The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

I have risen!

Going to visit Geddy later. Hes 5 weeks old now, another 3 and he can come home to us.

 

[Dave7]

A quick good morning as I feel I will be asleep again soon.
Very wet weather at the moment with a mixed bag in store.
A good sports day on the box with the world athletics plus the Liverpool-Everton Derby game......spoiled for choice.
See you later

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. Bright, sunny and warm darn surf. The forecast is good till around 4.00pm when we are promised heavy showers. I'm sure Mrs P will have today's cultural excursions to account for this.

I'm "enjoying" a Travelodge coffee in a quiet corner of their cafe. Top husbanding as @ebikeerwidnes put it. Mrs P is still sleeping. I suppose I could wander round the corner to Pret but it will be expensive and might involve very sticky calorie laden buns. I'm rather pleased I've managed to control the calorie intake so far.

I think we're going to the Courtauld Gallery this morning. This is also top husbanding, though our marriage has reached the stage when if I'm bored I'm allowed to find a comfy chair! 🤣 Old Masters isn't really my thing. Modern art, impressionists and so on I can get into but not the classical stuff. Frameless yesterday was for me.

I am also missing Rovers at home. This is extreme top husbanding.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

A pottering day today.
Or maybe tinkering.
Haven't decided yet.

 

[gavroche]

Salut. This is our last day of summer so make the most of it.
Tomorrow, autumn will begin With rainy days, storms and shorter days.
At least, the trees will give us beautiful foliage and nature will prepare to slow down and go into hibernation in readiness for a cold and snowy winter.
Enjoy your last day of summer everyone.

 

[Dave7]

Morning all

A pottering day today.
Or maybe tinkering.
Haven't decided yet.

Can a person potter and tinker at the same time ?

 

[PaulSB]

Can a person potter and tinker at the same time ?

Only if one's a woman. Multi-tasking and all that.......

 

[Mo1959]

A good sports day on the box with the world athletics plus the Liverpool-Everton Derby game......spoiled for choice.

I will watch the athletics. I see my footie team played last night and got another win. Hopefully they'll keep this up and be back up in the Premier League next season.

 

[PaulSB]

As previously reported I'm sat in a Travelodge cafe with rather average coffee. I'm slightly hungry and thinking about breakfast. I can see sausages, bacon, beans, hash browns, toast, tomato, mushrooms and scrambled eggs........

I've just realised I can't smell these from 10 feet.........I think we will go somewhere else for breakfast.

That's a rather weird, disturbing? realisation. Anyway the place is filling up and I suspect the staff would appreciate it if I vacated my table. I'll take Mrs P a coffee.......

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Only if one's a woman. Multi-tasking and all that.......

How dare you!!
I am a man and I can do 5 or 6 tasks at once with no problem

OK I will probably forget about 2 or 3 but I can always come back to them later!

 

[Paulus]

As previously reported I'm sat in a Travelodge cafe with rather average coffee. I'm slightly hungry and thinking about breakfast. I can see sausages, bacon, beans, hash browns, toast, tomato, mushrooms and scrambled eggs........

I've just realised I can't smell these from 10 feet.........I think we will go somewhere else for breakfast.

That's a rather weird, disturbing? realisation. Anyway the place is filling up and I suspect the staff would appreciate it if I vacated my table. I'll take Mrs P a coffee.......

Travelodge breakfasts aren't the best, but they are normally included in the room rate.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning folks. Mrs Tkk has just headed off to do parkrun, her first for about six months. All sorts of goings on here, leaky roof expensively fixed, manky old loft insulation removed and bagged for disposal and new stuff purchased. I might have overordered as the insulation arrived on a pallet 😮. The rolls are about 1.2 metres in height so I had a decent workout carrying the 8 rolls from the driveway and putting them temporarily in the kitchen. Then it was carry each roll upstairs onto the landing followed by the " fun " bit, getting them through the loft hatch which was a two stage process of sliding them up the treads of the loft ladder and then getting my shoulder underneath and guiding the roll through the tight hatch space to the point where they would tumble halfway into the loft then sliding them across.
I'm going to leave the "fun" bit of laying it in the loft until my energy levels have recovered.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Good morning folks. Mrs Tkk has just headed off to do parkrun, her first for about six months. All sorts of goings on here, leaky roof expensively fixed, manky old loft insulation removed and bagged for disposal and new stuff purchased. I might have overordered as the insulation arrived on a pallet 😮. The rolls are about 1.2 metres in height so I had a decent workout carrying the 8 rolls from the driveway and putting them temporarily in the kitchen. Then it was carry each roll upstairs onto the landing followed by the " fun " bit, getting them through the loft hatch which was a two stage process of sliding them up the treads of the loft ladder and then getting my shoulder underneath and guiding the roll through the tight hatch space to the point where they would tumble halfway into the loft then sliding them across.
I'm going to leave the "fun" bit of laying it in the loft until my energy levels have recovered.

Sympathy!
I have done that an itched for days after!!