The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

No point in owning a phone if you don't keep it with you and switched on.

I find this weith the grand kids parents

we send them a message asking what time we should be picking the kids up

then we end up guessing and just going round
to find they both had their phones on silent

but if they need to get hold of us they get grumpy if we don't get back to them with 17 milli-seconds!

 

[classic33]

Well we are back from the "Old Boys" do at my old school

My wife came along as, for the first time, partners were invited and there was a tour of the school

I did seem to be the one encouraging people to wander off down paths that were not on the tour
in one case to see if some "huts" were still there that were certainly build when asbestos was though to be a wonderful thing in house and schools etc!

they were still there and looked identicalt wo when we were there!

we then had dinner as part of the event and the food was great - not at all like the school dinners when we were there - which was mentioned a few times!

we went to the main school hall - it was noted that this went across some garden where some of teh teacher lived
for some reason, some of us clearly remembered the wife of one teacher who liked to sunbathe in their garden in hot weather
(I say some - one person didn't and it turns out he is gay - they rest of us.....)

anyway - inside there were a few pictures of some notable people who had been at the school
one was in our year and had been down to be with us but backed out at the last minutes
his picture was huge - there were more than a few comments about it - pity he wasn't there he hear them!!



Different reaction to the plaque in the chapel for another one of "us lot" who crashed flying a Harrier when the engine failed coming off a carrier


but it was a great evening - and my wife got to see the school went to

Interesting evening and more than a few drinks were had

If you've seen Ackley Bridge, you'll have seen my old school. Knocked down this year.

I was correcting the location director and director when they were shown round another building they wanted to use. Able to give a turn by turn, step by step guide to moving around the building. The fact that the door marked "office", on the first floor of the new building, was actually the girls toilets outside B14. There was a proper office twenty feet to the left, along the corridor and just before the doors. Not set foot in it since I left but still knew my way round better than they did.

 

[Exlaser2]

Night night all

 

[classic33]

Night night all

Sithi

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[rustybolts]

 

[classic33]

Night Johnboy.

Night Mary Elle

 

[PeteXXX]

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