honest i probably got to cycle run etc less than I did when I was working for a boss but felt fitter
as on my feet all day rather than sitting on my arse.
More time for my own garden and wife.
Grass now stopped growing so more time now to get out to the hills even if the weather is changing .
Wife gets pension in January so next year wind down a bit and get out on bike more .
The key is being fit enough to enjoy what you like while you can .
My head is still trying to adjust to it all as years of doing the same thing is hard to get out of your brain .

Welcome , and the best of luck with this lot . It will be good to have another sane person on the thread .

 

[classic33]

Question time please people. Honest opinions not the usual guff I have to order the club medals for our Awards Night. Basically two choices:

Everyone gets the same medal with a cycling image in the centre and a small engraved box, for example, "2021 Road Race Points Champion"

OR

Everyone gets a plain medal engraved with, for example, "CCC Hill Climb Champion 2021" - the CCC is for Chorley Cycling Club but I doubt we could fit all this on. These would be boxed as well.

So what does the hive mind think?

C.C.C. across either the top or bottom, with the Points Champion on the opposite edge.

Possibly their names on the reverse.

 

[Dirk]

For those of you who have enjoyed Guy Ritchie films ( Lock Stock, Snatch etc).
Have you watched The Gentlemen?
I watched it this afternoon - thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a typical Ritchie film - extreme violence and language, great characters and dialogue, clever script and cinematography.
I thought Hugh Grant played a great character.
Worth a watch.
(Not for the easily offended though)

 

[classic33]

Can plckled eggs be sobered up

Haven't you tried?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Haven't you tried?

Best thing to do with pickled eggs is to remove them from the pickle
dry them gently with a paper towel
sprinkle them carefully with salt
then deposit them nicely in the bin

do not try to eat them

especially do not eat several if you plan on being in the vicinity of other people (or dogs) for several hours

 

[classic33]

Welcome , and the best of luck with this lot . It will be good to have another sane person on the thread .

If you have never experienced insanity, how do you know, and say, what sanity is?

 

[welsh dragon]

Welcome , and the best of luck with this lot . It will be good to have another sane person on the thread .

I wouldn't say we are sane. That's stretching the imagination bit is that

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Retired 2 years ago at 65 .
Went self employed gardening odd jobs etc as needed a bit more money .
After being stuck working indoors all my life getting outdoors to work was so enjoyable.
To be honest i probably got to cycle run etc less than I did when I was working for a boss but felt fitter
as on my feet all day rather than sitting on my arse.
More time for my own garden and wife.
Grass now stopped growing so more time now to get out to the hills even if the weather is changing .
Wife gets pension in January so next year wind down a bit and get out on bike more .
The key is being fit enough to enjoy what you like while you can .
My head is still trying to adjust to it all as years of doing the same thing is hard to get out of your brain .

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Welcome , and the best of luck with this lot . It will be good to have another sane person on the thread .

WHAT
who let a sane person on here

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Retired 2 years ago at 65 .
Went self employed gardening odd jobs etc as needed a bit more money .
After being stuck working indoors all my life getting outdoors to work was so enjoyable.
To be honest i probably got to cycle run etc less than I did when I was working for a boss but felt fitter
as on my feet all day rather than sitting on my arse.
More time for my own garden and wife.
Grass now stopped growing so more time now to get out to the hills even if the weather is changing .
Wife gets pension in January so next year wind down a bit and get out on bike more .
The key is being fit enough to enjoy what you like while you can .
My head is still trying to adjust to it all as years of doing the same thing is hard to get out of your brain .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my facebook page tonight.

 

[12boy]

Yes, it aint ANOTHER sane person, its A sane person. BTW, the reason pawl is so feisty may have something to do with Marmite, that acme of umame goodness. (Acme, not acne).
The checker line at the grocery store was 8 deep and a veritable 6'4" blonde goddess just in front of said,"Go to #4, they just opened." My question would be " Since she was facing straight ahead, how did she know I was gazing worshipfully at her posterior"? No wonder she sent me elsewhere.