The Retirement Thread

[172traindriver]

I wish someone would steal the fellow who lives opposite me artificial grass..Looks b——-y awful

I did enjoy watching him in the autumn going out every five minutes to brush the leaves of the grass.He even complained that his neighbours leaves we’re falling on his grass and making it look untidy.

I feel sorry for the wildlife, they are losing enough habitat generally

 

[172traindriver]

Morning chaps. I was up but elsewhere on the net.

Is that the truth or were you up to something else

 

[welsh dragon]

just enough to pay for next month

Exactly. And every little helps. I might win the big one next month.

 

[172traindriver]

I may even have a nap.........

Woke up yet?

 

[Dave7]

They taste just like an egg that has been pickled.

Really.....that should be in factoids thread

 

[172traindriver]

Really.....that should be in factoids thread

 

[screenman]

...raw?

You know what the folk around here are like, would they waste money on cooking it?

 

[Dave7]

Exactly. And every little helps. I might win the big one next month.

Let me know if you do and I will have a rethink .
Dont forget, the offer of double mushy peas is still on.

 

[aferris2]

Ride done. 69 miles. Very nice steak sandwich for lunch washed down with a couple of pints of Brewers Gold. No pickled eggs.

 

[172traindriver]

Let me know if you do and I will have a rethink .
Dont forget, the offer of double mushy peas is still on.

I would have thought you could have offered her a little more

 

[jongooligan]

Went for a walk through the woods near Waldridge and came across three dead jackdaws in a heap on the path. No sign of injuries on any of them so guessing they'd been poisoned.

Why the hell would anyone do that?

 

[Dave7]

I would have thought you could have offered her a little more

I know Welshie. She is not a greedy person. I believe fish, chips and DOUBLE mushy peas will win the day

 

[172traindriver]

Went for a walk through the woods near Waldridge and came across three dead jackdaws in a heap on the path. No sign of injuries on any of them so guessing they'd been poisoned.

Why the hell would anyone do that?

Yep it's appalling but obviously someone feels they can justify it and they are helping other forms of wildlife.
It's a bit like a few weeks ago I was watching something about the Highlands, don't think it was Countryfile, but not sure and they were on about cases of deliberate poisoning of Golden Eagles.
We could get into the debate of them taking game which certain people pay a lot of money to shoot etc so they dont want stocks damaged, but do a tiny endangered population of beautiful creatures really threaten the game industry?
I saw something a couple of years ago that was the same with Buzzards being poisoned because they were having a few your pheasants which were being bred for the hunting brigade.
There are so many of the dopey things about that must have been bred and have escaped and are about the railway. Some days its like a pheasant shoot on the railway when they just stand there and wait for you to hit them or fly up in front of you at 75 mph.
Don't half make a massive bang when you hit them though, and make you jump if you dont happen to see them

PS like the post but appalled at what you saw

 

[172traindriver]

I know Welshie. She is not a greedy person. I believe fish, chips and DOUBLE mushy peas will win the day

For starters

 

[Deleted member 1258]

What a day! The good thing was my ride this morning, a 60 mile ride to the forestry centre at Rosliston, the first time I've been there since 2015, now whilst I hadn't forgotten the route, I'd forgotten how lumpy it was. That bitter wind has gone but it was still a bit breezy, enough to make me work. I unleashed my inner hooligan on the descent into Polesworth, getting air on the speed bumps on the descent into the town, but drew the line at the bridge at the bottom, I remembered that there could be queueing traffic after it and backed off. Another good ride enjoyed.