The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

How many pairs of Jeans did you buy?

None. . I did manage to get Into a pair of jeans that I havnt been able to wear for longtime so I'm .

 

[Dirk]

Bussed it into Barny, did shopping, found a nice jacket in M&S - but didn't have my size, went to Banbury's and very nearly spent £450 on a Barbour jacket - but they didn't have my size either!
Ended up in Wetherspoons for lunch and worked our way through their Christmas ales.

 

[Paulus]

Bussed it into Barny, did shopping, found a nice jacket in M&S - but didn't have my size, went to Banbury's and very nearly spent £450 on a Barbour jacket - but they didn't have my size either!
Ended up in Wetherspoons for lunch and worked our way through their Christmas ales.

That was a much cheaper option.

 

[PaulSB]

Bussed it into Barny, did shopping, found a nice jacket in M&S - but didn't have my size, went to Banbury's and very nearly spent £450 on a Barbour jacket - but they didn't have my size either!
Ended up in Wetherspoons for lunch and worked our way through their Christmas ales.

How much?????

 

[welsh dragon]

How much?????

They are expensive. Mr WD looked at them and bought a cheaper make

 

[12boy]

Paulsb...yes homelessness is a huge problem with no easy solutions. Drug abuse is as well. I have been to Albuquerqe New Mexico several times to see my sister and other family and although they have hundreds of miles of bike paths and many nice little parks there are no public bathrooms because the city does not want to encourage homeless people coming to avoid the hard winters typical of the northern states. Here in Wyoming the homeless population isn't so much male vagrants with drug and mental problems but women and children. It is hard to keep a job without a car and without a job you can't pay rent. Opiod and meth addiction are common, and in Wyoming alcoholism is a seious problem as well. Hopefully this won't get me banned as too political. In a day or so I will go down to the Denver area to dogsit my youngest son's pooch as he and his wife need to fly to Fargo North Dakota for the DIL's grandpa's funeral. Looks like I will be able to go down and back in between storms and high wind conditions. Fingers crossed.

 

[Dirk]

How much?????

£449
Ordered one online now.

 

[welsh dragon]

There have been a lot of programmes on TV here about the problems in the US. Seems odd that a country where the people keep saying it's the greatest on the planet can have so many homeless people. Even working people are living In their cars as they can't afford to pay rent. Hospital patients are taken out of the back of ambulances abd left literally on the street. And the cost of living is worse there than here.

 

[Mo1959]

Faceache is playing up for me. Anyone else?

Wonder what’s going on next door. Haven’t seen the lady for a couple of weeks and now there’s 3 cars there and every room is lit up. Hope it’s not going up for sale and I end up with noisy feckers on that side too.

 

[PaulSB]

Faceache is playing up for me. Anyone else?

Wonder what’s going on next door. Haven’t seen the lady for a couple of weeks and now there’s 3 cars there and every room is lit up. Hope it’s not going up for sale and I end up with noisy feckers on that side too.

Nope, it's OK for me. Fingers crossed 🤞 re the neighbours.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Faceache is playing up for me. Anyone else?

Wonder what’s going on next door. Haven’t seen the lady for a couple of weeks and now there’s 3 cars there and every room is lit up. Hope it’s not going up for sale and I end up with noisy feckers on that side too.

Its fine here.

 

[PaulSB]

I've been having a "discussion" with people on FB re helmet wearing. On my way home from today's ride I made a left turn I've probably made 500+ times. A wide junction which is safe at 13/14 mph.

WHAM! Down I went. Ripped the knee out of my biblongs, hole in the shoulder of my favourite gilet and 18 dints and dents plus one small crush area on my helmet.........

........think I'll carry on wearing a helmet.

Further inspection revealed a diesel spill and a surface like polished glass.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Our Monday night down the club has been cancelled, my temperature is up a little and if I'm about to go down with the lurgy I don't want to risk sharing it with the other pensioners.

 

[PaulSB]

Our Monday night down the club has been cancelled, my temperature is up a little and if I'm about to go down with the lurgy I don't want to risk sharing it with the other pensioners.

Good decision dave. I wish more people would think like this. If folk did the spread of small scale disease would significantly reduce.

👏

 

[Mo1959]

Poor Japan but their penalties were rubbish.