The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Some time back Mrs P took up weaving willow and stuff like that. Foraging hedgerows and coming back with various poles and armfuls of sappy young growth.

This was OK. Until!! Recently she created a wigwam on MY allotment (well I do all the work) but it's in a corner which we just chuck a bit of wild flower seed on. No harm then.

Mrs P has announced she is making wigwams for the climbing beans. These are not things of beauty. She insists they will go on MY raised beds (well I built them). I like four eight foot bamboo canes tied together at the top. Neat, tidy, easy, works.

I see trouble in Paradise on the horizon.

 

[BoldonLad]

Some time back Mrs P took up weaving willow and stuff like that. Foraging hedgerows and coming back with various poles and armfuls of sappy young growth.

This was OK. Until!! Recently she created a wigwam on MY allotment (well I do all the work) but it's in a corner which we just chuck a bit of wild flower seed on. No harm then.

Mrs P has announced she is making wigwams for the climbing beans. These are not things of beauty. She insists they will go on MY raised beds (well I built them). I like four eight foot bamboo canes tied together at the top. Neat, tidy, easy, works.

I see trouble in Paradise on the horizon.

Stand your ground, be a man!

and

send us the videos

 

[PaulSB]

Stand your ground, be a man!

and

send us the videos

Yeah. I've tried that before.......

 

[PaulSB]

Video Quiz night on Zoom at 8.00.

In these video chats one can see oneself on screen. Same view as everyone else..........I've concluded higher than usual attention to facial personal grooming is a good idea........but you can wear your oldest and tattiest jeans

 

[oldwheels]

When we moved to my present house a large garden was a real bonus. It has now due to old age and decrepitude become a burden. I had intended to put the veg bit into a wildflower meadow but that idea is now on hold and back to veg again for another year. There is a large grass area but every time I cut it the ticks leap at me which is an infernal nuisance. Because there are new houses behind I cannot even have the red deer shot as they are the main carriers. So long as the ticks are easily got at not so much a problem but one of the wifely chores was picking out the ones I could not reach. Alas that is no longer available. Knee length wellies I think it has to be now and hoping that keeps them off me. Getting mundane things like garden lime is also a problem now as the soil needs a good dose, particularly for brassicas. Essential ferry travel only now and the service is being steadily reduced due to lack of traffic so cannot just take the car to Oban for things which are not 100% necessary.

 

[Dave7]

When we moved to my present house a large garden was a real bonus. It has now due to old age and decrepitude become a burden. I had intended to put the veg bit into a wildflower meadow but that idea is now on hold and back to veg again for another year. There is a large grass area but every time I cut it the ticks leap at me which is an infernal nuisance. Because there are new houses behind I cannot even have the red deer shot as they are the main carriers. So long as the ticks are easily got at not so much a problem but one of the wifely chores was picking out the ones I could not reach. Alas that is no longer available. Knee length wellies I think it has to be now and hoping that keeps them off me. Getting mundane things like garden lime is also a problem now as the soil needs a good dose, particularly for brassicas. Essential ferry travel only now and the service is being steadily reduced due to lack of traffic so cannot just take the car to Oban for things which are not 100% necessary.

Never had Lymes desease fortunately but a distant friend in America nearly died from it.
Our gardens are too big for me but I reason that paying a gadener is cheaper than moving.
May change my mind at some stage.

 

[oldwheels]

Never had Lymes desease fortunately but a distant friend in America nearly died from it.
Our gardens are too big for me but I reason that paying a gadener is cheaper than moving.
May change my mind at some stage.

No gardeners to pay here. There are some grass butchers but I grudge paying them for inferior work. My father was a professional gardener and I know how things should be done and what they should look like when finished. I spent many weekends as a jobbing gardener when I was a student.

 

[classic33]

All wrapped up beneath your own duvets?

 

[Duc gas]

Hi fellow retirees, I've been watching you lot for quite some time now, I chuckle and snigger on a daily basis without adding to the dizziness, is it okay to join in? I took my redundancy/ voluntary retirement last August after working for 40 years and 13 days as a gas man and manager in North Wales - I know the quality of North Wales retirees posts are top notch - Welsh dragon,gavroche,dodgy knees etc.... hope I can add in?? Please take care everyone

 

[Drago]

Speaking of Dizziness, I took a KoM today, only the second one ive ever done. I took advantage of the quiet roads to turn the corner wide to carry as much speed as possible onto the segment and it payed off. Anyway, I hammered it, absolutely flogged those pedals, and when I crested the rise at the end of the segment and started to coast down the other side I suddenly felt dizzy and my vision started to go all blurry.

 

[Dirk]

Hi fellow retirees, I've been watching you lot for quite some time now, I chuckle and snigger on a daily basis without adding to the dizziness, is it okay to join in? I took my redundancy/ voluntary retirement last August after working for 40 years and 13 days as a gas man and manager in North Wales - I know the quality of North Wales retirees posts are top notch - Welsh dragon,gavroche,dodgy knees etc.... hope I can add in?? Please take care everyone

You're more than welcome @Duc gas.
Just watch out for that @Dave7 though - 'es a wrong un; especially if you start cuddling up to @welsh dragon .
I've got him on ignore......so he can't get to me.

 

[Duc gas]

You're more than welcome @Duc gas.
Just watch out for that @Dave7 though - 'es a wrong un; especially if you start cuddling up to @welsh dragon .
I've got him on ignore......so he can't get to me.

How do I do this ignore thingy ? 😀

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[classic33]

Night Johnboy.

Night GranMa

 

[welsh dragon]

How do I do this ignore thingy ? 😀

You can't possibly want to ignore me. Mr WD tried that once. It wasn't a pretty sight.