The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Just left Derby. As many getting on as getting off so no change. Hopefully, lots more leave at Birmingham than get on. Over 3 more hours of this!

I'd two hours of it yesterday, coming back from Leeds.
You'll survive.

 

[ColinJ]

I'd two hours of it yesterday, coming back from Leeds.
You'll survive.

Quickly grabbed a seat in Birmingham but now hundreds standing. Bonkers...

 

[classic33]

Quickly grabbed a seat in Birmingham but now hundreds standing. Bonkers...

And you're only getting there. There's the return leg...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I got the kitchen floor steam mopped this morning as well as the lounge speed mopped and the bedrooms vacuumed, this afternoon I've been defrosting our fridge/freezer, I was having trouble closing the door, and doing the polishing, in between we had a lovely lunch in Live Laugh And Love food on Beake Avenue, ham batch for my Good lady and egg on toast for me.

 

[ColinJ]

And you're only getting there. There's the return leg...

Hopefully, there will not be the same problems with that journey.

It is not quite so bad anyway because I split the return journey at Birmingham to have lunch with my stepdaughter. That is always nice and 2 shorter journeys are much less stressful than 1 long one.

AAAARGH! And the seat reservation system is lying! Seats are shown as unreserved and then passengers with reservations arrive and demand them. I am back to standing again...

A distressed old woman just being squeezed through to a working toilet.

Apart from that, all is well.

 

[classic33]

Hopefully, there will not be the same problems with that journey.

It is not quite so bad anyway because I split the return journey at Birmingham to have lunch with my stepdaughter. That is always nice and 2 shorter journeys are much less stressful than 1 long one.

AAAARGH! And the seat reservation system is lying! Seats are shown as unreserved and then passengers with reservations arrive and demand them. I am back to standing again...

A distressed old woman just being squeezed through to a working toilet.

Apart from that, all is well.

Say that you've reserved seat, and you got on earlier/at some station back up the line.

The joys of travelling by train.

 

[ColinJ]

The joys of travelling by train.

Indeed!

Anyway, the train finally got me here.

Now I have 15 minutes to wait until I lose my bus pass virginity!

 

[Paulus]

Deltic is up in the NRM in York.
EWS Class 66, running between platforms 10 & 12, or 6 & 8?

Plenty of class 37's still around.
Looks like a smaller version of the Deltic. Made by the same company.

 

[Paulus]

Say that you've reserved seat, and you got on earlier/at some station back up the line.

The joys of travelling by train.

Hopefully, there will not be the same problems with that journey.



AAAARGH! And the seat reservation system is lying! Seats are shown as unreserved and then passengers with reservations arrive and demand them. I am back to standing again...

Did you check that were in the right carriage?
Cross country trains have 5 of them.

 

[PaulSB]

I'm sat on our garden bench. Glass of Laphroaig. The air is absolutely still. There isn't a sound other than birdsong.

Perfect.

 

[classic33]

Did you check that were in the right carriage?
Cross country trains have 5 of them.

Ha - so much for great journey... The train is only 4 carriages and every seat is taken, even First Class. Passengers standing everywhere. I am sitting on the floor next to a stinky toilet, but that doesn't work!

Oh dear, an elderly woman who is busting now needs to be taken through the crowd to the toilet at the other end of the train.

I won't dare drink much!

Might not have been Cross Country, four carriages against five.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I'm sat on our garden bench. Glass of Laphroaig. The air is absolutely still. There isn't a sound other than birdsong.

Perfect.
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Nice Hosta.

 

[kayakerles]

I’ve been having a rummage in the shed and found some Ergon grips. I love Ergon grips, the palm rests make my rides so much more comfortable. Might as well put them on the “ For Sale “ thread, they’re humungous, Ergon GP5 Biokork ( thought they might help with the mismatch between me riding Mrs Tenkaykev’s bike on the turbo ) 😮

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Love Ergons too, Tenkaykev. Have them on both my hybrid and sorta-commuter MTB. Couldn’t live without ‘em. (But mine don’t have the horns.

 

[ColinJ]

Did you check that were in the right carriage?
Cross country trains have 5 of them.

Might not have been Cross Country, four carriages against five.

I didn't check that the woman actually DID have a reservation. I assumed that she was telling the truth and it was the displays that were wrong. I heard someone else complain that the displays were not showing the correct information.

It WAS a Cross Country train but someone said that it should have been 8 carriages. 4 certainly wasn't enough.

I have been trying to catch up on today's Giro stage but it has been a tiring day so I have already dozed off a couple of times. My body is telling me to be sensible for once... 02:00 bed time rather 04:00 - 05:00!

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. Another beautiful day has dawned though it's 40% rain by 9.00 and 80% by 11.00. Foolishly we have arranged a gravel ride.

Pretty much everything done around the house, allotment needs weeding and I have to solve the problem of where to plant brassicas. These are ready to plant out weeks too soon, think I'll have to sow a fresh batch along with more lettuce, spinach etc. First world, middle-class problem. I'm feeling a touch radical and cross this morning, that's what comes of reading the Guardian too early in the day.

Rain for the allotment would be good.

Time for a doze.......