The Retirement Thread

[Flick of the Elbow]

Morning all.
Another very wet one here.
Cleaner coming at 10.
Electrician here at 09.30. He has 3 jobs to do. After all this time I have had a socket fitted outside the garage. Problem is every now and again we are plague by our visiting travelling friends and they think nothing of parking on your drive a plugging in to you supply.
So one job is to put an isolation switch inside the garage.
Oh yes.....I have to put the bedding in to wash.

Seriously, you have random passers-by, not friends, parking in your drive and plugging into a power socket ?

 

[Paulus]

Morning all. The sun is shining.
I'm off too Ware, on the edge of Hertford to meet a couple of friends at the Waterside inn at lunchtime.
It's a bus ride and train ride, but should only take about an hour to get there. And of course home again.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay! Fish Friday!
Few bits and pieces to do this morning, then we'll have a stroll down to the harbour.

 

[Dave7]

Seriously, you have random passers-by, not friends, parking in your drive and plugging into

Don't know what's gone wrong but my screen frozen so I have hade to post and edit.
We back onto a park that the gypsies like to take over. They have not done that to me as I have not had an outside socket but they did it to a neighbour.

 

[EltonFrog]

Missing a trick there Dave...


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We had one of those in the 60s when it was £.s.d. When my my mother was broke, she took metal buttons off her coat flattened them, and put them in the slot.
When the man came to collect the money, there was always a rebate, she’d get some cash back and the buttons.

 

[Dirk]

We had one of those in the 60s when it was £.s.d. When my my mother was broke, she took metal buttons off her coat flattened them, and put them in the slot.
When the man came to collect the money, there was always a rebate, she’d get some cash back and the buttons.

?
That doesn't make sense.
If there were buttons in there, instead of coins, I would presume it would be reported.
Meter fraud isn't looked on too kindly.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well my washing is outside but I can say with certainty that I won't get it dry

 

[Dave7]

Well my washing is outside but I can say with certainty that I won't get it dry

Mine goes in the tumble dryer.

 

[Mo1959]

Riverside trail walked, popped into the Co-op for a few bits and pieces and have had my porridge and blueberries.

I have a new addiction…….greek yoghurt with pineapple chunks.

 

[welsh dragon]

Mine goes in the tumble dryer.

I am a skinflint and haven't used my tumble dryer for about 16 months.

 

[Mo1959]

I am a skinflint and haven't used my tumble dryer for about 16 months.

I don’t have one. The dehumidifier does a surprisingly decent job when required.

 

[Dave7]

Riverside trail walked, popped into the Co-op for a few bits and pieces and have had my porridge and blueberries.

I have a new addiction…….greek yoghurt with pineapple chunks.

Can't go wrong with that.

 

[Dave7]

I am a skinflint and haven't used my tumble dryer for about 16 months.

Sue always liked to see washing on the line. However we were plagued by starlings that thought it was funny to eat berries then crap purple sh*t on the clean washing......hence the tumble drier.

 

[Paulus]

I am a skinflint and haven't used my tumble dryer for about 16 months.

Expensive things to run. My next door neighbour never ever puts her washing out on the line. She's either got money to burn, or she somehow circumvented the meter.

 

[Dave7]

I don’t have one. The dehumidifier does a surprisingly decent job when required.

Welshie would need an industrial size humidifier to deal with her bloomers