The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

The sun is shining here. However it's not going to last as tonight the temps will drop and the cold is going to return

 

[numbnuts]

I have a surveyor and another chap coming round today to see if there is a mice problem in the flats, most probably get fobbed off with them saying it was a one off knowing them

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Just got up - lazy sod!

Finding it hard to get out of bed at the moment - think it is due to having been ill and not being able to exercise for the last 10 weeks.

I do like a good lay in but I also like exercising too.

Pleasant surprise in the post. During the late November storms we had power cuts on and off for a few days - we went and stayed at our friends down in Blackpool.

Six weeks later we received a compensation cheque for £140 and thought nothing more of it.

Until today when another £280 turned up in the post as they had miscalculated.😁

Wordled in a miserable 6 today.

Off for another Carnic later on today as it is sunny out there.

Got to drag Mrs SD out of bed now as she is lazy too and can be hard to get out of bed - I sometimes tease her about this with my "easy in hard out" remarks when she won't get out of the pit; and then duck!

HAGD all. 🙂

 

[rustybolts]

If you are still awake and don't want to be, maybe give this a go...?



(I haven't watched/listened to all 11+ hours of it so don't blame me if it suddenly starts playing Ace of Spades at full volume! )

I assume that it doesn't play any ads...

Well Numbnuts has been watching this moonlight sky from 12.06 to 12.36 and he is still waving so it hasn't worked for him and it hasn't worked for me either I am still waiting for the Ace of Spazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......... gentle snore .....zzzzzzzzz

 

[classic33]

Our No 2 grandson visited last week. Now, he is 23 and has a good job BUT he took his shoes off and I swear the socks were 50% holes.
It's his birthday this week......guess what we have bought him

Needle and thread?

 

[numbnuts]

It's

 

[classic33]

It's

Again!

 

[ColinJ]

Well Numbnuts has been watching this moonlight sky from 12.06 to 12.36 and he is still waving so it hasn't worked for him and it hasn't worked for me either I am still waiting for the Ace of Spazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......... gentle snore .....zzzzzzzzz

I didn't realise that YouTube has hundreds of insomnia videos. Once I found that one it insisted on listing loads more. There were some interesting ones like 'heavy rain on tin roof' or 'heavy rain thunderstorm'!

The engineer sent by Plusnet just came and did a quick check. He listened to the line and said it sounded clear and checked download speed (16.3 Mb/s, which isn't bad for non-fibre BB). He couldn't see any worrying error data in the new router. He (like me) reckons that the old router was starting to show its age (7+ years). Fingers crossed that the new one continues to run error-free. Oh, and I noticed that the upload speed is now 0.9 Mb/s rather than 0.7 Mb/s. Still slow compared to fibre, but a significant improvement on what it was.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have wall to wall here

 

[Sterlo]

We have wall to wall here

The sun always shines on the righteous.

 

[ColinJ]

I had planned to do a ride this afternoon after the Plusnet engineer had been but I feel like I am rapidly coming down with (hopefully!) a cold. I am feeling rough and tired so I think I will stay indoors in the warm and rest while catching up on my pro cycling backlog.

 

[Dave7]

Needle and thread?

It would need a very big needle and a lot of thread

 

[numbnuts]

My mousey problem, they are taking it very seriously, they are going to get an outside team in to sort it out ASAP

 

[classic33]

It would need a very big needle and a lot of thread

Big enough?

 

[Dave7]

Just had a Goldfinch on the feeder.
We used to get lots of them.....then they just disappeared. 1st one for maybe 2 years.