The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

But its not the real world.....its entertainment.
Next you will be telling me the Clint let the baddies escape.......HE KILLED 'EM DEAD !!

No he didn't - he didn't use real bullets.....unlike Alec Baldwin.

 

[Dave7]

I know.......and I totally agree I will have another go at gradually cutting down and see if I can almost do without.

You need the right mental attitude.
Next time you make a tea or coffee imagine you are Mr NumbNuts and say "I haven't got any sugar".
See, easy, job done.

 

[ColinJ]

Good day people. Looks reasonable outside. Looking out of the window I'm wondering if the leaves are staying on the trees longer than usual

I was thinking that too. I reckon it might be because we had a lonnnnnng winter followed by a short spring?

I take it that you have already applied for it? It's not automatically paid when you reach state pension age.

Yes, thanks. There was a discussion about it a few weeks ago, but it may have been in a separate thread. No harm in reminding people though.

NumbNuts......interesting that you say you have never had a brolly (assuming you are serious).

I have never owned one either!

 

[Dave7]

No he didn't - he didn't use real bullets.....unlike Alec Baldwin.

Course he used real bullets. How else could he kill all the baddies ?

 

[BoldonLad]

Damn, need to go round to the shop again. I forgot sugar and there's hardly any left. I've tried, but I just can't take my tea and coffee without it.

I gave up using sugar and milk in tea and coffee when working in USSR after fall of communism

Fresh milk was impossible to get, only sour stuff. “Sugar” was available, but, only as giant cubes, about 5cm across. I don’t know what it actually was, but, it wasn’t sugar as we know it.

 

[ColinJ]

I found weaning myself off sugar in tea very easy in my 20s. 2 heaped teaspoons down to 2 level. A week later 1.5 level, then 1.0 a week later, then 0.5, and finally cut it out a week after that. I have occasionally added sugar again during cafe stops on super-hard bike rides when I desperately need energy but it tastes ughy to me now.

I still like about 0.5 teaspoon in a large mug of coffee.

 

[Dirk]

Course he used real bullets. How else could he kill all the baddies ?

With a 'Clint stare' ?

 

[Paulus]

I know.......and I totally agree I will have another go at gradually cutting down and see if I can almost do without.

When myself and MrsP stopped taking sugar, which was about 40 years ago, we went from 2 heaped in tea and coffee, to one heaped. Then to one level teaspoon, then half a level teaspoon and then down to nothing. The whole process only took a couple of weeks, it is surprising how quick you can do away with sugar.
Even a tiny few granules in a drink makes it too sweet now.

 

[welsh dragon]

I used to have 2 teaspoons of sugar in my coffee. About 7 years ago I changed to half spoon and now have less than a teaspoon of that so half a teaspoon of normal sugar.

 

[numbnuts]

You need the right mental attitude.
Next time you make a tea or coffee imagine you are Mr NumbNuts and say "I haven't got any sugar".
See, easy, job done.

Ah but I do have sugar, but I don't use it in tea or coffee
Any way I've been for a walk and feeling quite tired now.....soup and a sleep to follow shortly

 

[Mo1959]

I used to have 2 teaspoons of sugar in my coffee. About 7 years ago I changed to half spoon and now have less than a teaspoon of that so half a teaspoon of normal sugar.

It’s aspartame though. Nastier than sugar!

 

[welsh dragon]

It’s aspartame though. Nastier than sugar!

But less so that is a win. Stop raining on my parade you

 

[Mo1959]

But less so that is a win. Stop raining on my parade you

Bad for your tinnitus!

 

[welsh dragon]

Bad for your tinnitus!

What? . Maybe that's why it started.

 

[Mo1959]

Forecast is now saying the rain could arrive around 4 so I will have a quick cuppa then have a walk I think.