The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

The sun is out now and it's a tad breezy so I have put the bedding in the washing machine. I'll put it out to dry when it's finished. You have to take the opportunity to dry stuff outside whenever you can.

Raining here now! Hopefully the forecast is correct and it goes off around lunch time.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well that didn't work out well. The sun is shining. ✔️. Put bedding in the washing machine. ✔️. 20 minutes later the sky is dark and its hissing down. ✔️

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

@classic33 Your in depth knowledge is required.
MrsD has had some weird dreams.
•3 nights ago (in her dream) I killed a woman with a screwdriver then dumped her body in our dining room.
•next night it was all about me breaking the spout off her best teapot.
•last night it was all about 1/2 an onion that I had left on the kitchen floor.
Now, I have checked and there is no dead body in the dining room.
What do you deduce from all that ?

Correction
There is no dead body in the dining room YET

maybe start making a patio - just in case you need it???

 

[classic33]

Morning all

Off to Wells in a couple of hours.
We're staying at the 15th C, Grade 1 listed Crown Hotel on the market Square, as featured in the film Hot Fuzz, in the middle of the city.
It's market day today, so we'll have a mooch around when we get there.
Looking around the cathedral tomorrow.

Wasn't another hotel used for the interior shots.
You'll be doing it for the greater good I'll assume.

 

[rustybolts]

While in Albuquerque,NM almost 800 miles south, my neighbor who has been checking on my house, setting the faucets to drip during some -2F nights here in Casper WY, and getting the mail, gave me call. He found some water in the lower floor of my house soaking the concrete laundry room floor and a square yard of the carpet in the family room next to it. He turned off the kitchen faucet and it stopped. I had planned to come home on Friday, the 25th after Thanksgiving with the Albuquerque clan on the 24th, but left Sunday, spent the night with youngest son in Denver and got here yesterday afternoon. Apparently after only 47 years since this place was built, the hard water we have finally ate through the sink drain. Today I will hit the grocery store and get a new drain at the hardware store and repair the sink. It will snow tomorrow and then warm up a tad. Good to be home, though.

Bit of a nuisance but it could have been worse. Water can do some real damage if its not noticed

 

[rustybolts]

@classic33 Your in depth knowledge is required.
MrsD has had some weird dreams.
•3 nights ago (in her dream) I killed a woman with a screwdriver then dumped her body in our dining room.
•next night it was all about me breaking the spout off her best teapot.
•last night it was all about 1/2 an onion that I had left on the kitchen floor.
Now, I have checked and there is no dead body in the dining room.
What do you deduce from all that ?

I dont know.. but I wish I had whatever she's taking for a nightcap

 

[classic33]

@classic33 Your in depth knowledge is required.
MrsD has had some weird dreams.
•3 nights ago (in her dream) I killed a woman with a screwdriver then dumped her body in our dining room.
•next night it was all about me breaking the spout off her best teapot.
•last night it was all about 1/2 an onion that I had left on the kitchen floor.
Now, I have checked and there is no dead body in the dining room.
What do you deduce from all that ?

What's weird about those?

Was the woman you killed younger than both of you? I hope you had a plastic sheet down, be messy otherwise. T'would also explain the half onion on the kitchen floor. Get her to describe the screwdriver, and the chances are you know where it should be, but it isn't there.

You moved the body into the kitchen, used the screwdriver to assemble some flat pack furniture, and the onion is to cover the smell.
You breaking the spout off her best teapot is the serious bit.
The teapot, a symbol of friendship, of telling stories and confiding in each other. There it sat between your friends and your teacups, loyally keeping the tea warm, listening in on your conversations and never telling a soul what it's heard.
Interesting it were the spout you broke off as something will be heard, that would be better unheard, but when heard you'll not unhear. There's something going to be spilt, and it won't be milk.


Can I copyright this version of Cluedo?

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. After a rainy night it is now quite nice out, perfect for a ride but Mrs G has other plans. I can see the wallpapering table set up with wallpaper on it so I guess I am going to be busy shortly and as it gets dark early now, the bike is not going out today.
I must also say that decorating is certainly not on my list of favorite things to do but it is cheaper than having to pay someone to do it.
Oh well, let's get it over with. I shall go and change into my DIY clothes now.

 

[Dave7]

Bonjour. After a rainy night it is now quite nice out, perfect for a ride but Mrs G has other plans. I can see the wallpapering table set up with wallpaper on it so I guess I am going to be busy shortly and as it gets dark early now, the bike is not going out today.
I must also say that decorating is certainly not on my list of favorite things to do but it is cheaper than having to pay someone to do it.
Oh well, let's get it over with. I shall go and change into my DIY clothes now.

I maybe one of those odd people but I used to enjoy decorating.
I found the prepping laborious but enjoyed the rest. There was as time (many years ago) that I actually thought about it for a living.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have nearly finished the teddy bears for my grandsons girlfriend. Body, arms, legs, ears and nose on. Scarf as well. I just need to make the legs a bit more secure and and some black yarn to his nose to make it stand out and we are food to go.

Chicken with curry and rice today.

I now have my bedding hanging on the door and draped across the dining table drying. We'll hopefully drying that is.

 

[welsh dragon]

I maybe one of those odd people but I used to enjoy decorating.
I found the prepping laborious but enjoyed the rest. There was as time (many years ago) that I actually thought about it for a living.

I quite like painting. I know, I must be weird

 

[gavroche]

Well, dark clouds are gathering now so may be decorating is a better option.

 

[Dave7]

I quite like painting. I know, I must be weird

I used to paint while in the nude.
The neighbours weren't happy when I was doing the outside gutters but heyho.

 

[Mo1959]

I used to paint while in the nude.
The neighbours weren't happy when I was doing the outside gutters but heyho.

Handy for hanging the paint can

 

[welsh dragon]

Handy for hanging the paint can