The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Sitting watching a few of my favourite subscriptions on YouTube.

I love listening to this guy’s chats. He is so easy to listen to and he does some nice walks and camping.

https://www.youtube.com/@HikeCampCook

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Fairly cool here - compared to recently anyway

Nice evening overall

grass could do with some rain - might get some tomorrow - or Friday
or whatever maybe

 

[Dave7]

A quick good morning.
I so do not want to be up at this time but as I've said before, I cant just lie in bed (unless I'm ill of course).
About to have a coffee.
I will probably head out about 6ish. I have a different route in mind.......it does start on the main road (no houses) which i dont mind when its quiet.
Have a good day peeps.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
Another warm day in prospect.
Off to see our daughter at some point today, other than that not much planned.
The badgers have eaten most of my onions and carrots growing in the garden fortunately they don't seem to touch the tomato plants.

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

 

[welsh dragon]

Cooooeee. 9 deg and fair here. Hopefully its the last day of painting the pantry for me. I hope I have enough paint to Finnish the job.

Stay safe peeps

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning, it’s 17 degrees and overcast here in Dorset. Yesterday I entered a competition promoted by my energy company, first prize being family tickets to " Camp Bestival " a family friendly music / entertainment festival held each year in the grounds of Lulworth Castle on the Dorset coast which is local so 🤞

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Engine building in my workshop this morning and then I've got a chap coming round to cut our laurel hedges back.
If he turns up at 12 o'clock, like he said, we'll pop out for lunch and leave him to it.

 

[Dave7]

Back from my walk.....I won't do that one again. The 1st part was a main road, no problem as there was very little traffic. I then added what I thought was a big loop. It was so boring. When I finished that I thought "i must be close to 3 miles. Checked my GPS to find i had only done 1.4 miles .
Came back via the park land but still only got it up to 2.5 miles.

 

[Drago]

Popping to the garden centre in a bit for a newmplanter and trellis.

 

[Elybazza61]

Up at 6:00 this morning and it's cool and grey.

Muesli and coffee consumed, washing up done and will go out soon for shopping and thrifting.

Will nip out on the Helium for a test to see if I've cured the cracking noise (hopefully was just a loose seat-post clamp) and then more tidying in the garden and probably some watering.

 

[Gunk]

Dropping my wife and daughter into to town, (wife has a hair appointment and my daughter is catching the train back to London) I’m then out for a longish motorcycle ride this afternoon.

 

[Binky]

Morning.
Cool and breezy here although due to brighten up later.
Need to get out for a ride as not been since weekend (!). The stiff N wind though is worst direction here so I'm dithering.

 

[welsh dragon]

Ugh. My neck hurts from painting the ceiling. I'm on the last leg now. Just the ceiling to Finnish and the wall at the bottom of the shelves. And hoorah I'll have enough paint to Finnish the job.

 

[PaulSB]

Good Morning. Fluffy white clouds and cool. Very pleasant. It's been a hectic couple of days with small people, my eldest boy's 40th and other bits and pieces. Hopefully life will be a little more settled today. I will clean and tidy this morning, this afternoon I'm helping to host an Afternoon Tea for all the volunteers in our u3a. These are usually a lot of fun. Then more chores when I get home, these things must be done.

Fun and games on the way home from Manchester last night. We got back to the car park last night to see the parking man had left us a yellow note. Oh, that's nice I thought a thank you for parking with us. It was of course a PCN, a genuine one from Manchester City Council. I asked the guys why it had issued it, both responded I wasn't showing as paid on the system . I've paid was my response. Checked the ticket this morning. I drive a blue Hyundai, some poor bugger who drives a white Honda is in for a surprise and will probably have to prove he wasn't in Manchester last night. Two errors in the registration number gave the wrong make and wrong colour. It seems to me the parking guys need a refresher course. I've made a genuine effort to inform the authorities but there's no way to do so without handing over a load of personal info. If I do that I could end up with a huge amount of grief.

The motorway was closed on the way home for a police incident. Locally this is code for someone is trying to jump off a bridge. This happens with astonishing frequency round here on the M65, often, and the M61, occasionally. This proved to be the case again last night, I don't know the outcome but no one was hurt. Quite literally when the motorways are closed the first response is "someone's jumping off a bridge." It's very sad and very frequent.

Yesterday I did something extraordinary for me. I had a bike shoe fitting. What an astonishing difference to the comfort and feel of the shoe. I can no longer say my bib shorts are the most expensive item of clothing I own.....................my new shoes are!! Can't wait to get on the bike with these tomorrow.