The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I am the bottle washer and cleaner

Is that Chief Bottle Washer and Cleaner though?

 

[classic33]

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.

Would that have been one of the ultrasonic controls?
If we had the window open we could do similar with the neighbours telly. Knocking it off partway through a football match if they were shouting.

 

[classic33]

So good morning from a bright, autumnal and sunny Lancashire........geez it's chilly.

Cycling this morning for the first time in a week. This is a good, though probably cold, thing.

50 big ones for our house this month.

A bargain. Who bought it?

 

[Juan Kog]

I’ve had my booster, vaccination centre is at an Asda branch so parking was easy. 25 minutes from parking car to driving away. Only problem,I think the person who vaccinated me was a vet from a farm animal practice. OUCH . .

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I’ve had my booster, vaccination centre is at an Asda branch so parking was easy. 25 minutes from parking car to driving away. Only problem,I think the person who vaccinated me was a vet from a farm animal practice. OUCH . .

If he says he is going to take your temperature


RUN!!!

 

[classic33]

I have had duck eggs. I liked them. Slightly stronger flavour.

Shame you don't seem to see them in supermarkets. Co-op certainly doesn't have them. Not sure about Aldi.

There's a butcher in the market, here, that does duck eggs, and when available ostrich eggs.

 

[Exlaser2]

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.

To make matters worse mrs exlaser has her own car which she uses to go to work in ,which is also three years old has 14000 miles on the clock .😂
The thing is we live in Coventry , but the sailing club is leamington as are Mrs exlasers parents . My mum was in sheltered accommodation in Warwick( the last few months I was going over to or three times a week instead of the once I had been doing) and our daughter was volunteering three days a week in Warwick for the last 18 months too. Each of these journeys is a 20+ mile round trip and even though some of the trips could be rounded together, the miles soon add up . Then if you add on holidays , travelling to and from sailing open meetings etc you soon get to 10000 miles.
I am hoping now that my mum has passed away and my daughter has got a job working for Peugeot customer service in the old Butts collage and no longer needs a lift, my mileage will drop considerably 😀

 

[classic33]

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.

At one stage, for three years, I was doing a 1,000 miles a month on the bike.

 

[classic33]

I’ve had my booster, vaccination centre is at an Asda branch so parking was easy. 25 minutes from parking car to driving away. Only problem,I think the person who vaccinated me was a vet from a farm animal practice. OUCH . .

Very few injections in the shoulder for farm stock, most go in the rear half.
You never dropped yer trousers in the car park at Asda, did you?

 

[Juan Kog]

Very few injections in the shoulder for farm stock, most go in the rear half.
You never dropped yer trousers in the car park at Asda, did you?

Ho Ho. My reference to vet was a comment on the technique or lack of , rather than the part of the body injected.

 

[classic33]

Ho Ho. My reference to vet was a comment on the technique or lack of , rather than the part of the body injected.

You did drop them!!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Would that have been one of the ultrasonic controls?
If we had the window open we could do similar with the neighbours telly. Knocking it off partway through a football match if they were shouting.

I can't remember now.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

To make matters worse mrs exlaser has her own car which she uses to go to work in ,which is also three years old has 14000 miles on the clock .😂
The thing is we live in Coventry , but the sailing club is leamington as are Mrs exlasers parents . My mum was in sheltered accommodation in Warwick( the last few months I was going over to or three times a week instead of the once I had been doing) and our daughter was volunteering three days a week in Warwick for the last 18 months too. Each of these journeys is a 20+ mile round trip and even though some of the trips could be rounded together, the miles soon add up . Then if you add on holidays , travelling to and from sailing open meetings etc you soon get to 10000 miles.
I am hoping now that my mum has passed away and my daughter has got a job working for Peugeot customer service in the old Butts collage and no longer needs a lift, my mileage will drop considerably 😀

I can see how the mileage built up.

 

[ColinJ]

At one stage, for three years, I was doing a 1,000 miles a month on the bike.

I've never averaged that and I wouldn't even try up here now - the combination of increasing traffic levels, crappy Yorkshire/Lancashire weather, and me slowing down due to age/illness would put me off. About half that would be a more realistic target for me.

I used to average ~1,100 km/700 miles on my 2-week cycling holidays in Spain but the weather was (generally) better and I'd be very tired by the time I got home. (I'd need a holiday to recover from the holiday! )

 

[Dave7]

Very few injections in the shoulder for farm stock, most go in the rear half.
You never dropped yer trousers in the car park at Asda, did you?

I dropped my trousers in the Asda car park last week........ the reaction was interesting