The Retirement Thread

[pawl]

Fforgot to mention that following yesterdays walk the majority decamped to the local 'Spoons for coffee. We used to use the new Methodist Church which had a revamp a few years ago and had a Café which sold excellent coffee and home made cake. Unfortunately following Covid it opened with much reduced opening times. I was patiently waiting in line to be served when I saw they had an offer on beer, with Ruddles being 99p a pint, coffee was £1:20 or thereabouts. I pointed this discrepancy out to Mrs T and we decided on beer. I purchased one pint of Ruddles, one pint of Fuggle de Dum and one pint of Exmoor Beast ( 6.66% ) . I had a couple of the 50p CAMRA discount tokens in my wallet so I handed them over and was happy to pay £4.50 for the round 🍺🍺🍺 😁

Ruddies a good Leicestershire ale

Some
years ago I was camping in Wasdale Lake District Went to the local pub Lo and behold the guest beer was Ruddles .Isaid to the barman I’ll have a pint of my local brew The barman asked me if I came from Leicestershire Told him I lived in Desford .Said he lived in Earl Shilton which is just up the road from me.


Beer Barman and a tourist all from Leicestershire in remote part of the Lake District

 

[classic33]

I just had a sleep

Feel better for it?

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Very encouraging news from our estate agents yesterday - everything is moving along quickly now and we are looking at completion in February.
Fingers crossed!

 

[Dave7]

'Morning all.
We had snow overnight. Can't see how much yet as I can only see the patio.
Its 0° but seems colder.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. Minus 2 and dry so good for a walk again. Better go soon as I am expecting a parcel from the postie so he’s been here around 9 recently if it’s the usual guy.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning all, very cold and frosty out, we are out to lunch then down the club this afternoon, the cafe, Tina's, is closing next month, the building was sold recently and the new owner wants to demolish it and build afresh, cafés been there for ages.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Heavy frost this morning, run postponed until it clears up a bit.
Son phoned yesterday to ask how we’re getting on with the bean to cup machine he gifted us. We explained that we’re running down our stock of ground coffee first before firing up the new machine, only six bags to go 🤔

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeeeee. -1 here. We still have a smattering of snow so it's quite treacherous underfoot I should think.

Bin day for us but the drive was so frozen yesterday that it was dangerous to try to get up it.

Stay safe peeps

 

[PaulSB]

Good day, another light covering of snow and some very heavy hail around 7.00am. Today I have an afternoon with my Cards group. I'm going to pop out and inspect the village road to assess how safe or otherwise it is for people to come along. I'm OK with local conditions but we have some nervous drivers in the group. Apart from that nothing planned though I'm sure things will be found which need doing!

 

[PaulSB]

Remember when this cured everything?

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. Back in the UK now and heading towards the M25. Should be back home and Molly about 2 pm.

 

[Dave7]

Black bin day for us so just been put it out ......it is very icy and dodgy out there.
The bin lid was frozen so I had to force it open.........gone are the days the bin men would do anything more than the absolute minimum.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Remember when this cured everything?

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Yes I remember, mum used to put it on us when we got sunburnt.

 

[Dave7]

I am about to order some home delivery meals.
Its a special, no obligation trial of 7 meals for £20. The normal price would be £50 and I wouldn't pay that.

 

[Dave7]

Yes I remember, mum used to put on us when we got sunburnt.

As kids it was the answer to chicken pox.