The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

Come back from Barnstaple, 220 quid lighter and with a new dishwasher in the back of the car.
Went straight to the Aggi for a chip butties and a pint.
Will plumb the dishwasher in later after a nap.

I've never used a dish washer

 

[ColinJ]

There's still a lot of lead pipe about, we've still got some in the house.

Yes - the feed to this house in the cellar is still lead. The internal pipework is a mix of copper and plastic pipes.

The rest of the street seems to feed off the same lead pipe as this house because it goes through my cellar wall into the neighbour's cellar. I just looked it up - if that pipe is to be replaced then it is up to the householders to pay for it.

I will look into buying a drinking water filter when I get my pension.

 

[ColinJ]

You could fart for a week on that

I mentioned making a big veggie curry a few days ago...

When I was a student I used to make a huge veggie curry at the weekend, eat one portion and freeze the rest to eat during the week. I'm doing something similar today. I will get 6 generous portions from it.

It will include:

• A butternut squash
• 5 or 6 carrots
• 3 or 4 parsnips
• A medium-sized swede
• 125 g of green lentils
• a green pepper
• half a red pepper
• 2 leeks
• 2 hot chillies (I would put 5 or 6 in, but a friend is sharing with me and she has a more sensitive palate than me!)
• 6 - 8 cloves of garlic
• a piece of ginger
• 2 tins of chopped tomatoes
• 1 tin of chickpeas
• 1 tin of red kidney beans
• a couple of sticks of celery
• a scoop of mixed seeds

There may be one or two other vegetables to add. I'll see what I have in the cupboard.

Nobody picked up on my subtle comment at the end of the post...

Fortunately, it is very mild for this time of year.

So I can have a window open without freezing!

 

[ColinJ]

I've never used a dish washer

There was one here when I moved in and I never used that.

To make room for it, the previous tenants had moved the washing machine upstairs to the bathroom. That was a right pain because it made a lot of noise when churning and violently shook the bathroom floor when spinning. It alarmed me and annoyed the neighbours.

So, I gave the dishwasher away and moved the washing machine back down to the kitchen. My friend and I nearly put our backs out doing that. The washing machine was too bloody heavy so I took the cover off and removed a large concrete weight from the inside. The weight is stop the machine shaking itself to pieces when spinning. Great, but it meant the machine weighed about 85 kg. That's a big, heavy machine to lug down a narrow, steep staircase! I reassembled it in the kitchen before sliding the machine in to the space vacated by the dishwasher.

 

[Dave7]

There's still a lot of lead pipe about, we've still got some in the house.

As do we.
We got rid of approx 90% of it but the last bit would be a seriously big job so we left it.

 

[welsh dragon]

I do miss my dishwasher. 😢

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I do miss my dishwasher. 😢

Has Mr WD moved out?

 

[Dave7]

I've never used a dish washer

We got one when the 2 'kids' were at home. We got used to it.......probably don't really need it now but hey ho.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've never used a dish washer

I haven't either.

 

[Dirk]

I've never used a dish washer

We've had one since 1983. MrsD would divorce me if we didn't have one.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We've had one since 1983. MrsD would divorce me if we didn't have one.

When we were renovating the kitchen here it became obvious that we could have a washing machine or a dishwasher but we couldn't have both, so we plumped for the washing machine.

 

[Dave7]

Late lunch is ready. Yesterdays cottage pie didn't happen as I wasn't up to it so today I put the slow cooker on at 0800.
Mince (plus some steak)
Potatoes, carrots and onion.
Galic
Few other bits.
Just tasted it........very yummy.

 

[Dave7]

Welshie.......a tip for you..
You like lamb !!!!!
You have fields full of sheep!!!
Just take one leg (maybe the back left one).
Next week......same again but a different sheep .
The farmer will never notice, honestly.

 

[welsh dragon]

Has Mr WD moved out?

Mr WD doesn't do dishes

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Mr WD doesn't do dishes

He leaves it all for you then?