The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Technically then law wasn't change. The dibble have dwindling resources and increasing workloads so have little choice but to prioritise, and some (not all) use a value based calculation.

My old farce do it on an evidende based assessment. Does the staff member know the suspects name? Is their CCTV that clearly shows their face, selection of goods and concealment of goods, and then passing the point of payment? If the answer is "no" its an evidential dead end and pointless sending a bobby that could be used elsewhere, such as hassling people for airing a legal opinion on X.

People get confused besause theft below falue £200 and theft above have different charging codes, but the law itself is still the same for both (the theft act) and theoretically the punishment can be the same, although sentencing 'guidelines' tend to treat it on a sliding scale.

Just feel that they shouldn't get something for nothing, that I as an employee has to pay to get.
And I paid for thinking like that.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Let the bells ring

let joy be unconfined

let the

whatever the rest is


I have just had an email from Groupon and I can get a Lancashire Canal Cruise

for UP TO 0% off!!!!!


WOW!!!

I will see you on the water!!!


(maybe I should offer to proof read for them???)

 

[Mo1959]

Phew. It’s warm now. Not sure another wander was a good idea. 31,000 steps for the day. That’ll do me.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Last night I had to nip out somewhere and when I started the car the mechanical fault alarm came up

Oh Good!

anyway - problem is that this is also the alarm that warns that the annual service is due
so I assumed that I had missed the service this year - which would make sense as the old car was alwasy due in January
this on is sort of mid year
so I could have got confused - especially as there were several medical things going on then

I checked the MOT and that was OK - due next May
so that was worse - makes it look like the service was done - therefore the light means there is something wrong!!!

anyway - went to the garage today and they were happy to check
service counter looked like it had not been reset

but they ran it through the scanner for free anyway - just to be sure

apparently it is working


which means we will be OK to pick the grand kids up and have them stay tomorrow night

which is - apparently - good!!!

 

[Dave7]

Phew. It’s warm now. Not sure another wander was a good idea. 31,000 steps for the day. That’ll do me.

Quite cool here. Been sat on the patio (on a chair Classic) but I got cold so came in.
I will shortly do myself a toastie with ham, cheese and tomato.

 

[PaulSB]

@Chief Broom......I keep forgetting to mention this. You said your eyes were sore. This is something I get from time to time. Hycosan Extra drops give me relief in less than five minutes and this lasts all day. It's about £10/bottle which lasts for six months after opening. I strongly recommend this if you simply have "dry eye" - that is a recognised condition according to my optometrist at Specsavers.

 

[PaulSB]

Re the shoplifting thing. I think it's recognised thieves are getting more emboldened and brazen. People walk in, pick up stuff and walk out.

Recently our local Aldi had a two week period of ten items or less on the self-scan tills. In one week two thieves walked through with full trolleys, loaded their car and drove off!!! It's all back to normal now.

Brings a whole new dimension to doing the supermarket run.......🤣

 

[Baldy]

Finally got the last train ticket book, still don't know why it wouldn't work yesterday. That's my holiday all sorted, I'm off in three weeks. Next week I'm going to try the five lochs challenge only I'll be doing it over two days not all in one day. then I'll be kayaking out to the Isle of Gigha for a few days before I head out to the Hebrides. A busy few weeks for me.

 

[Mo1959]

Finally got the last train ticket book, still don't know why it wouldn't work yesterday. That's my holiday all sorted, I'm off in three weeks. Next week I'm going to try the five lochs challenge only I'll be doing it over two days not all in one day. then I'll be kayaking out to the Isle of Gigha for a few days before I head out to the Hebrides. A busy few weeks for me.

The couple that lived next door moved and settled on a small holding on Gigha. They are loving it.

 

[Chief Broom]

@Chief Broom......I keep forgetting to mention this. You said your eyes were sore. This is something I get from time to time. Hycosan Extra drops give me relief in less than five minutes and this lasts all day. It's about £10/bottle which lasts for six months after opening. I strongly recommend this if you simply have "dry eye" - that is a recognised condition according to my optometrist at Specsavers.

Thanks Paul , my GP gave me some 'Hylo-Tear' which is Sodium hyaluronate and could be similar to Hycosan but will certainly think about this option. Im hoping that contact lenses might work as i could wear wrap arounds as well. My last bout of eye soreness was rather extreme and lasted about 10 days and only lessening now....looked like i had been in a boxing match!

 

[PaulSB]

All the leaves are brown.........in the last three days the lack of rain locally is beginning to show very clearly. Many trees, mainly horse chestnut and sycamore but also oak and beech, are turning and shedding foliage. Oak trees are dropping immature acorns. It's a survival mechanism.

The undergrowth in spme woods and hedgerows is yellowing and completely wilted. It's very dry and the impact is suddenly showing.

 

[Dirk]

All the leaves are brown.......

.......and the sky is grey...

 

[Drago]

All the leaves are brown.........in the last three days the lack of rain locally is beginning to show very clearly. Many trees, mainly horse chestnut and sycamore but also oak and beech, are turning and shedding foliage. Oak trees are dropping immature acorns. It's a survival mechanism.

The undergrowth in spme woods and hedgerows is yellowing and completely wilted. It's very dry and the impact is suddenly showing.

Yep, starting to look a touch autumnal.

 

[Paulus]

.......and the sky is grey...

I've been for a walk---

 

[Paulus]

All the leaves are brown.........in the last three days the lack of rain locally is beginning to show very clearly. Many trees, mainly horse chestnut and sycamore but also oak and beech, are turning and shedding foliage. Oak trees are dropping immature acorns. It's a survival mechanism.

The undergrowth in spme woods and hedgerows is yellowing and completely wilted. It's very dry and the impact is suddenly showing.

Over our local playing fields, the council has put fences around the very mature Oak trees because of something called sudden branch drop. It has happened in some areas where the trees are so stressed because of the long dry weather that big branches are dropping off with no warning.