The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

I love standing on the decking at the front of my house and hearing absolutely nothing. We might get 6 or 7 cars go up the lane a day and that's it. Total silence accept for the birds.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I love standing on the decking at the front of my house and hearing absolutely nothing. We might get 6 or 7 cars go up the lane a day and that's it. Total silence accept for the birds.

Sounds lovely.

 

[Mo1959]

Have you been watching Malpractice. Won’t say to much as people may not have seen the final episode.

Suffice to say another writer who can’t think how to end a six part series

I binge watched it a few weeks ago and was also disappointed with the ending. Wonder if it's left it open to another series?

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Dirk]

Its usually the first thing I notice when I'm somewhere busy, how noisy it is.

It's very quiet here, just birdsong and the occasional steam train. We don't have traffic noise.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

It's very quiet here, just birdsong and the occasional steam train. We don't have traffic noise.

Similar here re birdsong.

When we talk to people on our phones and the outside doors are open, they often comment on all the birdsong or the sheep baa-ing.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Have you been watching Malpractice. Won’t say to much as people may not have seen the final episode.

Suffice to say another writer who can’t think how to end a six part series

Not seen it tbh.

BBC drama used to be consistently top-notch, and still throws up the occasional gem. But, the overall decline has been obvious for some years now.

Maybe, controversially, they try too hard to tick the PC boxes whilst ignoring the quality of the storyline and acting.

 

[classic33]

Similar here re birdsong.

When we talk to people on our phones and the outside doors are open, they often comment on all the birdsong or the sheep baa-ing.

Resist, must resist...

 

[PaulSB]

Good news. We are no longer homeless. Next stop after Arran will be near Pitlochry. A mere hop, skip and a jump to Edinburgh. Geez.

It's very pleasing to see Scottish tourism so busy this early in the season. Lesson learned I feel, we will be booking earlier another time.

 

[Drago]

I love standing on the decking at the front of my house and hearing absolutely nothing. We might get 6 or 7 cars go up the lane a day and that's it. Total silence accept for the birds.

It's really Q here, but if the weather is still enough I can just hear the railway, which for some reason I quite like.

 

[Drago]

It's very pleasing to see Scottish tourism so busy this early in the season. Lesson learned I feel, we will be booking earlier another time.

My countryman will often moan about it, despite the fact that many of the smaller islands cant sustain an industrial, farming or fishing economy and would be uninhabited without the tourism income.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

@PaulSB

You're not far from @Mo1959 then.

We stayed in one of the turret suites at the Athol Palace Hotel at Pitlochry some while ago - blooming lovely it was too:

https://www.athollpalace.com/room/turret-suites/

 

[Drago]

My countryman will often moan about it, despite the fact that many of the smaller islands cant sustain an industrial, farming or fishing economy and would be uninhabited without the tourism income.

And the good news is...

I had become resigned to staying Poshshire as that's where daughter #3 is and Mrs D was reluctant to move. However, daughter #3 announced u
yesterday that here and her feller are looking at moving to Oz, which leaves me free to move back to the islands and Mrs D has grudingly agreed in principle. Oh to go to bed to the northern lights, or to open the curtains in the morning and see seals at rhe end of the garden. Lumberjack shirts, walking boots and a nacked old Hilux and ill, be in heaven again. I'm thinking Harris (have friends there), or maybe the Uists.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

And the good news is...

I had become resigned to staying Poshshire as that's where daughter #3 is and Mrs D was reluctant to move. However, daughter #3 announced u
yesterday that here and her feller are looking at moving to Oz, which leaves me free to move back to the islands and Mrs D has grudingly agreed in principle. Oh to go to bed to the northern lights, or to open the curtains in the morning and see seals at rhe end of the garden. Lumberjack shirts, walking boots and a nacked old Hilux and ill, be in heaven again. I'm thinking Harris (have friends there), or maybe the Uists.

Aren't the Isles full of incest, alcoholics and religious zealots?

Seriously though, each to their own and we love that part of the world but...

... for us, it is too remote and cut-off to be viable as a permanent location, especially in our advancing years.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Aren't the Isles full of incest, alcoholics and religious zealots?

Seriously though, each to their own and we love that part of the world but...

... for us, it is too remote and cut-off to be viable as a permanent location, especially in our advancing years.

My Good Lady has no wish to move again, but if we did it would not be somewhere remote, I quite like the idea of living somewhere out in the sticks but at our age, we're both in our seventies, it would be a bad idea, we need to be somewhere where we have access to everything.