The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

……..and here too. More bloody high humidity. I hate it.

 

[Mo1959]

I’ll probably watch Countryfile at 7. I don’t think it’s as good as it used to be but it’s looking back at farming over the last 100 years so should be quite interesting.

 

[welsh dragon]

I am sitting in the car park in mach waiting for my granddaughter

 

[numbnuts]

I've just had a piece of cake with a cup of tea, like BBC programs there could be a repeat

 

[Mo1959]

There’s been a weird smell here all day. The local consensus is that it’s coming over on the easterly wind from Perth where there has been a very large fire at the recycling centre.

 

[classic33]

I thought you were Classic at first then realises he doesn't get up this early.

Don't start posting as early.
Often just reading when Numbnuts comes on.
There's not many on after 1am these days.

 

[classic33]

'Tis very wet here.

Still waiting for the four horsemen to come riding over the horizon following the media-driven wildfire plague & we're all going to hell in a handcart few weeks of hot weather that we, unsurprisingly, managed to survive.

How I love the prophets of doom. 🙄

6am too early for you, or would you prefer earlier hours?

 

[PaulSB]

Watched Sunset Song on BBC4 iPlayer tonight. A 50 year old series which really does stand watching again, 50 years on from the first time.

I'm not sleepy. Watching MOTD........something I rarely do.

 

[classic33]

I think you are sensible - same ethos here.

Conditions need to be just right to properly enjoy an outdoor activity.

No kudos given in our house to those hardy Bear Grylls types.

"Bear" Grylls has nothing on Paddington Bear. He doesn't like going out if it's raining, unless there's a camera on him!

He's no fan of spending a night under canvas(Nylon is more likely these days) either.

 

[classic33]

I’ll probably watch Countryfile at 7. I don’t think it’s as good as it used to be but it’s looking back at farming over the last 100 years so should be quite interesting.

Did they show the haymaking and the stooking of the oats, for keeping them dry until the threshing mill could get there?

Done both, and a few more now considered outdated.

 

[Exlaser2]

"Bear" Grylls has nothing on Paddington Bear. He doesn't like going out if it's raining, unless there's a camera on him!

He's no fan of spending a night under canvas(Nylon is more likely these days) either.

Bear Grylls is simply a fraud. The journeys he has supposedly completed are impossible unsupported in the time scale. According to other wilderness experts ……… and reportedly ex members of the SAS.

 

[classic33]

Bear Grylls is simply a fraud. The journeys he has supposedly completed are impossible unsupported in the time scale. According to other wilderness experts ……… and reportedly ex members of the SAS.

I only know him from his time as Chief Scout. Hence the piece about him not liking camping.

 

[rustybolts]

Going to Lough Rynn Castle for a few days with her indoors , bringing some books to read ,

 

[rustybolts]

Good afternoon all
I was going to watch the first stage of the Tour of Britain on ITV4. But for some reason they showed an extra episode of the Sweeney with Diana Dors in it, and then a fishing program. The Tour seems not to be on, even though ITV4 were advertising the fact that they were showing it.

it was on ITV4 + 1 , I saw it , very wet conditions

 

[rustybolts]