The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Walked down to village. Picked up pasties from Warrens. Nipped into the Post Office and the Co-Op then on to the docs to have my bloods done. Whilst there I was offered a pneumonia jab - which I had on the spot.
Currently chillin' out in the White Lion with a pint of Otter Ale.

 

[Mo1959]

Getting a bit uneasy about Sturgeon’s current update

Good luck getting as many to follow any new restrictions again after the shenanigans down the road! I think people have had enough now.

 

[pawl]

Watched The Joker last night, not the Batman stuff. A good film which centres around a police office and a violent sex serial killer - thought I'd best warn you all. It's not especially graphic and there are no sex scenes mostly the violence is suggested. It's very good but do be aware of the subject matter.

Shan’t bother then

 

[pawl]

Was Luther any good? I never watched it at the time.

Very good

 

[Mo1959]

Very good

Thanks. I see it’s on Prime so I might make a start on that tonight then.

 

[Chief Broom]

I am feeling seriously sad at having finished Bosch! Anyone else get like that when something they've really enjoyed comes to an end. I will have to trawl through some more stuff on Prime and see what I can find as I can't see anything else tonight.

Not TV so much but books occasionally, i read Mervyn Peake's Gormanghast trilogy and was a bit lost/bereft after finishing them- i had lived in another world for a week!

 

[classic33]

@welsh dragon, hope you waved to them?

 

[Tenkaykev]

Met up with Mrs Tenkaykev in Wimborne post breakfast meet up with ex colleagues and managed to fit in a very large “Pan au Raisin”
After a bit of shopping we arrived at the bus stop to find we had a 15 minute wait before our next bus was due, so we took refuge in the Tap House. We managed to miss the next three buses but are now safely home if a bit inebriated 🍺🍺😁

 

[ColinJ]

Will have to avoid drinking though because moving down the carriage is a nightmare and somebody would grab this seat if I went to the toilet!

Oh, ha ha ha. Sorry... HA HA HA!!!!!!

Toilet visits WERE impossible on the train so when passengers alighted at Coventry many of us made bee-lines for the station toilets. I was one of about 8 men in a row at the urinals and we suddenly heard a young woman behind us...

"Oh, effing GROSS - Wrong bloody toilet!!!!"

She had been so busy updating her social media followers that she didn't look up from her phone and walked in the wrong door!!!

 

[classic33]

I got the Metros but I won't be able to use the voucher because it expires on Wednesday.I will post one to my pal and give the other to my sister.

I have made the classic Friday train error. This one from Leeds is bursting at the seams. Fortunately, I found a reserved seat left empty. Will have to avoid drinking though because moving down the carriage is a nightmare and somebody would grab this seat if I went to the toilet!

About 80% adult mask usage but quit a few unmasked children squeezing past. Surely too early in month for school holidays?

The five I picked up are no good then!

 

[numbnuts]

I'm jabbed and cold

 

[12boy]

I will go this afternoon with my neighbor to get some coffee and BS for a while. It will stay around -6C and snow off and on until tomorrow when the winds will blow most of it away. I have a couple of wheels with Schwalbe studded tires for my Brompton and l might put those on and go fart around with that. I already installed studded snows on my mountain bike if the Brompton is too puny.
Other than that and a bit of snow shovelling not much on tap today.
Here's a question.....I think the short daylight hours and cold of the winter months kick a metabolic/appetite switch which urges us to eat lots more and crave fats and carbs. I can see why blubbing up could be a survival strategy from the times when people had no central heat and starved to death in the colder months. This could be a bigger thing closer to the Poles. Any thoughts?
Be safe and well and may your larders be fully stocked with greasy goodness.

 

[welsh dragon]

@welsh dragon, hope you waved to them?
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I was asleep. Clearly they couldn't decide where to go . Either that or they were lost

 

[classic33]

I will go this afternoon with my neighbor to get some coffee and BS for a while. It will stay around -6C and snow off and on until tomorrow when the winds will blow most of it away. I have a couple of wheels with Schwalbe studded tires for my Brompton and l might put those on and go fart around with that. I already installed studded snows on my mountain bike if the Brompton is too puny.
Other than that and a bit of snow shovelling not much on tap today.
Here's a question.....I think the short daylight hours and cold of the winter months kick a metabolic/appetite switch which urges us to eat lots more and crave fats and carbs. I can see why blubbing up could be a survival strategy from the times when people had no central heat and starved to death in the colder months. This could be a bigger thing closer to the Poles. Any thoughts?
Be safe and well and may your larders be fully stocked with greasy goodness.

I'd say not just colder darker months, you'd yer harvest festivals, then you'd be spreading out what you had to eat over the next few months.

 

[classic33]

I was asleep. Clearly they couldn't decide where to go . Either that or they were lost

Or hunting, without success!