The Retirement Thread

[Chief Broom]

Well that was a funny old spin...the head wind followed me around a circular route the forecast hasnt been vey accurate lately, especially wind strength ie a 5mph shouldnt be strong enough to blow yer hat off!

I noticed a house on the outskirts of the town had eggs in his honesty box so nipped back out and managed to get a dozen. It will be interesting to see if they taste better than supermarket eggs. I would suspect so as they are proper running about hens. 🐔

24,000 steps done already.

They certainly are tastier! i made a plain omelette and thought wow! what a difference! Only trouble is road side eggs seem to be much more expensive these days.

 

[Dave7]

Hyponatraemia.

Morning again. It remained cool and misty for my walk. An out and back along a quiet little road I like. 9 miles done.

I managed to increase mine to 2.5 miles today which I am pleased with. TBH Wednesdays 2 miles was harder along the uneven paths, today's was mostly flat.

 

[Dave7]

I noticed a house on the outskirts of the town had eggs in his honesty box so nipped back out and managed to get a dozen. It will be interesting to see if they taste better than supermarket eggs. I would suspect so as they are proper running about hens. 🐔

24,000 steps done already.

Do they show a price or do you give what you feel appropriate?
I sometimes get them from the farm shop as they are from thier own hens but tbh i find the Aldi extra large very tasty and with long use by dates.

 

[Mo1959]

Well that was a funny old spin...the head wind followed me around a circular route the forecast hasnt been vey accurate lately, especially wind strength ie a 5mph shouldnt be strong enough to blow yer hat off!

They certainly are tastier! i made a plain omelette and thought wow! what a difference! Only trouble is road side eggs seem to be much more expensive these days.

They were £2 for 6 which I think is very reasonable? I took a dozen and stuck £5 in the jar.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I retired five years ago, then I got a part time job building bikes at the local Trek shop for fun. Over the past couple of years bikes have become terrible to work on. Internal routing, hydraulics and electronics are bad enough but throw in poor build quality from the factory and a one hour build becomes a two hour pain because you have to disassemble something just to assemble it properly.

yesterday I spent over four hours building a bike. The dropper post cable was jammed in the frame and couldn’t be connected until I pulled the frame covers to remove the internal battery. Then one of the brakes was dry so I had to bleed the brake. Then one of the rotors was bent and needed twenty minutes to correct. Last week I spent six hours on one build and that one isn’t done yet. That’s not fun, that’s a pain… so I’m retired again. Good bye Trek

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I retired five years ago, then I got a part time job building bikes at the local Trek shop for fun. Over the past couple of years bikes have become terrible to work on. Internal routing, hydraulics and electronics are bad enough but throw in poor build quality from the factory and a one hour build becomes a two hour pain because you have to disassemble something just to assemble it properly.

yesterday I spent over four hours building a bike. The dropper post cable was jammed in the frame and couldn’t be connected until I pulled the frame covers to remove the internal battery. Then one of the brakes was dry so I had to bleed the brake. Then one of the rotors was bent and needed twenty minutes to correct. Last week I spent six hours on one build and that one isn’t done yet. That’s not fun, that’s a pain… so I’m retired again. Good bye Trek

I used to work with a bloke who got old bikes from a scrap dealer and built them up for fun
then sold them for whatever he could get for them

Might be an option??
or work for a charity bike thing
or start one yourself

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Right - What year is it???

I'm asking because I have just got a letter from the Inland Revenue
and they have sent me a cheque!!!!

What on Earth am I supposed to do with that???
not seen one for a few decades or so!!!

Luckily I have a Santander account and - by some miracle - they still have a bran open on our high street
so I will go down there on Monday and see what you have to do with cheques

apart from registering them as an historic relic!!

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I used to work with a bloke who got old bikes from a scrap dealer and built them up for fun
then sold them for whatever he could get for them

Might be an option??
or work for a charity bike thing
or start one yourself

There’s is a local bike charity that I spent time at during last winter’s slow period. I’m sure they’ll be delighted to spend some of my spare time.

and it’ll be fun too boot.

 

[Mo1959]

Right - What year is it???

I'm asking because I have just got a letter from the Inland Revenue
and they have sent me a cheque!!!!

What on Earth am I supposed to do with that???
not seen one for a few decades or so!!!

Luckily I have a Santander account and - by some miracle - they still have a bran open on our high street
so I will go down there on Monday and see what you have to do with cheques

apart from registering them as an historic relic!!

Some banks let you take a photo of the cheque and deposit it online. I know I can with TSB.

Sunny now but thankfully not quite as warm as yesterday. Another little wander done so I think that’s me done at 31,000 steps.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Right - What year is it???

I'm asking because I have just got a letter from the Inland Revenue
and they have sent me a cheque!!!!

What on Earth am I supposed to do with that???
not seen one for a few decades or so!!!

Luckily I have a Santander account and - by some miracle - they still have a bran open on our high street
so I will go down there on Monday and see what you have to do with cheques

apart from registering them as an historic relic!!

Santander: you can photograph the cheque and upload to your a/c.

Edit: Mo beat me to it.

 

[postman]

Very bad news this week,we have lost one of our retired Tuesday gang.Billy Mitchell,a great bloke from RM.Bill was the reason we began using Wetherspoons for our meetings.We were talking about having a really good 20th Christmas dinner this year.It will be a bit flat now.We are stunned he went to bed and just continued sleeping.He always did some form of dress up for Christmas.Ex RAF and then Royal Mail i have known him since 1983 when i went 'indoors' to work,rather than slogging it out on the streets in all weathers six days a week for crap money.He will be sadly missed.RIP old chap you were one of the good ones.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Some banks let you take a photo of the cheque and deposit it online. I know I can with TSB.

Sunny now but thankfully not quite as warm as yesterday. Another little wander done so I think that’s me done at 31,000 steps.

Just tried with First Direct - which is my "paying stuff into it" bank

and to do it I need to use "The App" - which I don;t do

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Santander: you can photograph the cheque and upload to your a/c.

Edit: Mo beat me to it.

Just tried it - you need "The App"

Basically I don't do banking on my phone - only on my laptop

so that won;t work either

I will go down the High Street on Monday

 

[Dirk]

Just tried it - you need "The App"

Basically I don't do banking on my phone - only on my laptop

so that won;t work either

I will go down the High Street on Monday

You can deposit cheques through the machines inside Santander branches.

 

[Paulus]

I've just noticed that @classic33 hasn't been around for just over a month.