The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Ere we go!

Good luck with that!

Something spooky... At the exact moment that I read that, the peloton reached the foot of the very steep Mur de Huy and the commentator called out... "Here we go"!!!

 

[welsh dragon]

You need one of these
View attachment 641405
From...
https://www.scythecymru.co.uk/

I will tell Mr WD

 

[classic33]

I will tell Mr WD

You could buy him one, as surprise.
Maybe even a matching His and Hers pair.

 

[12boy]

A bit of heavy wet snow this am through 6pm tonight. Very needed precip. Will hover around 0C so it may change to rain for a while. We usually get one of these in April. The Aged Pooch does not approve, however. She did get me up twice in the night to take a whiz, though. 18C by Tuesday. On May 3rd I should be allowed to bike again as I hope to quit my powerful blood thinner. Boy, do I miss riding.
Be safe and well.

 

[PaulSB]

Re pensions etc.

Does anyone else on here have a Government Gateway Account?

This gives you access to a huge array of Government services.

Mrs SD & I have had one for years - we were both involved in a limited company.

Excellent service for: filing tax returns, updating your tax code information, checking NI contributions (shows contribution by year all the way back to age 16), checking State Pension forecast, S2P/SERPS contributions and hence entitlement to payment above the full State Pension and deductions made re contracting out etc.

A very useful portal.

Yep, had one for many years and opened Mrs P's 2-3 years back.

 

[PaulSB]

Just noticed that as well as the advert at the top I am now getting an advert sliding up from the bottom of the page. Bloody annoying. Anyone else got it. I'm on the iMac so not sure if it's the same on the iPad.

Not here but I make a small payment to CC annually to be ad free.

 

[classic33]

A bit of heavy wet snow this am through 6pm tonight. Very needed precip. Will hover around 0C so it may change to rain for a while. We usually get one of these in April. The Aged Pooch does not approve, however. She did get me up twice in the night to take a whiz, though. 18C by Tuesday. On May 3rd I should be allowed to bike again as I hope to quit my powerful blood thinner. Boy, do I miss riding.
Be safe and well.

I must protest at the picture content of your post, and many before.
You get all that snow and we got very little this laat year. What are you doing with our snow?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good luck with that!

Something spooky... At the exact moment that I read that, the peloton reached the foot of the very steep Mur de Huy and the commentator called out... "Here we go"!!!

I'm back, all done, took just over two hours and I got to listen to the F1 sprint race whilst I was doing it.

 

[numbnuts]

I've got no adverts ..........

 

[BoldonLad]

Noticed the posts ref Government Gateway. I have recently used mine to complete my annual tax return, no problem. However, one of my Pensioner drinking pals claims they are changing the mechanism to check your Id. He apparently had hours of “fun” negotiating the new set up.

 

[classic33]

I've got no adverts ..........

Do you want any?

 

[Mo1959]

Noticed the posts ref Government Gateway. I have recently used mine to complete my annual tax return, no problem. However, one of my Pensioner drinking pals claims they are changing the mechanism to check your Id. He apparently had hours of “fun” negotiating the new set up.

I gave up. Having no passport or credit card seemed to make it impossible without phoning them so I didn’t bother.

 

[PaulSB]

A friend of ours is heavily into hedgerow weaving which involves going out to wild harvest all her weaving materials. Here's her latest creation which was on display at the start of today's walk.

 

[PaulSB]

Noticed the posts ref Government Gateway. I have recently used mine to complete my annual tax return, no problem. However, one of my Pensioner drinking pals claims they are changing the mechanism to check your Id. He apparently had hours of “fun” negotiating the new set up.

Yes, there either have been or are changes on the way. Last time I tried to log in via the Post Office it was very difficult. Prior to that we had to log in via Experian which was far simpler.

 

[Mo1959]

A friend of ours is heavily into hedgerow weaving which involves going out to wild harvest all her weaving materials. Here's her latest creation which was on display at the start of today's walk. View attachment 641500

Took me a while to work it out St George and dragon?