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.

 

[Dave7]

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.

I'm with TSB and (as a technophobe) I find thier security quite confusing eg to transfer money, particularly to someone new, I have to......
1. Key in 3 random letters or numbers from a previously chosen "memorable word+numbers ie they will tell me which random letters to key in.
2. Key in my password...... this is actually a series of 6 numbers.
3. When I've gone through the transfer malarkey they sometimes ask ma to name the colour of my 1st car or a city I previously designated.

Sue and I had individual ISAs and a joint account. When she died I wanted to transfer her ISA to the joint account. What a palaver that was, bearing in mind we had been with TSB for 50+ years. I even had to take the original death certificate in to the bank** for them to copy and sign..... they wouldn't accept a certified copy.
**just dawned on me, what would have been the situation if, like many banks, the actual branch had closed down ?

 

[Dave7]

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.

People, I assume you, move there for the beauty etc. It must be frustrating when the weather prevents you from enjoying what you moved there for.
May I ask, approximately which part of the lakes are you?
My 1st job in sales was selling wire screening to quarries and my territory included the lakes. I was getting paid to tour the Lake District .......a good job was that.

 

[Mo1959]

It’s been a day of bright spells interspersed with showers here but an awful lot milder. I have opened a couple of windows.

I made a big pot of lentil soup earlier. That’s about the extent my “cooking” runs to.

Nothing much on tv tonight so I’ll watch a few more episodes of a series on Netflix called Everwood. Just a pleasant, easy watch.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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 😂

This is the sort of thing I do with AgeUK - helping people with things like this on phones and tablets etc

big companies seem to think that "everyone" can do stuff like this
and forget that some people have worked all their life without ever using a computer in the modern sense
and get totally panicky when asked to do things like this

It feels like they are trying to exclude the older generation and people who have trouble dealing with modern life
because it is too difficult and expensive to help people "the old way"


Even the NHS App - which we install a lot - can be "difficult"
sometimes I just install it and type in their password - they will have it written down
and that is it - all sorted

Other times - like yesterday - I have to go through all sorts - including a photo of a passport or driving licence
and then a video of then reading out a series of numbers

The poor "older person" was very worried about how she would be able to use it on their own after it took" the expert" (that's me) nearly 3/4 of an hour to set it up

 

[Dirk]