The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Sorry to see that Mo.
How well did you know her?

Reasonably well. She was pleasant and easy to chat too. Quite a lot of health problems though and very overweight and ate all the wrong things even though she was diabetic. She went into hospital as she wasn’t feeling great and they discovered it was her gall bladder which they got sorted out and she was nearly due to get home then suddenly went downhill with a bad chest infection/Covid. She was only 72.

 

[classic33]

Reasonably well. She was pleasant and easy to chat too. Quite a lot of health problems though and very overweight and ate all the wrong things even though she was diabetic. She went into hospital as she wasn’t feeling great and they discovered it was her gall bladder which they got sorted out and she was nearly due to get home then suddenly went downhill with a bad chest infection/Covid. She was only 72.

The sort you'll miss.

 

[rustybolts]

They were quite a thing in high society at one stage, even King George V had one. On another topic, Boob enhancement. When Mrs Tenkaykev was working on the elderly care ward in our local Hospital she had more than one elderly lady with their bodies showing the inevitable signs of age but still with a quite impressive pair of boobs 😮

floatation devices in an emergency slipping overboard

 

[Dave7]

Just a quick hello while listening to SoTS.
I will report back when I wake up

 

[PaulSB]

I've been wearing similar clothes, amount and style, as I was back in July.

Cold July in Yorkshire this year?

 

[PaulSB]

Hello!. Snowed last night, heavy snow forecast for 07.00 and the yellow weather warning was updated at 6.00am for snow and ice for the next 36 hours........and it's footy at 12.00. BIG coat day I think. My LBS is about five minutes walk from Ewood Park and we will use their car park today as our usual one at the Darwen End, away section, will be rammed with PNE visitors - we don't get let off the official car parks till the away support have dispersed and 6/7000 are expected today. Much quicker to walk round to the LBS after the match. Haven't seen the Rovers for nine weeks, excited.

What else? The club messenger and WhatsApp groups are alive with folk arranging rides.........Zoom meet ups! I don't partake though given +1⁰ is the high for the week perhaps I should? Kindling and logging are on the agenda for the weekend. Almost out of kindling and I need to split logs for next month. The meters are due to be read today. 🤞🤞🤞

 

[Mo1959]

The meters are due to be read today. 🤞🤞🤞

I just got an email from SSE/OVO saying my prices are going up again in January. Sneaky beggars are putting the night rate up for the storage heaters. I turned them up last night anticipating a very frosty morning and it’s not too bad here so I’m too warm now

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooeeeeeee. Not as cold here this morning as it was yesterday, thank god -2. I think last night was the coldest night we were going to get.

We had more snow as well.

I will be pottering today and I will not be venturing outside

Stay safe peeps

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning all,
We’re going to give parkrun a miss today, conditions underfoot are too risky. We’re still meeting up for breakfast as planned, then it’s sleepover for the granddaughter, Santa comes round our way this evening, courtesy of the local Rotary Club 🎅🎅

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

We has SNOW!!
Most unusual for around here!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning from a cold and frosty Coventry, I believe my Good Lady wants to go into town today, I'll have to dig out my mask if we do, I reckon what ever it was that had me feeling rough Monday was picked up on the crowded buses the previous Saturday.

 

[welsh dragon]

Ta dah

 

[Dirk]

Saunton Sands this morning.

 

[welsh dragon]

Its snowing here again.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have been in this area for 8 years

and this is the probably only the second time I have seen proper snow

First time since I bought a sledge when the middle one was a baby - and he is now 6

of course - they live 20 miles away and are not likely to come round today so it will stay in the shed

On a different point there is a school reunion today for my year - but I'm not going as it is in London
as the school is in Birkenhead that shows the kind of person who responded to the concept of a reunion

no way I was trying to justify a trip to London plus a stay overnight just to meet up with a group of people who I have not seen since 1978 and most of who I avoided at school anyway!!

Only shame is that one of them was a very good friend - but I'll sort out a meet up with him next summer