The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Morning. Very breezy here all night ( notice I didn't say windy) and now it's raining.


Nothing planned for today. Might play around with a project or 2

Stay safe peeps

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Good day had yesterday. In the Aggi for lunch with our friends, when one of the locals bought our table a round of drinks for my birthday.
Not many fireworks here last night - just a few from a house across the way. Doggie wasn't bothered by them.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning folks,
Quite a lot of firework activity locally, there’s a house a couple of hundred metres away that had a firework party which went on until nine. We heard a helicopter and thought it was about to land in our garden as the noise was so loud, went outside and looked up to see the Air Ambulance on descent to a local park a short distance away 🙁
Stay safe folks 👍🌞

 

[Chief Broom]

Morning folks i have a pulse so thats good going to be raining all day booo i have an umbrella stashed away somewhere might give it a whirl when i go for a walk. My neighbour has acquired another horse, its starting to look like a ranch out there she collects horses like some folk have bikes! Fair play to her though the last 2 horses she saved were awaiting a nasty fate in a spannish bull ring or glue factory.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
A grey, cloudy start to the day here.
Plenty of stuff to do here. Dog walking, domestics, and then a bimble on the bike for some essentials, including a stop at the bakers stall in the market for some of their pasties and sausage rolls .
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, currently dry and windy, forecast wet and windy shortly.
Huge volume of fireworks all evening yesterday but miraculously they stopped about 10.

 

[gavroche]

Salut les amis (es). Very windy here at the moment and rain expected later. Flu jab booked for this afternoon and going to order a new lounge carpet today as well . Expensive day ahead then.

 

[Drago]

I have belatedly risen!

Very late night with the band last night, didn't flop into bed until nearly 3am.

 

[numbnuts]

Morning I'm up too, it was a long night and to my surprise not to many bangs, maybe it's heating or fireworks

 

[welsh dragon]

Good morning.

It's nice to wake up to good news. Mo is in sinus rhythm and has no arterial fibrillation. Excellent.

So today? Nothing much on this morning. It's a village clean up day and I'll pop along to offer advice. Yes, really. The footie means I can't get stuck in but I know advice on how to maintain a particular area has been asked for.

And yes it's footie this afternoon. I do hope it's less painful than Wednesday's 7-0 defeat. This evening a small bonfire party and celebrating a friend's birthday.

Now British Gas. My energy supplier, People's Energy, went bust and we've been transferred to BG. This is painful. BG have requested meter readings and sent a link to do this.the link doesn't work. After failing to find a facility to submit meter readings on the web and in the app I went on to online chat. After a lot of palaver with the online chat agents and getting nowhere I made a complaint via the chat. During the complaints process I was told:

" you can't submit meter readings online until your account is set up."

"Errrr well OK but I can see my account"

"Yes, but we need you to submit meter readings to complete set up"

"How do I do this?"

"I'll send you the link"

The link doesn't work because "your account set up isn't complete. Please submit a meter reading to complete setup"

Oh and then I get the email telling me because I have smart meters "you'll never need to send us a meter reading." Yep, I have smart meters but they have never worked!!

I'm planning to switch as soon as I've got a working account to switch away from. Geez it's hard work.

The final wind up was I asked to set up a Direct Debit. This showed on my account within an hour!!!

My electricity supplier keeps sending me emails telling me I can have an engineer come to install a smart meter ASAP. Thanks but no thanks. They don't work. They don't work if you change suppliers. I will pass

 

[GM]

Morning all... @Drago your bands video was on my FB this morning, looked like a fun night was had!

We've been having fireworks all week, last night was quite loud. I like the firework displays especially the old Kenwood concert displays, they were tastefully done to the music.

Enjoy your day folks!

 

[Mo1959]

My electricity supplier keeps sending me emails telling me I can have an engineer come to install a smart meter ASAP. Thanks but no thanks. They don't work. They don't work if you change suppliers. I will pass

I will be resisting too. Hopefully, they will never force anyone to have one.

 

[Paulus]

I will be resisting too. Hopefully, they will never force anyone to have one.

I fear they will become compulsory. When you have to change meters we will get smart ones as replacements.

 

[PaulSB]

My electricity supplier keeps sending me emails telling me I can have an engineer come to install a smart meter ASAP. Thanks but no thanks. They don't work. They don't work if you change suppliers. I will pass

I think the new, second generation meters will work with a new supplier. Having said that ours haven't worked since the day they were installed.

Obviously the actual meters do work but they won't connect with the digital display unit which I understand is used to send the readings to the supplier.

Two positives for me. The old gas meter used to get condensation behind the glass making it very difficult to read and the units displayed are the same as those used to bill the energy which makes life a bit simpler.

Our digital display is in a drawer and is staying there till BG offer a solution. I'm doing nothing!

 

[Mo1959]

My new toy. Lol. I thought about going for the larger screen for my old eyes, but I think the smaller size is probably better on my small wrist.

I forgot it can speak so wondered who was telling me when I had walked a mile and at what pace this morning! A feature I quite like rather than a gimmick as no need to lift your wrist and peer at a screen.