The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

He leaves it all for you then?

I am the bottle washer and cleaner

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I am the bottle washer and cleaner

Thats sad, does he do any chores?

 

[Sterlo]

I am the bottle washer and cleaner

As it should be

 

[Exlaser2]

Afternoon all . So far I have spent my birthday , shopping, and sanding and staining a window frame .
Living the retirement dream on my birthday 😂😂😀.

Re car mileage. My current car will be three years old in January and it will have 34,000 miles on it . I’ve been retired for the last two years and still managed to put 10,000 miles on it in each of those years.
I just don’t know how you all do so few miles , do you just cycle everywhere ? Even for your hols ? 😂😂😀😀

 

[numbnuts]

I have to do everything myself.......it was like that when I was married

 

[welsh dragon]

As it should be

Good job you are nowhere near me

 

[welsh dragon]

Afternoon all . So far I have spent my birthday , shopping, and sanding and staining a window frame .
Living the retirement dream on my birthday 😂😂😀.

Re car mileage. My current car will be three years old in January and it will have 34,000 miles on it . I’ve been retired for the last two years and still managed to put 10,000 miles on it in each of those years.
I just don’t know how you all do so few miles , do you just cycle everywhere ? Even for your hols ? 😂😂😀😀

My car is 10 years old and only has 32,000 miles on it.

 

[Sterlo]

Good job you are nowhere near me

I'm not scared, I'll move closer, as long as the missus lets me when I've done all of the housework.

 

[ColinJ]

I just don’t know how you all do so few miles , do you just cycle everywhere ? Even for your hols ? 😂😂😀😀

I think my total distance covered last year was less than 3,000 km (around 1,850 miles) and around 90% of that was on the bike and 9% on foot. The missing 1% was by train before the lockdowns started.

Apart from one long pre-lockdown ride, everything was in about a 24 km (15 mile) radius of Todmorden.

 

[Dave7]

I have to do everything myself.......it was like that when I was married

Do you even have to switch your own tv on?

 

[ColinJ]

Do you even have to switch your own tv on?

I remember a friend buying a TV which had a remote control back in the 1970s. I thought he was incredibly lazy at the time!

Imagine now having to walk over to the TV every time that you wanted to change channel or adjust the volume...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I just don’t know how you all do so few miles , do you just cycle everywhere ? Even for your hols ? 😂😂😀😀

How do you do so many miles? At the moment my Good Lady is wheelchair bound and can't get in the car, This means the car only gets used for essential trips, even when she was fully fit we were only doing around 5000 miles a year.

 

[Sterlo]

Forgot to check my Premium Bonds this month, and the winner is...not me , mind you, I did win £50 last month and I haven't got loads of bonds so can't complain really.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I remember a friend buying a TV which had a remote control back in the 1970s. I thought he was incredibly lazy at the time!

Imagine now having to walk over to the TV every time that you wanted to change channel or adjust the volume...

I remember the early TV remotes, I was working for a small Radio and TV firm at the time, they gave the lads some interesting faults to sort out, like the bloke with a remote supplied with his TV that stopped changing channel on his TV and instead changed channels on his neighbours TV.

 

[Sterlo]

I bet this will take you all back. I remember we had a Rediffusion cable TV, where you had to turn a switch near the window to change channels, not that I was allowed to as a child.