The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Morning. Out at 6 for a 3 mile jog. I got a bit fed up of the low heart rate shuffling and think it might even be exacerbating my sciatica so picked up the pace for the last mile and got the heart rate up and the legs stretching out a bit and think I feel the better for it.

Nice bath had and just having a browse before getting my porridge.

It's a tad dismal and drizzly here, but not cold.

Two hours to jog three miles!
How long would it have taken if you'd not upped the pace?

You got out, that's the main thing. The porridge is a bonus.

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. We don't usually listen to the radio at home but my wife decided to turn it on this morning and guess which station was playing ?
Radio bl***dy one!!! What a lot of crap it is. They play records with no proper tunes and rubbish lyrics so you can guess it didn't stay on for long. I can't get French radio anymore unfortunately but I now play Gold radio in the car and it is very good, with proper songs.
At the moment, Smooth radio is on as I can't find Gold on our set for some reason.
Anyway, the sun is shining today so I will be off for a ride after lunch, making the most of decent weather.

 

[Paulus]

Bonjour. We don't usually listen to the radio at home but my wife decided to turn it on this morning and guess which station was playing ?
Radio bl***dy one!!! What a lot of crap it is. They play records with no proper tunes and rubbish lyrics so you can guess it didn't stay on for long. I can't get French radio anymore unfortunately but I now play Gold radio in the car and it is very good, with proper songs.
At the moment, Smooth radio is on as I can't find Gold on our set for some reason.
Anyway, the sun is shining today so I will be off for a ride after lunch, making the most of decent weather.

Try Boom Radio, online or DAB. No loud presenters, shouting and hollering.
The presenters are from the 60's and
, 70's. Music from the 50's to some modern stuff.

 

[classic33]

Bonjour. We don't usually listen to the radio at home but my wife decided to turn it on this morning and guess which station was playing ?
Radio bl***dy one!!! What a lot of crap it is. They play records with no proper tunes and rubbish lyrics so you can guess it didn't stay on for long. I can't get French radio anymore unfortunately but I now play Gold radio in the car and it is very good, with proper songs.
At the moment, Smooth radio is on as I can't find Gold on our set for some reason.
Anyway, the sun is shining today so I will be off for a ride after lunch, making the most of decent weather.

What about Classic FM?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Bonjour. We don't usually listen to the radio at home but my wife decided to turn it on this morning and guess which station was playing ?
Radio bl***dy one!!! What a lot of crap it is. They play records with no proper tunes and rubbish lyrics so you can guess it didn't stay on for long. I can't get French radio anymore unfortunately but I now play Gold radio in the car and it is very good, with proper songs.
At the moment, Smooth radio is on as I can't find Gold on our set for some reason.
Anyway, the sun is shining today so I will be off for a ride after lunch, making the most of decent weather.

Agreed Radio One is awful, self obsessed presenters, playground humour jokes and celebrity love-ins. Just awful.

Not sure what you mean by a proper song though.

We listen to a lot of modern pop music, usually in excess of 2- 3000 different artists each year.

A lot of it is very, very good - meaningful lyrics and some very clever lyrics too, the music can be fantastic as well - multi layered and with heaps of subtle detail and production standards are generally way ahead of yesteryear recordings.

Don't get me wrong I'm a 70's boy married to an 80's girl and we still listen to the sounds of our youth but the modern pop genre (which these days breaks down into at least 20 sub-genres) really takes some beating. There is, of course, some real dross out there but get beyond that and there is a world of fantastic music available to listen to.

 

[gavroche]

Agreed Radio One is awful, self obsessed presenters, playground humour jokes and celebrity love-ins. Just awful.

Not sure what you mean by a proper song though.

We listen to a lot of modern pop music, usually in excess of 2- 3000 different artists each year.

A lot of it is very, very good - meaningful lyrics and some very clever lyrics too, the music can be fantastic as well - multi layered and with heaps of subtle detail and production standards are generally way ahead of yesteryear recordings.

Don't get me wrong I'm a 70's boy married to an 80's girl and we still listen to the sounds of our youth but the modern pop genre (which these days breaks down into at least 20 sub-genres) really takes some beating. There is, of course, some real dross out there but get beyond that and there is a world of fantastic music available to listen to.

I am stuck in the 60's, 70's and early 80's music, after that, not my thing.

 

[gavroche]

What about Classic FM?

I do listen to Classic FM sometimes, on my own, in the car.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Knackered today for no known reason

However, finally got the energy to go out for a short ride before dark

Only to find that one of the padlocks on the bike shed won;t open
no great problem - WD40/GT85 and maybe some 3-in-1 after and some wiggling

guess which shed the oil and stuff is in???

So I am down to changing a ride into a walk to the shops for a 3rd can of WD40 - or hacksaw followed by walk to the shops for a better padlock

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I am stuck in the 60's, 70's and early 80's music, after that, not my thing.

Fair enough. 🙂

 

[Dirk]

I am stuck in the 60's, 70's and early 80's music, after that, not my thing.

Popular music went down the pan the moment Rap 'music' came on the scene.

 

[Dave7]

Popular music went down the pan the moment Rap 'music' came on the scene.

Call me an old fart but I just cannot stand Rap. I have tried but to me its awful.

 

[Paulus]

Call me an old fart but I just cannot stand Rap. I have tried but to me its awful.

I'm not sure anyone could call "Rap" music.

 

[gavroche]

Call me an old fart but I just cannot stand Rap. I have tried but to me its awful.

I agree with you 100%. How can they call themselves " singers" when all they do is talk. Absolute rubbish and the bits I have heard is full of swear words as well.

 

[cyberknight]

Call me an old fart but I just cannot stand Rap. I have tried but to me its awful.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COCY3UVoTGA

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

First?
Off out for a coastal walk later if the weather holds out.