The Retirement Thread
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2nd..😉
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Good Morning, another beautiful day has dawned in Lancashire, breezy but lovely. It will be a cold morning and warm afternoon.
Yesterday we visited Bradford to see the Bill Bailey Extraordinary Portraits exhibition, some of you may have seen the TV series. It was very, very good. Quite brilliant in fact. A couple of the portraits are really emotional. The queue to get in was probably the longest, oldest, most middle-class you'll ever see! I had a problem with the portrait of the young woman with Downs Syndrome. My son is DS. Yes, people with challenges, disabilities etc. should be an equal part of our society in every way but the manner in which the media always picks high-functioning individuals fails to tell the story. That is a great shame. People with autism get treated the same way.
Anyway Bradford. What a tremendous city centre. I had no idea. It's packed with huge, industrial revolution era, buildings most of which haven't been interfered with. On a bright, sunny day it was good to see and enjoy. That's the upside. Less positively there is nowhere to eat. Literally nowhere. We ended up in Nando's, which was fine but not what we had planned. After a bit of a post lunch wander we found the Broadway Shopping Centre, very new and rammed with bright, sparkly shops and food places. There is the problem, the old city centre has one brand name in a building, Waterstones. Every other building is a dingy rundown pub, vape shop, nails, hair extensions, charity, building society etc. No other major brands and no interesting independents. The Broadway Centre has sucked the life out of every other part of Bradford centre.
We enjoyed our day. Bradford surprised me. It was interesting. Would I go back? No. There's no real reason to and that's Bradford's problem. City of Culture 2025 and pulling in people from all over the UK but not giving us a reason to go back. A shame.
Yesterday we visited Bradford to see the Bill Bailey Extraordinary Portraits exhibition, some of you may have seen the TV series. It was very, very good. Quite brilliant in fact. A couple of the portraits are really emotional. The queue to get in was probably the longest, oldest, most middle-class you'll ever see! I had a problem with the portrait of the young woman with Downs Syndrome. My son is DS. Yes, people with challenges, disabilities etc. should be an equal part of our society in every way but the manner in which the media always picks high-functioning individuals fails to tell the story. That is a great shame. People with autism get treated the same way.
Anyway Bradford. What a tremendous city centre. I had no idea. It's packed with huge, industrial revolution era, buildings most of which haven't been interfered with. On a bright, sunny day it was good to see and enjoy. That's the upside. Less positively there is nowhere to eat. Literally nowhere. We ended up in Nando's, which was fine but not what we had planned. After a bit of a post lunch wander we found the Broadway Shopping Centre, very new and rammed with bright, sparkly shops and food places. There is the problem, the old city centre has one brand name in a building, Waterstones. Every other building is a dingy rundown pub, vape shop, nails, hair extensions, charity, building society etc. No other major brands and no interesting independents. The Broadway Centre has sucked the life out of every other part of Bradford centre.
We enjoyed our day. Bradford surprised me. It was interesting. Would I go back? No. There's no real reason to and that's Bradford's problem. City of Culture 2025 and pulling in people from all over the UK but not giving us a reason to go back. A shame.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Ah, you working today Pedro?
Yep.. Already been in Hadleigh for 2 hours! 😂
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Must be chilly over there, fairly flat ground and that biting NE wind.
It is.. Woolly hat weather whilst unloading 🎩
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Forecast looking good for next week's campervan excursion to the coast.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Well - I'm up and had breakfast and tablets
off to get the grand kids in a bit - the parents were both working today - she normally works at the weekends and he had to cover someone at the hospital
anyway - turns out that she has been given the day off and is going "into town" with her friend
hence they could not stay here overnight - which would have been easier
and I have to go and get them about 10ish
they live a couple of minutes walk from AIntree race course and apparently there is something going on there this weekend - seems to be somthing to do with dresses that are eiother very clingy and long - or, as my wife put it when we saw some women yesterday - "covers her arse"
there may be some horses involved although I'm pretty sure most of the people we saw going there yesterday were not that bothered!!!
anyway - just hoping we are before the rush and take them back after it
and the security people don;t insist on ID to get to the kids house - yesterday there were 2 barriers that covered 1/10 th of the road
so I suspect a walk to the "deep dark wood" and some shopping
off to get the grand kids in a bit - the parents were both working today - she normally works at the weekends and he had to cover someone at the hospital
anyway - turns out that she has been given the day off and is going "into town" with her friend
hence they could not stay here overnight - which would have been easier
and I have to go and get them about 10ish
they live a couple of minutes walk from AIntree race course and apparently there is something going on there this weekend - seems to be somthing to do with dresses that are eiother very clingy and long - or, as my wife put it when we saw some women yesterday - "covers her arse"
there may be some horses involved although I'm pretty sure most of the people we saw going there yesterday were not that bothered!!!
anyway - just hoping we are before the rush and take them back after it
and the security people don;t insist on ID to get to the kids house - yesterday there were 2 barriers that covered 1/10 th of the road
so I suspect a walk to the "deep dark wood" and some shopping
classic33
Leg End Member
Can you eat using one side of the mouth?
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
The sun is shining here but there is a cold wind blowing.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
Still just 5 degrees here with a chilly easterly.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Off for a jolly hollyday where according to an old travel documentary I watched one can see Sydney Opera House and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon from the same window.
