The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Cheaper than my trike battery at £400

 

[welsh dragon]

Should be a cheap fix then. 4 for £3.00 at Aldi.

Yeah right. It's like a car battery . Can I get one of those at Aldi

 

[welsh dragon]

£44.00.

 

[Mo1959]

We've been up a windmill this morning!
Well.....it's really a wind pump, but it looks the same.
Horsey wind pump.
Went right to the top!




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Currently awaiting lunch at the Greyhound in Hickling.

I think I might have been there around 45 years ago when we did a Hoseasons boating holiday with mum and dad.

 

[Mo1959]

£44.00.

That’s actually not too bad I don’t think?

 

[classic33]

Not good if you have an ad up your bottom

No, I'll give you that. But some of the ads they'd make your eyes water.

 

[classic33]

We've been up a windmill this morning!
Well.....it's really a wind pump, but it looks the same.
Horsey wind pump.
Went right to the top!




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Currently awaiting lunch at the Greyhound in Hickling.

I see no horse!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just had a phone call from daughter, the weather is glorious for spectating, not so much for those in the race. Next checkpoint will be Beinglas, I let her know that the bloke immediately ahead of her man is in his 70’s 😁 😮

 

[Tenkaykev]

I see no horse!

Rocinante 🐴

 

[classic33]

The ongoing saga of the lawnmower. Mr WD having checked everything thinks it's the battery. They don't last forever and this one is at least 6 years old so a new battery it is. Phew. Cheaper than a new mower at least

You need one of these

From...
https://www.scythecymru.co.uk/

 

[classic33]

Rocinante 🐴

Leave "old Don" out of this.
The Dutch and their windmills...

 

[Tenkaykev]

I walked to parkrun this morning, just to spectate as my calf is still hors de combat. As I was walking I passed a chap, mid forties or thereabouts, dressed conventionally apart from a Top Hat 🎩. We exchanged “ good mornings “ as we passed. I must admit the hat looked rather dapper, it wasn’t a tall top hat and didn’t have any embellishments such as a ribbon. I was pondering whether he was an absent minded funeral director who’d put his work hat on by mistake 🤔
Further introspection had me thinking that it would make a very dashing looking cycle helmet…

 

[ColinJ]

I'm watching a replay of La Flèche Wallonne. After that I will go out for a shortish windy dinglespeed ride (52/19 for the easier start and finish, and 42/29 for the hilly mid-section).

This room felt very cosy when I walked in. It took me about 2 seconds to realise that I had forgotten to turn the convector heater off when I went to bed... That's a couple of pounds worth of electricity wasted!

I have vitally important work to do while the cycling is on in the background - I don't like the shape of the icons on my Galaxy Tab so I want to find out how to change it. (It looks like Samsung have removed the option which would normally be there, so it might need an app to be installed to do it.) Who thought that squared-off circles was a good look!

 

[Mo1959]

I walked to parkrun this morning, just to spectate as my calf is still hors de combat. As I was walking I passed a chap, mid forties or thereabouts, dressed conventionally apart from a Top Hat 🎩. We exchanged “ good mornings “ as we passed. I must admit the hat looked rather dapper, it wasn’t a tall top hat and didn’t have any embellishments such as a ribbon. I was pondering whether he was an absent minded funeral director who’d put his work hat on by mistake 🤔
Further introspection had me thinking that it would make a very dashing looking cycle helmet…

Hope for us yet. Fast walking rather than running but still impressive at 95!



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[Deleted member 1258]

Ere we go!




See you all later.