The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

The last time the weather caught me out it bucketed down and was completely drenched i had to ride into a rain lashing head wind all the way home...
Hope you like the new toy are you humming...'Mo Mo row your boat gently down the stream'

Maybe I should. It might keep the stroke rate a bit lower. Tempted to have another go soon rather than walk. Might connect my heart rate strap and work to heart rate when I’m new to it.

 

[Chief Broom]

Maybe I should. It might keep the stroke rate a bit lower. Tempted to have another go soon rather than walk. Might connect my heart rate strap and work to heart rate when I’m new to it.

Take care with your back though Mo maybe take it easy today and see if any twinges start.

 

[numbnuts]

Maybe I should. It might keep the stroke rate a bit lower. Tempted to have another go soon rather than walk. Might connect my heart rate strap and work to heart rate when I’m new to it.

Just let your body do the talking, but I did rowing with a damaged spine and after two operations too, only push yourself when your body is ready.
I use to enjoy the rowing at the gym more than the weights and bike

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good afternoon folks,
Added a bit on to this mornings walk and ended up with a distance of 10K. I had a voucher from M+S which needed using, £10 off a £30 spend so well worth using. We popped in to the local food hall and managed to clock up £30 of food, mainly store cupboard stuff with a decent shelf life. As we were waiting at the checkout the elderly couple ahead of us were just finishing what must have been a big shop as the assistant said " That's £105 please. When the woman put her card in the machine the assistant told them that they'd " won " the shopping for free. The way it works is that if you scan your Sparks card at the checkout then once a week, in every store, someone randomly gets their shopping for free.👍

 

[welsh dragon]

BBQ pork with rice today

 

[ColinJ]

Damn - my cycling gilet's zip has died! The tab broke off a year or so back but I bodged a replacement. Eventually the zip became unreliable and kept coming open, or not even closing in the first place. Now what is left of the slider bit has fallen apart.

I don't think it is worth paying to have a new zip put in so it looks like some of my coming first pension payment will be spent on a replacement. Still, it is great knowing that these small expenses need no longer be a problem. I have been so skint the past few years that even having to spend £30 extra on something was a worry.

I wear a gilet on most spring and autumn bike rides, and some summer and winter ones. They are very versatile garments!

Gilet research starts now... (Any recommendations? I want lightweight, breathable, and packable. I don't want warm!)

 

[12boy]

ColinJ....don't worry about the dementia/sleep issue....just fuggedaboutit.
Got a letter from the State of Wyoming, said since I did not take out my state pension in the year I turned 72 there would be a 20% deduction sent to the Internal Revenue Service. But I should call if I've questions. This pension was based on working a few years at $8/HR, 20 hrs a week. I figured it would be about $10 and shined it on. Turns out it was a bit over 2k so at least 1600.
Cold and snowy today with light graupel. Gotta take Mrs 12 to oncology today and she will hate the trip. Probably justified due to my crap driving skills.
Mo, endeavor to persevere ( Josie Wales). I read somewhere that as we get used to a new exercise and can coast on a rthym, so to speak, our stamina goes up a surprising amount.
Be well and safe and to sanitize Bette Midler...if they can't take a joke, f them.

 

[classic33]

Anyone else seen this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60091753

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-who-dragged-dead-uncle-22863168

 

[ColinJ]

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https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/man-who-dragged-dead-uncle-22863168

Well, if Boris can't tell that 40 people laughing and joking while knocking back wine, cheese and biscuits is a party, how's a young fella to know that his very quiet uncle isn't just having a good nap!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Damn - my cycling gilet's zip has died! The tab broke off a year or so back but I bodged a replacement. Eventually the zip became unreliable and kept coming open, or not even closing in the first place. Now what is left of the slider bit has fallen apart.

I don't think it is worth paying to have a new zip put in so it looks like some of my coming first pension payment will be spent on a replacement. Still, it is great knowing that these small expenses need no longer be a problem. I have been so skint the past few years that even having to spend £30 extra on something was a worry.

I wear a gilet on most spring and autumn bike rides, and some summer and winter ones. They are very versatile garments!

Gilet research starts now... (Any recommendations? I want lightweight, breathable, and packable. I don't want warm!)

I like my gilets too, I have two nice ones from Rapha.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I like my gilets too, I have two nice ones from Rapha.

Rapha Gilet? " The Best a Man Can Get "

 

[ColinJ]

ColinJ....don't worry about the dementia/sleep issue....just fuggedaboutit.

That's the problem... I AM fuggedingaboutitandmanyotherthingstoo!

(It's actually not too bad, but I have been finding it harder to keep track of plots/characters in foreign TV dramas/movies. Reading the subtitles makes it harder, and all the unfamiliar names don't help. I can cope with people mentioning 'El Chapo' but would struggle with 'Joaquín Guzmán Loera'... While I am trying to remember who one character is, the plot moves on and I am always playing catch-up!)

 

[ColinJ]

I like my gilets too, I have two nice ones from Rapha.

I just looked up the prices... £90-140!!!!!

My pre-pension cycling clothing budget of £0 has gone up to (say) £30. Rapha are 300-500% too expensive for me!

 

[numbnuts]

I haven't got a Gilet

 

[Tenkaykev]

I haven't got a Gilet

I’ve got a Wilkinson Sword Double edged.