The Retirement Thread
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Poacher
Gravitationally challenged member
- Location
- Nottingham
Phone caller on Jeremy Vine TV programme just now: "I think Phillip Schofield saw a part of himself in this young lad." Wow! Just wow!
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
It's two weeks since we saw small person. She has changed a lot. Proper sentences is the BIG change. SP is 2½, Mr and Mrs P have a combined age of 134.
Current score:
SP 3 OAPs 0
Current score:
SP 3 OAPs 0
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Probably time to start watching what you say around her
Our smallest is about that age and repeats things he hears - which is not alway required!!
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
Well, it is approximately 20 miles.
Last report I had, at 11:40, they had done just over 8 miles.
Their plan is G&T ; Food ; G&T in Durham this evening.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Done walking again, nice in the sun shine, but bloody cold in the shade with this NE wind blowing
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
RIght - bike brakes fixed - LBS was nice about it
so went for a ride to burn off teh tea and toasted teacake I was forced to have while waiting for the LBS
only a short ride - probably only about 13 miles up to The Dream (if you go on the M62 around warrington/St Helens you can see it - it looks like a knob!
but on the way I managed to save the lives of 2 people
well - when I say save - I mean avoid killing them
first was a little girl - about 5/6 or so - ina pretty sundress and blond curls - happily dancing along the road outside the Pharmacy behind 2 adults
The road at this point is just the entry to the medical centre and a council building so little traffic
anyway they were walking on the edge of the road and she was dancing hapily around - and as I approached she danced happily to her left
right in front of me without seeing me
her parents had no idea because they were talking and about 20 yards ahead
if I had not taken my normal attitude of not trusting the directional stability or speed of dogs and kids then she would have had tyre tracks up her pretty summer dress!
and then at the end of the ride a woman crossed directly in front of me as I crossed at some traffic lights - she looked left - down the road - but not right - across the traffic lights.
I slammed on the brakes and stopped at which point she noticed me and looked while commenting "Sorry" in an extremly sarcastic and unsorry tone of voice
Oh yes - and she was wheeling a bike!!!
maybe I should wear more hi-vis than my vest and helmet to make me more visible
maybe I should add a permanent sound to my bike to I can be heard more easily
there is a bouncy castle van around that plays "Baby Shark" on air horns all the time - wonder if I could fit them to my bike?????
anyway
end rant
Oh - and ERNIE seems to be ignoring me
so went for a ride to burn off teh tea and toasted teacake I was forced to have while waiting for the LBS
only a short ride - probably only about 13 miles up to The Dream (if you go on the M62 around warrington/St Helens you can see it - it looks like a knob!
but on the way I managed to save the lives of 2 people
well - when I say save - I mean avoid killing them
first was a little girl - about 5/6 or so - ina pretty sundress and blond curls - happily dancing along the road outside the Pharmacy behind 2 adults
The road at this point is just the entry to the medical centre and a council building so little traffic
anyway they were walking on the edge of the road and she was dancing hapily around - and as I approached she danced happily to her left
right in front of me without seeing me
her parents had no idea because they were talking and about 20 yards ahead
if I had not taken my normal attitude of not trusting the directional stability or speed of dogs and kids then she would have had tyre tracks up her pretty summer dress!
and then at the end of the ride a woman crossed directly in front of me as I crossed at some traffic lights - she looked left - down the road - but not right - across the traffic lights.
I slammed on the brakes and stopped at which point she noticed me and looked while commenting "Sorry" in an extremly sarcastic and unsorry tone of voice
Oh yes - and she was wheeling a bike!!!
maybe I should wear more hi-vis than my vest and helmet to make me more visible
maybe I should add a permanent sound to my bike to I can be heard more easily
there is a bouncy castle van around that plays "Baby Shark" on air horns all the time - wonder if I could fit them to my bike?????
anyway
end rant
Oh - and ERNIE seems to be ignoring me
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Crieff is now losing its last bank. Bank of Scotland is closing in February. We have gone from 4 banks to zero in just a few years. I know it’s a sign of the times with everything going digital but if we ever lose our post office too, there will be nowhere at all to deal with transactions. 
Exlaser2
Veteran
That’s so wrong in so many ways. We should have laws again it , like they do in France were local governments can make banks work together to make sure at least one bank is kept open.Crieff is now losing its last bank. Bank of Scotland is closing in February. We have gone from 4 banks to zero in just a few years. I know it’s a sign of the times with everything going digital but if we ever lose our post office too, there will be nowhere at all to deal with transactions.
Does that mean your nearest bank is now Perth ?
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Yes, we do have a post office where you can do some banking. Surely it will survive. We have new houses going up at a rapid rate, yet our facilities seem to be getting worse.
There is talk about having a banking hub in towns where you can do your banking, no matter which bank you use.
But it is only talk at the moment.
Around my way in North London, all the banks seemed to of closed every other branch, so there are banks and building societies in Barnet, but nothing in Whetstone. North Finchley has branches, but not Church End Finchley, and so on.
But it is only talk at the moment.
Around my way in North London, all the banks seemed to of closed every other branch, so there are banks and building societies in Barnet, but nothing in Whetstone. North Finchley has branches, but not Church End Finchley, and so on.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Well, it is approximately 20 miles.
Last report I had, at 11:40, they had done just over 8 miles.
Their plan is G&T ; Food ; G&T in Durham this evening.
8hrs 20mins at that rate, good going!
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Crieff is now losing its last bank. Bank of Scotland is closing in February. We have gone from 4 banks to zero in just a few years. I know it’s a sign of the times with everything going digital but if we ever lose our post office too, there will be nowhere at all to deal with transactions.
Around 90% of UK bank a/c holders now use online banking of which two thirds use mobile devices to access them.
Not been inside a bank for many years now.
I think they will have disappeared totally within a couple of decades.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
- Location
- South Tyneside
I am afraid they have pulled the plug. Stopped at 12.3 miles. Not the 76 year old, but, the 50 year old, couldn't continue.
I don't know, these youngsters today.............
I do think they did very well, but, I shan't say anything
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Crieff is now losing its last bank. Bank of Scotland is closing in February. We have gone from 4 banks to zero in just a few years. I know it’s a sign of the times with everything going digital but if we ever lose our post office too, there will be nowhere at all to deal with transactions.
We lost are PO several years ago An Asian family took over the PO in what was a video shop . They have expanded the shop .Selling news papers etc and general store items . A ram raid nearly shut them down .The family lived in a flat above the shop and it was pure luck the front of the building didn’t collapse. The village rallied round giving moral and practical support.
I’m happy to say the shop is back up and running,It would have been a grate loss to the village Its the sort of place if they don’t stock some item Just mention it and they get it
