The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Its gone warm here now. It was 🌧 in March earlier. And its as well.

No idea what we are having to eat yet. Mr WD is outside hacking the willow trees down with a machete .

 

[BoldonLad]

Its gone warm here now. It was 🌧 in March earlier. And its as well.

No idea what we are having to eat yet. Mr WD is outside hacking the willow trees down with a machete .

Best be extra nice to him, whilst he has a machete in his hand

 

[Dave7]

What a pathetic excuse "I made a mistake"

Well you may have a valid point there.

 

[Mo1959]

Little 40 minute wander before lunch which was spaghetti hoops on toast.

We have sun but also a strong breeze so it’s feeling quite pleasant.

 

[PaulSB]

WOW! What a good drying day. I'm on my third load. Exciting? Eh? Well 'tis housework day. I have been very industrious and absolutely loads done. Mrs P is cleaning the front room like a whirling dervish.......now I wouldn't say this was unusual but certainly worth marking on the calendar!

Just stopped for a pitta bread, tuna, hardboiled egg and lettuce. Then tackle the bathroom and it's then Bridge and Canasta club.

 

[Mo1959]

WOW! What a good drying day. I'm on my third load. Exciting? Eh? Well 'tis housework day. I have been very industrious and absolutely loads done. Mrs P is cleaning the front room like a whirling dervish.......now I wouldn't say this was unusual but certainly worth marking on the calendar!

Just stopped for a pitta bread, tuna, hardboiled egg and lettuce. Then tackle the bathroom and it's then Bridge and Canasta club.

I think I need a lie down now and that’s just reading that!

 

[rustybolts]

Having just looked the spider up, it would appear to be a male False Widow spider.

Not a false widow just an ordinary tegenaria domestica

 

[welsh dragon]

We just had a sandwich today as we are not very hungry.

 

[Exlaser2]

In this day and age with the cost of petrol, insurance, tax etc £5.00 isn't too high a price to pay IMHO. Its supply and demand.

Mrs exlaser works in a pharmacy and they charge £2 which just covers the cost , the thing is it’s another service like blister packing tablets that the NHS doesn’t pay for. There is no time given so you might have to wait in most of the day, but as it’s supposed to be a service for people who can not get out, it shouldn’t be problem.

Very jealous of your strawberries, ours finished weeks ago.

Anyway afternoon everyone , hope everyone is well and in a good mood . Unlike me , who because of a ‘ incident ‘ at the sailing club last night night has had a total humour bypass . Am still steaming over it now, I must shake it off, otherwise I might just stop sailing altogether which would be very stupid on my part .

 

[welsh dragon]

Its a spider. And ALLL SPIDERS should be squished.

 

[welsh dragon]

Mrs exlaser works in a pharmacy and they charge £2 which just covers the cost , the thing is it’s another service like blister packing tablets that the NHS doesn’t pay for. There is no time given so you might have to wait in most of the day, but as it’s supposed to be a service for people who can not get out, it shouldn’t be problem.

Very jealous of your strawberries, ours finished weeks ago.

Anyway afternoon everyone , hope everyone is well and in a good mood . Unlike me , who because of a ‘ incident ‘ at the sailing club last night night has had a total humour bypass . Am still steaming over it now, I must shake it off, otherwise I might just stop sailing altogether which would be very stupid on my part .

We are lucky in one way because we are not charged for prescriptions. The downside is there is no delivery service. Neighbours do tend to get prescriptions for neighbours and its not unusual to have someone with a whole bag of tablets and stuff for everyone in the neighbourhood.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I get it when folk are ill but can't get my head round having the weekly shop delivered. I know loads of people who do but it wouldn't work for me.

Same with clothes , I get very irritated at having to order six pairs of jeans when I only want to try them before sending them all back!!

Many years ago in the 90's I had a fairly senior job with a well known food retailer.

I was seconded onto a project headed by a Main Board director as part of the Operations input.

The remit was to develop strategy for Y2K and beyond.

Some of the predictions were spookily prescient and similar to those being put together by other large retailers.

At the heart of it all was the notion that we would become increasingly insular with a profound shift away from traditional retail channels - more and more so as we drew up the drawbridge of our homes as we morphed into Fortress Britain. And this is what has happened.

Tbh I love it all. Mrs SD and I are unhappy traditional shoppers and avoid bricks and mortar retailers as much as we can.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Got my 'Claim your State Pension' form today and I have just completed it online.

Never imagined myself as an OAP. 😊

 

[pawl]

I get it when folk are ill but can't get my head round having the weekly shop delivered. I know loads of people who do but it wouldn't work for me.

Same with clothes , I get very irritated at having to order six pairs of jeans when I only want to try them before sending them all back!!

We have used Tesco home delivery since the outbreak of Covid We certainly have no intention of going back to do our weekly shop in store.It’s a twenty mile round trip to our two nearest supermarkets and DIY store As long as we know what we want we order on line
Why order six pairs of trousers just to try them on Shoes and clothing I only buy on line if it’s a similar product to what I have previously purchased

I have found Amazon excellent with returns usually collected within two days and money refunded same day

 

[postman]

I have been to town to get Mr WD tablets.

And excitement and deep joy MY NEW PHONE WORKS IN TOWN.

Are these the same tablets Mr Moses got,you know ye shall not covert thy neighbours ass, or something like that.