The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

Morning

I'm off later on for a meet up with a lad i was at school with

He is very into busses and trains - alwasy has been - especially old ones
his FaceBook over since he retired (as a lecturer in integrated transport - square peg ina square hole if there ever was one!) has been pictures of buses from all over Europe - and I mean ALL over!!


Used to meet up every few months for many years but we dropped off and I have not seen him face-to-face for many years

He has suggested a cafe in Halewoord that he found when his car was being serviced
as he still lives on the WIrral I presume it is a specialist place
so it will be interesting to find out what kind of car it is!!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Morning all

Yay...Fish Friday!
Looks like Summer has arrived!
Taking the pup up to Lydeard hill for a walk, then we are lunching at the Carew Arms.

" He was known as " Mad Carew " to the Subs of Kathmandu... "

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No heatwave here in the LD.

Cool, overcast & damp.

Putting the factor 50 back in the cupboard.

Have a good one, all.

 

[Elybazza61]

Sunny morning here and this was our view when having a coffee earlier;

Now all sunscreen up and out for a ride, length of which will depend on how hot I get.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Sunny morning here and this was our view when having a coffee earlier;

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Now all sunscreen up and out for a ride, length of which will depend on how hot I get.

Nice garden!

Are there wild beasts in there?

 

[Dave7]

Pembrokeshire. My garden just now.

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Nice.
Suns out now and its warm .

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Weird thing here

Yesterday I nipped out to ASDA and just as I was passing the end of teh park 2 Police cars puled up

There was already an unmarked on parked opposite with all his Blue lights flashing

and another was just coming as I turned right just past them

When I was on my way home not long after the Air Ambulance had just landed

Not that long after we were going down the motorway and possible the same unmarked car plus 3 Police cars and an ambulance passed us on the motorway - clearly in a hurry


all of which sounds like something major


but not a peep in the local papers

given the drivel they normally seem to have to depend on I would have though something like that in the centre of town would have been a God-send to them
but nothing!!


bit strange

 

[numbnuts]

Weird thing here

Yesterday I nipped out to ASDA and just as I was passing the end of teh park 2 Police cars puled up

There was already an unmarked on parked opposite with all his Blue lights flashing

and another was just coming as I turned right just past them

When I was on my way home not long after the Air Ambulance had just landed

Not that long after we were going down the motorway and possible the same unmarked car plus 3 Police cars and an ambulance passed us on the motorway - clearly in a hurry


all of which sounds like something major


but not a peep in the local papers

given the drivel they normally seem to have to depend on I would have though something like that in the centre of town would have been a God-send to them
but nothing!!


bit strange

Nothing to see here, someone saw the price of coffee and wrote something on facebook

 

[numbnuts]

I've made a coconut cake

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning from a warm, sunny Lancashire. I'm already looking forward to tomorrow's ride. At the risk of upsetting @SpokeyDokey while hanging out the washing I was contemplating that the wives of some of our assembled company should not mock or criticise their husbands' chosen pegging methods. Instead they should consider themselves very fortunate to be married to men who not only hang out the washing but probably know where the washing machine lives and quite possibly how to use it. Stay strong chaps, we must stick together!

A little late today. OK, not unusual but I have an excuse. I've spent some considerable time solving the bin liner problem. The food waste caddy needed a new liner. I rummaged in the cupboard under the sink. Now we have bins that need liners in the shower room, bathroom, kitchen pedal bin, outdoor food waste caddy, indoor food waste caddy and utility room. Each bin is a different size. Yes, we have five six different sizes of bin liner......................it's like Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver. Oh, yes and of course we have nappy bags for the small ones!!!!

Anyway loads of chores today including parcelling up cycling stuff I need to return and ordering a load more to try out.

Our next door neighbours have gone out. Their seventeen year old son is at home..........................I don't share his musical tastes but I'm probably a better singer.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning from a warm, sunny Lancashire. I'm already looking forward to tomorrow's ride. At the risk of upsetting @SpokeyDokey while hanging out the washing I was contemplating that the some wives of some of our assembled company should not mock or criticise their husbands' chosen pegging methods. Instead they should consider themselves very fortunate to be married to men who not only hang out the washing but probably know where the washing machine lives and quite possibly how to use it. Stay strong chaps, we must stick together!

A little late today. OK, not unusual but I have an excuse. I've spent some considerable time solving the bin liner problem. The food waste caddy needed a new liner. I rummaged in the cupboard under the sink. Now we have bins that need liners in the shower room, bathroom, kitchen pedal bin, outdoor food waste caddy, indoor food waste caddy and utility room. Each bin is a different size. Yes, we have five six different sizes of bin liner......................it's like Russian roulette with a fully loaded revolver. Oh, yes and of course we have nappy bags for the small ones!!!!

Anyway loads of chores today including parcelling up cycling stuff I need to return and ordering a load more to try out.

Our next door neighbours have gone out. Their seventeen year old son is at home..........................I don't share his musical tastes but I'm probably a better singer.

There's a half decent trumpeter locally, probably lives in one of the big houses that border Delph woods. It's quite evocative wandering through the woods with the sound of a trumpet in the distance.

 

[Dave7]

I am back from my sojourns so will give you clue to where that was.........

 

[Dave7]

I've made a coconut cake

I'll be round in 10 minutes

 

[welsh dragon]

Welshie was saying that she was going to hang a pair of bloomers on the line yesterday but found she only had 40 pegs so has ordered an extra 50 off Amazon.

I have some plastic ones and they keep breaking. They can't be more than 20 years old for gods sake. Things don't last nowadays.

 

[Paulus]

£150 spent at the garden centre, but we did get a car full of plants, and 4x 50L bags of Levington compost.
Over the next few days the front garden will be tidied and then will be planted up with the bedding plants and some of the perennials.
I don't expect any heavy frosts from now on.