The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

I’m sure my tinnitus is getting louder. Really whistling just now. Weird as I have never listened to loud music or worked in particularly noisy environments.

 

[welsh dragon]

I’m sure my tinnitus is getting louder. Really whistling just now. Weird as I have never listened to loud music or worked in particularly noisy environments.

I've had that for about 3 years now. Just my left ear thank god. Last week it seemed a bit muted than usual, but this week it is as loud as ever.

For me it's like a high pitched continous sound.

 

[Mo1959]

I've had that for about 3 years now. Just my left ear thank god. Last week it seemed a bit muted than usual, but this week it is as loud as ever.

For me it's like a high pitched continous sound.

No doubt yet another joy of getting older!

 

[Dave7]

No doubt yet another joy of getting older!

My grandson has had it since he was a small child.

 

[Dave7]

Just had these 2 visitors

 

[welsh dragon]

No doubt yet another joy of getting older!

I think so. 😆

 

[welsh dragon]

We had a fox in the field a few days ago. I was surprised at how dark its fur was. Almost black at the back legs and tail

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've had that for about 3 years now. Just my left ear thank god. Last week it seemed a bit muted than usual, but this week it is as loud as ever.

For me it's like a high pitched continous sound.

I've had it for years, a combination of noisy work environment and loud music, I can't listen to silence, its a sssusing noise like an off tune short wave radio.

 

[gavroche]

We are off to Tean ( near Stoke) at about 4 to daughter 1 and then to Bideford in the morning to daughter 2. It breaks the journey up a bit. Back next Friday. I am taking my bike so I can go on the Tarka trail again and other places too while the women do their own thing.
The weather looks very promising so it should be a good week away.
Molly can see the suitcases ready to be loaded and she won't leave my side. Of course she is coming too.

 

[numbnuts]

I've been for a trike ride 17.4 miles, there's a lot of pot holes out there, one I'm going to report.

 

[Mo1959]

I've been for a trike ride 17.4 miles, there's a lot of pot holes out there, one I'm going to report.

The roads are in some state sadly. I see our local council yard has an enormous pile of chippings sitting ready to start top dressing. Hate that stuff. It only lasts a matter of months before it gets broken up and ends up all rough and ridged again.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Just back from Ambleside - Mrs SD bought a couple of new fleece tops. See next para'.

Banging hot out there.

 

[gavroche]

The roads are in some state sadly. I see our local council yard has an enormous pile of chippings sitting ready to start top dressing. Hate that stuff. It only lasts a matter of months before it gets broken up and ends up all rough and ridged again.

Usual "do it in the cheap again" , typical.

 

[Drago]

Just off out to collect Mini D, playing an open air gig this evening. I bet Mick Jagger doesn't walk to school to collect his kids.

 

[Drago]

The roads are in some state sadly. I see our local council yard has an enormous pile of chippings sitting ready to start top dressing. Hate that stuff. It only lasts a matter of months before it gets broken up and ends up all rough and ridged again.

And the chips are themselves an abrasive medium and over the long term a acdelerate the degradation of the road. At best it's a temporary solution to buy time for proper resurfacing, but it gets used time and time again as a repair in its own right.

"We don't afford resurfacing", say the council highways contractor, but they can still afford to take money out as profit.