The Retirement Thread

[PeteXXX]

Morning campers 👋

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

Council meeting this morning.

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeeee. 5 deg here and a quite a wind is getting up as well, not me.

Stay safe peeps

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
A grey start to the day here, and it's not going to improve.
Domestics today, then i have a library book to return and I'll get a haircut. Exciting eh!
If the rain does stop, and i don't think it will i will get out on the bike for a while, if it doesn't, I'll do an hour on the turbo in the mancave.

 

[PeteXXX]

4°c & precipipiddling it down at the moment ☔

 

[Drago]

4°c & precipipiddling it down at the moment ☔

Horrible walking the dogs. Of course, they were originally bred to retrieve fishing nets in the cold waters off Newfoundland (waterproof coats, webbed feet, and that powerful tail for swimming) so they didnt even notice!

 

[Binky]

Morning.
I trust you all took full advantage of that rare lovely day yesterday. Back to normal now, grey, damp and blowing a gale here.
Turbo beckons later methinks.

 

[PeteXXX]

Horrible walking the dogs. Of course, they were originally bred to retrieve fishing nets in the cold waters off Newfoundland (waterproof coats, webbed feet, and that powerful tail for swimming) so they didnt even notice!

I love the smell of wet dog in the morning 🐶 🐕

 

[Drago]

I've got some sheetkicking to do on behalf of the parish council today.

This sign has appeared at a local play park...

All well and good, except we don't own the park or the land and have nothing to do with it so when Johnny Spottiebum falls off their substandard equipment and brains himself his mummy will be on the blower to us demanding compo!

If they don't take it down today I'll be putting a strip of gaffa tape over the pertinent paragraph.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

'Orrible manky weather out there. Bit of a change from yesterday, which was actually quite sunny.
General pottering day in prospect.

Was it a biplane?

First time fixed wing, funnily enough, was in a biplane; a 1948 Stampe - that's me in the front seat.
First time I ever flew in anything was actually in a helicopter.

 

[Drago]

Until recently my Dad owned a plane, a Socata TB20 Trinidad (G-TIBS).

Alas, he was struggling to pass the medical as the big 8-zero approach so he sold it about 2 years ago.

Oddly, although he could fly fixed wing, including multi engine and tail draggers, he couldn't fly rotary wing aircraft... which was a bit of a pain for a helicopter salesman. That said, most of his colleagues couldn't fly at all.

He tells me there are more controls than limbs and like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time, you either get it or you dont.

 

[Dave7]

Horrible walking the dogs. Of course, they were originally bred to retrieve fishing nets in the cold waters off Newfoundland (waterproof coats, webbed feet, and that powerful tail for swimming) so they didnt even notice!

Are you sure they are not really Beavers ?

 

[Dave7]

Morning all

'Orrible manky weather out there. Bit of a change from yesterday, which was actually quite sunny.
General pottering day in prospect.



First time fixed wing, funnily enough, was in a biplane; a 1948 Stampe - that's me in the front seat.
First time I ever flew in anything was actually in a helicopter.

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I honestly read your 1st sentence as 'horrible wanky weather' and thought "that's not like our Dirk" so reread it.

 

[Dirk]

Until recently my Dad owned a plane, a Socata TB20 Trinidad (G-TIBS).

Alas, he was struggling to pass the medical as the big 8-zero approach so he sold it about 2 years ago.

Oddly, although he could fly fixed wing, including multi engine and tail draggers, he couldn't fly rotary wing aircraft... which was a bit of a pain for a helicopter salesman. That said, most of his colleagues couldn't fly at all.

He tells me there are more controls than limbs and like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time, you either get it or you dont.

First time flying in both fixed and rotary I had aerobatic flights.
Helicopter guy threw it around a bit.
In the fixed wing we did rolls, loops, spins and stall turns. Just about managed to keep my breakfast down!
Weirdest sensation was being at the top of a loop and hanging in the harness, upside down, in an open cockpit.

 

[Dave7]

I went up in a Cessna to 2,000 feet for a solo parachute jump.
Really enjoyed it and wanted to take it up but circumstances said otherwise.
I had a 1 hour helicopter flight (do you call them flights??) that Sue bought me as a present. That was also enjoyable. The pilot took us over my house and the family were in the garden, waving.