The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

That takes me back . I did my apprenticeship back in the late 70s early 80s and spent nearly decade as a capstan lathe setter . I didn’t really want to leave but I had just got married and went to ask for raise of £10 a week ( they paid everyone differently so I knew I was being underpaid) , which they refused. So I went to work at Peugeot on the line in the Body in white , for £25 a week more plus a shift premium of 30% when on nights . That extra money was very useful with the big jumps in interest rates around that time.
Still have all my tools, verniers, gauges , conversion tables etc in a toolbox in the shed , but they havnt been used in anger since 1987/88. 🙂

Yes, I well remember that period when interest rates shot up to over 15%. We were moving house and I was 'bricking' it.

 

[Paulus]

I cycled up to the market, then i went and got a haircut i was flattered that they tried yet again to charge me full price instead of the senior citizen price.😁
Then as it was so hot i dived into the Mitre for an ale or two.
Just had a cuppa and a couple if slices of a Melton Mowbray pork pie.
A terrible diet day. 😋

 

[Paulus]

Yes, I well remember that period when interest rates shot up to over 15%. We were moving house and I was 'bricking' it.

In 1981 when I bought my first house, for a while the interest rate was 16.5%. I still have all the paperwork.
Fortunately both MrsP and myself had good jobs.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

Pension day so off to Spoons for a vino or two and a bite to eat

 

[numbnuts]

I too was buying my first house and the rates were at 15%
Later the overtime at work was stopped, so I had to take a second
job as a security guard, it was very easy work, that why I chose
it as after working 5 days as a Blacksmith didn't want anything to hard
and walking round the docks at night I came to enjoy it.

 

[Dave7]

Sat in the side garden enjoying an iced coffee.

 

[Dave7]

Unsatisfactory snooze attempted ☹️

Not tried for one yet, odd as I was up at 04.30ish and did (for me) a long walk.

 

[Paulus]

Oh boy, it's hot out there this afternoon. 35⁰ and hardly any breeze.
Should be 10⁰ cooler tomorrow.
Something light for tea this evening, stuffed red peppers with feta cheese on the top.

 

[Dave7]

Oh boy, it's hot out there this afternoon. 35⁰ and hardly any breeze.
Should be 10⁰ cooler tomorrow.
Something light for tea this evening, stuffed red peppers with feta cheese on the top.

Just 24° here so quite pleasant.
Sat in my lounge with patio doors open

 

[Drago]

Mrs D has made me a posh coffee.

 

[mikeIow]

Not having a lot of luck today, cleaned my strip light from under the kitchen cupboard
and now it won't work, I think the tube has gone.
Had early lunch to go out for a walk, just seen on my weather station it's 37.7c
so that's cancelled, may go later when it has cooled off a bit

Our kitchen wall units had a light fail....turned out it was a VERY specialised tube, & the german company no longer made it!
I got a bunch of cheap sensor lights - very small, but last many months - one in the coat cupboard, couple in each wall unit - work well. These ones
Does remind me I keep meaning to get a couple of bigger ones for our wardrobes. Useful when I have run out of Floordrobe space

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Yes, I well remember that period when interest rates shot up to over 15%. We were moving house and I was 'bricking' it.

I had a mortgage at that point - interest rate was consistently over 15%

which I just considered normal

 

[Drago]

The trailer for Reacher 4 is now on Pooptube.

 

[numbnuts]

Our kitchen wall units had a light fail....turned out it was a VERY specialised tube, & the german company no longer made it!
I got a bunch of cheap sensor lights - very small, but last many months - one in the coat cupboard, couple in each wall unit - work well. These onesfor
Does remind me I keep meaning to get a couple of bigger ones for our wardrobes. Useful when I have run out of Floordrobe space

Hi I was thinking of getting new ones, but I found the tube on ebay so ordered that, Thanks all the same

 

[PaulSB]

Back from my walk. Managed spot on 4 miles.
Good job i took a bottle of juice.
Part of the walk takes me through the former green belt woodland which has now gone for them to build 1200 houses. The footpath has been a right of way for hundreds of years but cranes and wagons have really churned it up in parts.
Some photos of interest.
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The 1200 houses mean there is nowhere for surface water to drain so they have built 2 of these collection ponds.
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This is the right of way. You can see the footpath goes over the M62 which was built in 1972......the had to built the bridge to maintain right of way.
View attachment 816682 the footpath splits here and was as far as I got. It was hot hot hot.

I wanted to ❤️ this for the four miles and 😡😡 for the building.