The Retirement Thread

[BoldonLad]

I must have a look see on Amazon for them. Who is the writer

I read the whole series, from memory, I think it. was 12 or 14 books. I read them in order, and, bought them secondhand from World of Books (excellent, free postage, and quick delivery).

 

[Dirk]

Certainly is. I loved them. Definitely my kind of author.

MrsD's read all of them.

 

[welsh dragon]

Peter James

Thanks

 

[Tenkaykev]

Wandered up the trailway this morning, noticed that the new Electric Vehicle charging point in the pub car park is capable of delivering 50Kw. I imagine that the massive hike in electricity prices, coupled with the overheads that the charging network companies needs to charge ( sorry about the pun ) to cover capital investment and running costs will lead to some mergers / insolvencies.
Anyway, I ended up striding out and “ doing a Mo “, 17.25 KM 👍😎

 

[PaulSB]

Good afternoon, thought I had better pop in. I got distracted this morning and have been doing "stuff" ever since. I plan to have a brew and a hot cross bun shortly. One of today's tasks was to wash the Duplo. 25 years ago we put our children's Duplo set away in the garage as "that will come in" when we have grandchildren. We we know have a granddaughter. A mouse built a nest in the box which it has been kept. Most of today has been taken up, washing and sterilising a large amount of Duplo! God knows what we'll find in the Lego box when we get that out!

 

[ColinJ]

A funny letter in today's Metro. One wag had spotted something that I had missed in Friday's cryptic crossword...

Rough appearance, we hear, of one of the main law-breakers [7]

Spoiler: The correct answer, and why

CORSAIR

For those of you unfamiliar with cryptic crossword solving, here is an explanation:

Not 'main' as in 'major', 'main' as in 'sea'.

Therefore, a law-breaker at sea; a pirate; a CORSAIR

'We hear' - if you say the answer out loud, it sounds like something else...

CORSAIR... COARSE 'AIR... rough appearance!

The correspondent's answer was...


JOHNSON!

(It didn't fit in with the other words in the puzzle, but it would have been an amusing first attempt.)

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Sat in A & E with my Good Lady, got here about half eleven, ambulance driver driving it like he stole it on blues and twos, thats the fastest time between our house and the hospital, a lot of activity when we first arrived but for the last couple of hours we've been left alone in the cubicle, waiting for test results I think, they didn't say.

 

[Mo1959]

Sat in A & E with my Good Lady, got here about half eleven, ambulance driver driving it like he stole it on blues and twos, thats the fastest time between our house and the hospital, a lot of activity when we first arrived but for the last couple of hours we've been left alone in the cubicle, waiting for test results I think, they didn't say.

Oh gosh, that's not so good Dave. Hope alls ok and tests show nothing to overly worry about.

 

[welsh dragon]

Sat in A & E with my Good Lady, got here about half eleven, ambulance driver driving it like he stole it on blues and twos, thats the fastest time between our house and the hospital, a lot of activity when we first arrived but for the last couple of hours we've been left alone in the cubicle, waiting for test results I think, they didn't say.

I hope Mrs Dave is ok.

 

[welsh dragon]

The saga of the lawnmower is over. It was the battery. Although the charger said it was fully charged, it wasn't. New battery and it started straight away. Hoorah

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Oh gosh, that's not so good Dave. Hope alls ok and tests show nothing to overly worry about.

I hope Mrs Dave is ok.

Thank you, good work by the ambulance crew and the doctors and nurses and the outcome should be good.

 

[ColinJ]

Sat in A & E with my Good Lady, got here about half eleven, ambulance driver driving it like he stole it on blues and twos, thats the fastest time between our house and the hospital, a lot of activity when we first arrived but for the last couple of hours we've been left alone in the cubicle, waiting for test results I think, they didn't say.

GWS, Mrs R!

If the parcel comes early enough maybe I will wrap up for an evening ride.

The parcel has come. The charger looks pretty decent. Time for a test...

Well, the phone's leather case doesn't seem to cause any problems with the wireless charging. The phone only needs 14% to top up and it is estimating 28 mins, so round about 3.5 hours for a full charge. I'm happy with that - I rarely need to top up more than 50%. I didn't need to fiddle about to find the right position for the phone - it was detected immediately and charging commenced.

Future proofing having charging areas for a smartwatch and earbuds too - great. As long as this thing turns out to be reliable it is a fantastic deal.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

GWS, Mrs R!

Thank you

 

[ColinJ]

As long as this thing turns out to be reliable it is a fantastic deal.

I was just reading the reviews... Someone was complaining that they bought the charger for £25 but 2 days later the price dropped to what I paid - £12.99. Ouch!

Charging completed a few minutes quicker than forecast.

I think I will let the phone charge get down to 50% before charging it next time and see how long that takes. I also want to check that the phone and charger don't overheat. (They are supposed to communicate to prevent that happening.)

 

[numbnuts]

Thank you, good work by the ambulance crew and the doctors and nurses and the outcome should be good.

Great News Dave