The Retirement Thread

[Binky]

Morning.
Grey and windy but dry so that's a bonus.
Bracing myself for a trip into town for some shopping.

 

[Dirk]

I never drink tea.

I never drink coffee.

 

[Paulus]

A serious question.......why would you put a bolt on the outside of a gate ??? What if someone who is inside wants to get out ?

When I take the dog out we go out of the back door, throught the gate to the sideway. If the dog is is muddy or wet we come back through the back door instead of trailing through the front door and hall.
So, while we are out apart from a hook on the outside, the gate is more or less open. I will be able to use the padlock from the inside of the gate and lock the gate from the outside whilst I am out and no one is indoors. Reversing the procedure when I come home.
Normally the gate is only locked on the inside.
Also when we are on holiday the next door neighbour feeds our cats, so she can lock the gate when she has finished.

PS. We had intruders in the garden the other week whilst we were out, the trail cam in the garden picked them up.

 

[mistyoptic]

Black bin.. General waste
Black with a blue lid.. Recycling
Brown.. Garden waste
Little brown caddy.. Food waste

Green bin: general waste
Brown bin: garden waste
Blue bin: recycling
Blue bag: paper and cardboard

There ought to be a BS for bin colours 😡

 

[Oldhippy]

All calm and mild this morning.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Someone mentioned local honey a few days ago. We get ours from a bloke who was at school with one of our sons who has a number of hives in our suburb.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Morning all.
Woke at 06.30 and genuinely thought it must be 2ish as it was so dark.
Only job today is to strip and wash/dry the bedding. My cleaner will be here at 12.30.
Being an orderly sort of chap (not) my meals are planned.......brunch will be cheese and tomatoes on toast while later meal will be home made curry with rice and naan bread.

So you strip before your cleaner comes???

Anything you want to tell us??

(sorry - I read it quickly at first and missed a few bits - but my initial reading was funnier!)

 

[Baldy]

Back from the clinic, I was in there for all of three minutes. Sat down with a nice cup of tea now.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Today the plan is to nip over to Runcorn and get some more AgeUK leaglets to take around pharmacies

which is really an excuse to have another look in a jewlers there at a necklace that SWMBO might like
I had another option but I went there yesterday and it wasn't as "right" in real life as it looked in the window

It MAY be that the gluten free bakery is open and I might just have to nip in for some sausage rolls!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Green bin: general waste
Brown bin: garden waste
Blue bin: recycling
Blue bag: paper and cardboard

There ought to be a BS for bin colours 😡

I remember an article in the local news when I lived in Bangor
A woman was being prosecuted for putting rubbish in the wrong bins on Anglesey

It turned out that she was confused - because they had 14 different rubbish bags and bins supplied by the council
OK - some were Indoor and Outdoor versions like food waste things
but some places do go way further than others

When I lived in Llandudno Junction I think we had about 6 or different types - bags, crates and bins

so I can see how people might get confused

 

[Dave7]

So you strip before your cleaner comes???

Anything you want to tell us??

(sorry - I read it quickly at first and missed a few bits - but my initial reading was funnier!)

My young cleaner said she has never seen a human body quite like mine.
I took that as a compliment and like to please her.

 

[Paulus]

I remember an article in the local news when I lived in Bangor
A woman was being prosecuted for putting rubbish in the wrong bins on Anglesey

It turned out that she was confused - because they had 14 different rubbish bags and bins supplied by the council
OK - some were Indoor and Outdoor versions like food waste things
but some places do go way further than others

When I lived in Llandudno Junction I think we had about 6 or different types - bags, crates and bins

so I can see how people might get confused

You really would of thought that there would be a kind of standard throughout the country for the colour of bins and there uses.
Mine are--‐---
Black for general rubbish.
Blue, for all recycling.
Green, for the garden waste.
And soon to be----
Brown, for kitchen food waste.

My young cleaner said she has never seen a human body quite like mine.
I took that as a compliment and like to please her.

🤔

 

[PeteXXX]

Two driving school cars in Kingsthorpe this morning. ..
First one: OS headlight not working.
Second one: Similarly, OS headlight not working & rear registration plate so covered in crap that it was unreadable.

No wonder driving standards are so crepe if this is how some people are being taught!

 

[Tenkaykev]

A point of order as your comment is likely to offend hedgehogs everywhere.
The HH in question has 3 1/2 legs** (see how i pay attention) so technically is not a tripod.
**if I recall correctly it's leg was lost at the joint so unless they had to remove what was left my point is valid.
The only recourse is a full apology and then a national pol to choose a suitable name, results published in the National HH News.

It was missing from where the leg enters the torso with no visible stump so I reckon " Tripod " is a fitting name ( and as it was Mrs Tkk who camme up with the name I am not risking changing it for fear or repercussions.

 

[Drago]

I once stopped a car to let the driver know he had a brake light out. Turns out it was a driving test in progress, and upon hearing of the faulty light the examiner pulled the plug then and there.

I bet I was popular!