The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

....I hear that the weather at home is a tad cool .

Only for the next couple of days. Apparently, we will be having a 'Spanish plume' that will bring hot weather through to the end of July - starting this weekend.

https://mol.im/a/6970485

 

[welsh dragon]

Only for the next couple of days. Apparently, we will be having a 'Spanish plume' that will bring hot weather through to the end of July - starting this weekend.

https://mol.im/a/6970485

Or not

 

[Dave7]

Welcome fellow retirees. I am sunning myself in Boa Vista one of the Cape Verde Islands. I hear that the weather at home is a tad cool .
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I have given that a like just so I CAN THEN UNLIKE IT

 

[Dirk]

Well, this is nice to know.......
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...places-index-devon-tops-quality-of-life-study

 

[172traindriver]

I am. The more the merrier for me.

I bet you like more

 

[172traindriver]

Morning folks and folkesses.
An interesting day for me. At 13.40 I will be in hospital while a specialist shoves a camera up** my John Thomas and into my bladder, then waggles it around (the camera, not my John Thomas) to check that the big C has not decided on a return visit.
**as I will be on a bed maybe, technically, he will be shoving it down ???).
I have this every 6 months and although I have shown clear for 4 years its still squeaky bum time.
But....... what a nice day . I will just have time to do a few bits in the garden then, assuming the camera is clear, a pub meal and a couple of drinks.

I hope it all went well and you enjoyed a few afterwards!

 

[172traindriver]

coz the first pee after the procedure feels like pissing broken glass, well it did for me

 

[Dave7]

I will be last tonight or first for tomorrow.
Camera jobbie up the Johnson went as well as it could......very little pain. It showed everything clear so, as its gone 4 years since the op' the specialist has moved me from 6 monthly to 12 monthly.
I am now sat with a celebratory whisky

 

[172traindriver]

Only for the next couple of days. Apparently, we will be having a 'Spanish plume' that will bring hot weather through to the end of July - starting this weekend.

https://mol.im/a/6970485

Fingers crossed at least we have some decent settled weather

 

[172traindriver]

Or not

Dont be so negative Welshie
Or we may have to arrange the camera for you

 

[172traindriver]

I will be last tonight or first for tomorrow.
Camera jobbie up the Johnson went as well as it could......very little pain. It showed everything clear so, as its gone 4 years since the op' the specialist has moved me from 6 monthly to 12 monthly.
I am now sat with a celebratory whisky

Good news

 

[screenman]

As you may have all forgot I got rushed into hospital in Turkey 10 months ago, herniated disc. Anyways, my leg muscles just vanished in a week, it took all my concentration to straighten my left leg let alone put any weight on it. Yet this afternoon I had what I consider my best ride since, 15 miles in under 60 minutes, a long way down on 10 months ago but it certainly felt good. I still have a lot of pain in the muscles of my lower back, I still have severe pins and needles in my left leg and my left knee feels like I am kneeling on a broken saucer when I kneel down. So, I am sitting here feeling happy that cycling maybe in my future still.

That and the pain management people phoned on Thursday, they were supposed to call before February 22nd, I am seeing them Wednesday, so that should be interesting.

Not sure why I wrote that lot.

 

[welsh dragon]

As you may have all forgot I got rushed into hospital in Turkey 10 months ago, herniated disc. Anyways, my leg muscles just vanished in a week, it took all my concentration to straighten my left leg let alone put any weight on it. Yet this afternoon I had what I consider my best ride since, 15 miles in under 60 minutes, a long way down on 10 months ago but it certainly felt good. I still have a lot of pain in the muscles of my lower back, I still have severe pins and needles in my left leg and my left knee feels like I am kneeling on a broken saucer when I kneel down. So, I am sitting here feeling happy that cycling maybe in my future still.

That and the pain management people phoned on Thursday, they were supposed to call before February 22nd, I am seeing them Wednesday, so that should be interesting.

Not sure why I wrote that lot.

Well done.

 

[classic33]

I will be last tonight or first for tomorrow.
Camera jobbie up the Johnson went as well as it could......very little pain. It showed everything clear so, as its gone 4 years since the op' the specialist has moved me from 6 monthly to 12 monthly.
I am now sat with a celebratory whisky

What's the Whisky(Note spelling) drinking?

 

[PaulSB]

Missed this morning as I was late up and had to get to a routine screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. This is a relatively new screening for men in their 65th year. Nothing found I'm glad to say. No connection with my recent illness.

@Dave7 and @screenman well done guys. Good news.