The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Productive morning in my workshop.
I made another Bantam engine stand (seem to sell well) and a fork seal holder tool for BSAs.

Off down the pub now.

 

[BoldonLad]

@PaulSB you mentioned that your passport only has 6 months left on it, will you be renewing it ?
Mine runs out in June and im unsure whether it's worth renewing. I can't see me going abroad again.

A little story. Mrs @BoldonLad has Alzheimers Disease. Yesterday, she became confused, when trying to access he online bank account, and, was locked out of her account. I was able to get it sorted by following the bank's (online) instructions, which involved:

a) from the banking app, take a photograph of the Id page of her passport
b) take a "selfie" of Mrs @BoldonLad
c) place Mrs @BoldonLad's phone (cover removed) on the "chip" of her passport

So, Passports may have uses, beyond travel 😂

 

[numbnuts]

Fish pie, carrots and spinach for lunch

 

[welsh dragon]

My god the weather is horrible. Its a tad warmer but its heaving down with rain and very windy. I had to go to town for some odds and sods and its so damp, mu indicater was sticking.

 

[Dave7]

A little story. Mrs @BoldonLad has Alzheimers Disease. Yesterday, she became confused, when trying to access he online bank account, and, was locked out of her account. I was able to get it sorted by following the bank's (online) instructions, which involved:

a) from the banking app, take a photograph of the Id page of her passport
b) take a "selfie" of Mrs @BoldonLad
c) place Mrs @BoldonLad's phone (cover removed) on the "chip" of her passport

So, Passports may have uses, beyond travel 😂

Thanks for that
Tell me..... would the passport have done the trick if it was expired ?

 

[welsh dragon]

We had leftover spaghetti and meatballs we froze what was left and are having it today.

 

[HarryTheDog]

Cooking Shepherds pie?

Deconstructed Shepherds pie, ie mince,onion and carrots, with mash on the side.
Busy day, woken by window cleaner who I had forgotten about knocking on the door.
Took Fiancee's grandsons bike I fixed over to her house, she has him for today and he was pleased to get his bike back. ( his dad is a carpenter and is mechanically inept)
Fitted a rim lock to her back gate, her son the carpenter was supposed to do it something like 5 years ago but never got around to it. Now he has finally moved out ( bought a house) the job has been passed to me .
Lunch, then Pilates, then Zwift session and this evening Latin Ballroom practice 8-10pm.

 

[mikeIow]

A little story. Mrs @BoldonLad has Alzheimers Disease. Yesterday, she became confused, when trying to access he online bank account, and, was locked out of her account. I was able to get it sorted by following the bank's (online) instructions, which involved:

a) from the banking app, take a photograph of the Id page of her passport
b) take a "selfie" of Mrs @BoldonLad
c) place Mrs @BoldonLad's phone (cover removed) on the "chip" of her passport

So, Passports may have uses, beyond travel 😂

That's a good point.....I am now the proud owner of a new phone (BIG "down under" RTW trip later this year, wanted a better camera on my phone), & it took more than a day to get things safely transferred....
.....& adding one of my payment cards to the phone wallet needed my passport to be scanned!
(can't remember which - two needed a selfie, one needed me to record a video....what a faff!)

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Very cold. Very wet. Very misty. Very bored.

Worst weather ever, since we moved to L.District 28 years ago.

Have a good day, all.

 

[BoldonLad]

Thanks for that
Tell me..... would the passport have done the trick if it was expired ?

I don't know, Mrs @BoldonLad's is still current.

What interested me was... there was no human involvement, and, the process was quite quick. However, to me, it was not really secure. Given Mrs @BoldonLad's condition, I have Power of Attorney, but, I could have been a burglar who had broken into her house, all I needed was access to the Passport, and, access to Mrs @BoldonLad.

Having said that, it was convenient, much more so that the "old" route of cancelling card, obtaining a new personal Id from the bank (via snail mail). The previous occasion this happened, it took about ten days to get it sorted out.