The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Just back from a 7.5Km run. It is quite humid out there and feels a bit thunderstormy. Mrs Tkk has just headed out for her run.

 

[Paulus]

The sun has almost broken through the cloud cover, and the temperature has risen quite dramatically because of it.🌞

 

[welsh dragon]

And he’s 40

And a bit

 

[Drago]

Just back from a 7.5Km run. It is quite humid out there and feels a bit thunderstormy. Mrs Tkk has just headed out for her run.

T'was drizzling earlier when I staggered out for a jog, kept me pleasantly coop.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Not the start of a NCAP discussion but I think apathy has set in re the impending election at chez moi.

For the first time ever we are thinking of not bothering to vote on the basis that changes in political direction will make very little difference to us at our time of life.

Probably flawed thinking but, despite being young at heart, very active etc we feel generally out of kilter with what is happening globally and in the UK, especially with the unprecedented societal shifts and new cultural 'norms' that we have witnessed these last few decades.

It's feeling a bit 'not our world' out there.

Anyone else feeling the same?

Is this just an age thing or something else?

 

[Mo1959]

Not the start of a NCAP discussion but I think apathy has set in re the impending election at chez moi.

For the first time ever we are thinking of not bothering to vote on the basis that changes in political direction will make very little difference to us at our time of life.

Probably flawed thinking but, despite being young at heart, very active etc we feel generally out of kilter with what is happening globally and in the UK, especially with the unprecedented societal shifts and new cultural 'norms' that we have witnessed these last few decades.

It's feeling a bit 'not our world' out there.

Anyone else feeling the same?

Is this just an age thing or something else?

The country is fecked……..that’s all I will say.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The country is fecked……..that’s all I will say.

Serious question - do you feel like you are withdrawing from the world? Or maybe you already have?

Feels like we are here.

 

[classic33]

Not the start of a NCAP discussion but I think apathy has set in re the impending election at chez moi.

For the first time ever we are thinking of not bothering to vote on the basis that changes in political direction will make very little difference to us at our time of life.

Probably flawed thinking but, despite being young at heart, very active etc we feel generally out of kilter with what is happening globally and in the UK, especially with the unprecedented societal shifts and new cultural 'norms' that we have witnessed these last few decades.

It's feeling a bit 'not our world' out there.

Anyone else feeling the same?

Is this just an age thing or something else?

Even the younger ones were feeling that way a month ago.

 

[Mo1959]

Serious question - do you feel like you are withdrawing from the world? Or maybe you already have?

Feels like we are here.

Yes, in a way. I haven’t even watched a news on telly for nearly 2 months now. To be honest, I would prefer to live in ignorance of what is going on in this country and elsewhere. I seem to be living more and more of a solitary existence

 

[EltonFrog]

Dogs walked, peloton done, 40 minutes today, whilst I watched the end of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Apart from that, I have achieved the square root of feck all today.
I’ve had two cups of coffee.

 

[postman]

I won't lower myself but Mrs P had to trim a bush which was over hanging the driveway and catching the paintwork on our old banger of a car.What she said made me laugh anyway.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

There seems to be such a dearth of Good News these days (I now sound like my late mum used to!), and where there is, the announcement almost always ends with a "but".

 

[Dave7]

The country is fecked……..that’s all I will say.

Don't wrap it up Mo, say it like it is.

 

[Drago]

Not the start of a NCAP discussion but I think apathy has set in re the impending election at chez moi.

For the first time ever we are thinking of not bothering to vote on the basis that changes in political direction will make very little difference to us at our time of life.

Probably flawed thinking but, despite being young at heart, very active etc we feel generally out of kilter with what is happening globally and in the UK, especially with the unprecedented societal shifts and new cultural 'norms' that we have witnessed these last few decades.

It's feeling a bit 'not our world' out there.

Anyone else feeling the same?

Is this just an age thing or something else?

Not so much apathy here as wilful disinterest.

Politics and the bickering that surrounds it has never interested me, and the older I get the less I care.

If anyone discovers a politics free, or at least general election free, radio station then please let me know. Classic FM have done so in the past, just waiting to see if they'll do so this time around.

Similarly, if Elon wants any volunteers for a crewed Mars mission over the next 6 weeks then I'll be first in the queue.

 

[postman]

Apart from that, I have achieved the square root of feck all today.

That has brought a smile to my face and made me laugh.