The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Morning. Just the riverside walk this morning. I jogged a mile in the middle just to get the heart rate up. It was so mild I was sweating just doing that. Big change next week though. May well be sub zero starts.

Back on the Weetabix this morning for a change. It's getting harder and harder to find stuff in the supermarket just now. I had to take the one with bits of chocolate in it. Quite nice though.

 

[Juan Kog]

I am meeting my son for a burrito for lunch before he goes to work, he starts at 3 this afternoon.

Starts at 3 ! . Did he follow you into the family firm ? .

 

[Deleted member 1258]

dave r in action, this picture came up on my Facebook memories, a cyclechat forum ride round Rutland from 9 years ago, and me on my trusty Person fixed, the fixed I had before I brought the Genesis Flyer, it was a favoutite bike of mine.

 

[Dave7]

Yes I remember my parents getting them, I'm sure it would have been cheaper to just go out and buy the stuff.

Blimey Dave......we used to collect them. When we had sufficient we would visit the shop, browse the catalogue and choose something.
I understand it transformed and became Argos.

 

[classic33]

Good morning folks,
Grey and still, Mrs Tenkaykev is feeling much better this morning following Tuesday’s booster. I managed a 10k walk to Wimborne yesterday and listened to a couple of podcasts en route. One nugget of information that made me smile was that it was originally frowned on for women to take tea lest they become debauched, and tea was sometimes referred to as as “ Scandalsoup “ I’m sure it wouldn’t have applied to members on this forum as they are pillars of propriety 🤔

A few more along similar lines,
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soda-jerk-slang

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Blimey Dave......we used to collect them. When we had sufficient we would visit the shop, browse the catalogue and choose something.
I understand it transformed and became Argos.

Yes, it morphed into Argos

 

[pawl]

I vaguely remember a pink stamp.

That’s set me thinking about when I started school in late 1945.Monday morning was the day you paid your dinner money for the week and then the teacher would collect your sixpence from those pupils who participated in the saving’s scheme for a stamp that you stuck in your savings book.Once the book was full you took it to the post office to redeem the value of the saved stamps

 

[Paulus]

Starts at 3 ! . Did he follow you into the family firm ? .

Grandfather/my Dad, 1948-1990, me, 1974-2018, my brother, 1976-2020, my son, 2012---

 

[numbnuts]

I've just got up

 

[welsh dragon]

I've just got up

Lazy sod

 

[Mo1959]

I've just got up

Hardly worth it.....soon be bedtime

 

[welsh dragon]

The rain has started now. It's very misty over the hills and it's that misty fine rain

 

[ColinJ]

Hardly worth it.....soon be bedtime

I woke up at 08:20 today, 10 minutes before my alarm and 4.5 hours after going to sleep. I hadn't had much sleep the night before either so I am feeling pretty knackered now and I will have a lunchtime snooze today.

It was another blood-test day for me and my appointment was just after 09:00. There was heavy drizzle so I had intended to walk there instead of cycling but I left it a bit late and had to dash down on my bike in the end. My brakes sound horrid, like they were grinding the rims away. There must be a lot of mud and grit trapped in the grooves on the brake blocks after doing the Parlington Lane bridleway on Saturday's Vale of York ride. I'll clean them later in my back yard once conditions have dried up.

I didn't pick up the Metro, because I forgot to! I just wanted to get home ASAP before I got even wetter. I'll go back out and do my usual 6 km lumpy Metro loop later.

Oh, while I was at the health centre I asked the receptionist about Covid booster jabs. She told me that boosters are available at the Wednesday drop-ins but I just searched and the online information said that only first and second jabs are! I can't be bothered to go down there only to be turned away, so I'll stick to plan A - wait for an appointment.

 

[Mo1959]

The rain has started now. It's very misty over the hills and it's that misty fine rain

I used to work with a lady that called it mizzle. Cross between mist and drizzle I presume.

 

[Chief Broom]

Oh joy squally drizzle morning folks absolutely no idea what im doing today....if my bolts arrive i can put my mudguards on and then go for a walk i suppose- at least the sea is always interesting in its different moods