The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

MrsD says don't be a wimp and get the cataract done now. You can thank her later.

I am of a very delicate disposition.
It's OK for her, she is a woman and handle such things.

 

[Mo1959]

I am of a very delicate disposition.
It's OK for her, she is a woman and handle such things.

I am a woman and can’t handle medical stuff. I get distinctly queasy and faint with stuff like that, but the benefits do sound so good that I might have to pluck up the courage some time in the future.

 

[Drago]

Mrs D back from her interview. Late lunch at the garden centre.

 

[Mo1959]

I see Robert Redford has died.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just come back from the hospital - and different one to yesterday

it was to see how my wife's CPAP machine is going on and whether or not she needs a new mask
(it is to help breathing overnight - bit like something Darth Vader would wear - and makes her sound like him as well!)

lots of discussions about straps and lube

I managed to refrain from making comments

 

[Dave7]

I am a woman and can’t handle medical stuff. I get distinctly queasy and faint with stuff like that, but the benefits do sound so good that I might have to pluck up the courage some time in the future.

I will do it.....I have decided. I have gone down the new specs route for now as I am borderline.

 

[Dave7]

I see Robert Redford has died.

Aged 89.
Very much an actor of our generation. I just told my daughter and her 1st response was "who"?.
I think The Sting was my favourite.

 

[Paulus]

Aged 89.
Very much an actor of our generation. I just told my daughter and her 1st response was "who"?.
I think The Sting was my favourite.

I can't decide if Butch Cassidy, or Out of Africa is my favourite film of his.

 

[Paulus]

One of three very handsome actors of that time, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Redford.

 

[BoldonLad]

1st thoughts......... absolutely NO CHANCE of an injection .

+1 😂

 

[BoldonLad]

MrsD says don't be a wimp and get the cataract done now. You can thank her later.

Mrs @BoldonLad had both eye "done" (not at same time time), several years ago, I get the same "wimp"comments from her, plus the usual "it's a good job men don't have the babies, the human race would be extinct" 😂

 

[Drago]

Mrs D got the job. She starts next Wednesday, pops in on Monday to meet her team.

She'll be based locally only 10 minutes from home, so an enormous saving on time each week.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Music bites:

1) We are thoroughly contemporaneous in our tastes but occasionally like to revisit former decades but struggle with finding a radio station that we like.

R2 is a bit twee & old fogey for us, but Virgin Radio Chilled, which we have just discovered, fits the bill.

70's to 90's hit after hit without the Beeb's presenter-prattle. Worth a shot, imo.

2) Just ordered some "earbuds" via that megastar of the fullfillment world - Amazon! Never tried them before, they will be here tomorrow. Looking forward to trying them. Anyone else use them?

 

[Dave7]

Mrs D got the job. She starts next Wednesday, pops in on Monday to meet her team.

She'll be based locally only 10 minutes from home, so an enormous saving on time each week.

Nice one, good result.
I once had a job and the company relocated to Wakefield so, twice a week I had to travel SEVENTY MILES to the office ie 140 miles per day......a right royal pain in the ar*e that was.

 

[Dave7]

Music bites:

1) We are thoroughly contemporaneous in our tastes but occasionally like to revisit former decades but struggle with finding a radio station that we like.

R2 is a bit twee & old fogey for us, but Virgin Radio Chilled, which we have just discovered, fits the bill.

70's to 90's hit after hit without the Beeb's presenter-prattle. Worth a shot, imo.

2) Just ordered some "earbuds" via that megastar of the fullfillment world - Amazon! Never tried them before, they will be hear tomorrow. Looking forward to trying them. Anyone else use them?

Re earbuds.....I couldn't get used to them. Maybe I have funny shaped lugholes.