The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Morning all

Not raining at the moment but looks like we have some on the way.
Got the frog chorus this morning! Will have to check the pond later.
Off to the Railway Inn for lunch later.

 

[welsh dragon]

I read yesterday that in Wales in has rained every day since the beginning of the year ☔️

It has. We have a leak in the roof, not surprising with the amount of rain we.had had. It can't be fired though until it stops raining, so it's going to be some time before that happens. Lots of people around here have leaking roofs because of the sheer volume of rain

 

[welsh dragon]

That's because Wales is storing water in anticipation of the hot summer coming later.

I think i need to buy a snorkel and flippers and possibly a dinghy as well.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning, another decent looking cycling day out there but Paul is on family duties. We're having lunch with #1 son, our DIL and #2SP and #2 son. Complicated? That's two sons, a daughter-in-law and granddaughter! Phew!

So I need exercise and having coffeed and breakfasted I'm off to the gym. 👋👋

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I read yesterday that in Wales in has rained every day since the beginning of the year ☔️

Which year???

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Which year???

To be fair - I used to teach in Rhyl
and that was, at the time, one of the driest places in the country - it very seldom rained as the land was so flat there until you reached the subhills of the mountains when the clouds took one look at what was coming up that they panicked and dumped all the rain

But on the way home to Bangor in bad weather there was always a point on the A55 where it was totally dry
then suddenly there was a dividing line somewhere around Llanfairfechan where it was wet
often very wet

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just watching the WInter Olympics

Ice Hockey is on

I have no clue where the puck is most of the time
if someone shoots for goal the presence of the puck in this version of reality seems to me to become rather loosely defined until it suddenly appears in co-ordinates defined - as far as I can see - by a series of randomised factors

I think Schrödinger was watching Ice Hockey when he came up with his cat-box theory

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

To be fair - I used to teach in Rhyl
and that was, at the time, one of the driest places in the country - it very seldom rained as the land was so flat there until you reached the subhills of the mountains when the clouds took one look at what was coming up that they panicked and dumped all the rain

But on the way home to Bangor in bad weather there was always a point on the A55 where it was totally dry
then suddenly there was a dividing line somewhere around Llanfairfechan where it was wet
often very wet

As an addendum to that

One year we had a new head - the 3rd or 4th in a few years depending on who you count

Anyway - it was winter and a day or so after she arrived there was a big snow warning
so she asked the senior staff that had lived there for a while what the plans were and what the chances of having to close the school were

she was told
"nah - don;t worry - we never close because it never snows here - never been known in decades - literally"

the next day she had to close the school and it didn;t re-open for THREE WEEKS!!

the school was fine - we had to stay closed because the LEA was worried about the poor little darlings falling on snow or ice while walking to school!!!

Boy were those lessons well planned for the rest of that year!!!

(before anyone else says it - when they came back I asked my class what they had been doing for those 3 weeks
The girls had been walking to each others houses and to the shops and all that
the boys had been running around chucking snowballs and playing football
no-one had been hurt!!!)

 

[Drago]

As an addendum to that

One year we had a new head - the 3rd or 4th in a few years depending on who you count

Should have given up while you're a head.