The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

Thats good but then you have to get them onto the roof.
Now I happen to know that Welshies days as a cat burglar gave her lots of experience of working on roofs. Still might be worth asking her

I won't even have to do that as my grandson and his dad are roofers so they are doing it for me. Professional job then with rubber felt glued on .

 

[numbnuts]

Hi

 

[Paulus]

Hi

Welcome. Only just got up?

 

[numbnuts]

Welcome. Only just got up?

I've been up since 03:00

 

[classic33]

Morning. It's been raining all night here and at the moment it's damp overcast and misty. Supposed to be raining all day as well, that fine drizzly stuff. . Good job I got my washing done the other day..oooh there's the raib again.

Seeing Dave talking about petunias made me laugh. Does anyone remember the commercial with petunia and her husband talking about the coast guard and people drowning

Anyhoo. Stay safe peeps

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTr_H70rNE


What about worn tyres?

 

[Dave7]

I won't even have to do that as my grandson and his dad are roofers so they are doing it for me. Professional job then with rubber felt glued on .

aaahhh, well I admit, that may (MAY) be even better than using Welshies vast experience.
Thinking about it, she is probably better at opening roofs up than repairing them

 

[ColinJ]

. The world we live in. We've all seen eggs for sale outside people's houses, farm gates with an honesty box etc. Genuine Facebook post in one of the local village groups...............

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I hardly use cash at all these days, but I have started carrying a couple of pounds worth of change so I can chuck something in the busker's hat outside Lidl or Aldi.

It isn't such a daft idea to offer a PayPal option. Almost inspired, in fact! You trust people to pay cash for the eggs, so why not trust them to PayPal you the payment?

 

[Dirk]

Cut all the lawns.....again - that's 4 cuts on the front and 3 each on the sides and back since yesterday afternoon. Raked all the cuttings up. Another couple of cuts on each one and a lot of edging, and I should be back somewhere near where the lawns were before we went away.
My spuds, onions and garlic are going strong, but my carrots and beans are all a no show.
Had lunch and am now enjoying a nice cool pint of Exmoor Stag. Siesta beckoning.

 

[byegad]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDTr_H70rNE


What about worn tyres?

In our household, when visiting the seaside any small vessel is called a dingee, and the man is always waving at us if in the water.

Cooee!

 

[12boy]

Had my transesophageal echocardiogram yesterday and took my last Xarelto blood thinner Monday night. The Doc said every thing looks perfect with the umbrella seal well seated. I could go for a bike ride later today although I will wait till tomorrow when my son and his wife will go home to Denver. They had come up to accompany me to the hospital since I couldn't drive for 24 hours and take care of my wife while I was hors de combat. It will be raining all day today anyway.
This afternoon we will see the cancer doc who will say if the new chemo is working and if it is will double the dose. So far the only side effect seems to be overwhelming fatigue. At some point she may just say screw this...just give me palliative care. She is tougher than me..I would have been at that point years ago. It has been almost 6 years since the diagnosis.
We have been watching the Sister Boniface series which is pretty goofy and is a sister program to Father Brown with Mark Wiliams, Mr Weasely.
Be safe and well.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I wasn't brilliant this morning, stiff joints and muscle aches, but Yoga was good, Peter gave us a good workout and I was moving freely afterwards. Its been raining this afternoon like someones been boat building but I've got most of the housework done. I've also got the computer updated, I was on Xubuntu 20.04 Long term support release, it told me last week that the next LTS release was available but it wouldn't let me upgrade, so I found a guide online and upgraded via the command line, but it wouldn't let me go straight to the latest release, instead I had to upgrade to 21.10 then upgrade to 22.04, but what amused me was the names they give the upgrades, someone there has got a sense of humour, I went from Focal Fossa to Jammy Jellyfish via Impish Indri.

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[PaulSB]

I hardly use cash at all these days, but I have started carrying a couple of pounds worth of change so I can chuck something in the busker's hat outside Lidl or Aldi.

It isn't such a daft idea to offer a PayPal option. Almost inspired, in fact! You trust people to pay cash for the eggs, so why not trust them to PayPal you the payment?

Not quite the point I was making. The poster is suggesting the egg seller publicises bank and PayPal details in a situation where any passers-by can simply pick them up.

Several people replied giving the egg supplier's name.

I know further authentication is needed but financial details, email address, name and physical address (outside farm or private house etc) is a decent start for ripping someone off.

 

[Dirk]

Just realised that we've passed the 100K mark on the number of posts in this thread.
@classic33 did post #100K on Saturday. Well done all!

I've bought a motion sensor animal deterrant for my garden from LIDL.
Hooked up to a hose pipe, it senses anything nearby and gives 'em a good soaking. Hopefully I can get rid of the bloody cat that thinks my raised beds are his personal dirt tray.
He's in for a shock tonight!

 

[ColinJ]

Not quite the point I was making. The poster is suggesting the egg seller publicises bank and PayPal details in a situation where any passers-by can simply pick them up.

I did think that giving bank details would be iffy.

I had forgotten that the PayPal details would include your email address, giving which could also be iffy.

In other words - you were right!

 

[ColinJ]

I put a couple of tins of tomatoes in the community food donations crate at Aldi today. The creme egg packet was still there but I noticed that it had been opened. Either the donor had taken one out before donating, or some cheeky person has reached in, nicked a creme egg, and then put the remainder back in the crate!

The phantom choc donor (or a copycat choc supplier) has now added a Terry's Chocolate Orange to the crate.