The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Bonjour tout le monde.
I had my cataract operation yesterday
All went well and the staff there was brilliant. Top marks from start to finish.
The only drawback now is that I can't ride my bike, do exercises or lift anything for the next 4 weeks.

4 WEEKS
I thought recovery was just days/maybe a week.
I need mine doing, the left one in particular. I am putting it off as i have an appointment at he hospital opthalmology dept in 3 weeks. Its a different but related problem (if that makes sense) so they may well push me into having them done asap.

 

[PeteXXX]

Thwim has been thwum.. ¾km today 🏊

The other ¼km was the thwim to the bus station 💦 ☔

 

[Drago]

Hate this cold damp weather. My Meccano elbow is aching like a beach.

 

[postman]

My parents wouldn’t have a TV in the house and it was a thoroughly miserable childhood,

We didn't have tv till 1970,me and my eighteen brothers and sisters had no idea what they did for fun up till then.

 

[postman]

My Meccano elbow is aching like a beach.

Well you live and learn i am 76 in February and i have never heard that phrase or idiom ,whatever that is .i have just had to look the saying up.Ten points to Drago and Slytherin oh sorry that is Draco.

 

[Drago]

I got an elbow full of tinware that resembles meccano.

 

[Binky]

Just got back from one of those OAP days where you fit as many things as possible into 'one trip'.

Stop 1. GP pharmacy to pick up my 'drain on the NHS' prescriptions. Success!

Stop 2. VW main dealer visit to get quote to supply and fit new front top grill due to suicidle Pheasant impact. £300 to supply and fit about £10 worth of plastic. £100 of which is labour to: remove 5 torx screws, lift off bonnet release lever, pull grill off, release radar sensor cable and reverse using new grill. 20 mins tops. If it needs recalibrating it will be another £300 - I don't think it needs this, though.

Earliest date they can do is end March. Courtesy car now costs £25 for the day so it is no longer really a courtesy car! Success of sorts?

Stop 3. Nevisport Kendal. Closed all day every Thursday according to sign on the door. Failure. Loss to them c£220.

Stop 4. Next Kendal. Mrs SD wanted a 3 pack of padded socks in black and in white. White out of stock. 50:50. Loss to them £10

Stop 5. Boots Kendal. We wanted 2 new toothbrushes. Out of stock. Failure. £8 Loss to them.

Stop 6. McD Kendal. For a pee. Success!

Stop 7. Sports Direct. For 2 pairs Nike jogging bottoms. Out of stock. Failure. Loss to them £110.

Stop 8. Sainsbury petrol station. Success.

And they say support your high street!

A day of purgatory!

Enjoy the balance of your day, all.

Could you not purchase grill yourself and do yourself and save a ton of money? Seems a simple job?

 

[postman]

I got an elbow full of tinware that resembles meccano.

How does an Airport scanner react.Are you surrounded by security.

 

[numbnuts]

I think it has stopped raining

 

[Drago]

How does an Airport scanner react.Are you surrounded by security.

Its not been a problem yet, not been scanned at any port since it was done, and I can show them on the NHS app.