The Retirement Thread

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There's a phone app called "Picture This" that uses your phones camera to identify plants.
I tried it out on various plants in the garden and it's very good.
It has an option to correct a mis-identification, and it is, I believe UK centric with regards to the plants in the database.
They Google just sent me a receipt (£0.00) but it said the yearly subscription is £19.99. Is it the same app as yours?
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
@welsh dragon you should have a good view of the Starlink satellites coming over tonight.
Arriving at about 9.35 pm from a westerly direction. Should be visible over a wide area if it's a clear night.
Think they said there's 46 of them.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Good afternoon everypeeps. Been out on the bike for a bit, and called in at my local grocers on the way back for some essentials and they had plain flour :bravo:.
A lovely vegetable lasagne and salad for tea tonight. MrsP is going to bake a cake tomorrow for our son's birthday on Friday. She still thinks he is 12, although will be actually 32. :ohmy:
 
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Dirk

Dirk

If 6 Was 9
Location
Watchet
Just checked my extra NI contributions for my State Pension and they've finally gone through.
I paid them over 2 grand in the middle of February and it's taken over 2 months for it to register on the system.:wacko:
They were quick enough to take it out of my bank account! :angry:
Just got to query an over grab of tax on one of my pensions next ......... that should be fun.....:blink:
 

BoldonLad

Not part of the Elite
Location
South Tyneside
Just checked my extra NI contributions for my State Pension and they've finally gone through.
I paid them over 2 grand in the middle of February and it's taken over 2 months for it to register on the system.:wacko:
They were quick enough to take it out of my bank account! :angry:
Just got to query an over grab of tax on one of my pensions next ......... that should be fun.....:blink:
Good luck with the tax and HMRC.
When Mrs @BoldonLad retired, HMRC made a complete mess of her PAYE tax. They claimed she owed them over £1000. According to my calculations, she did owe them some tax, but, a more modest £270. It dragged on for almost 12 months, with the pinnacle being receiving 4 notice of coding letters in the post, on the same day! Each notice of coding was different of course. At that point, she enlisted the aid of our MP. It was eventually sorted, and, they decided she owed them nothing. Touch wood, has been ok since. ;)
 

gavroche

Getting old but not past it
Location
North Wales
Haven’t had “real” rice pudding since my mother died ;)
We never eat tin rice pudding, it is too watery but always home made rice pudding. The trouble is, we just can't buy pudding rice at the moment, none in the shops!:cursing:
 

Duc gas

Über Member
Oh it's getting hard here, my best friends son has a brewery and they've been canning over the last few days and unfortunately for them the stand in staff ( my best friend) isn't so good at the canning malarkey and they have loads of un- sellable beer! Apparently some of the cans aren't quite filled to the top and will go off sooner? But we don't know which ones they are! Others the labels aren't stuck on correctly but we know what's in them and its all top class rocket fuel - oh my 3 tins down at least 45 to go - hic😂🍺
 

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Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Oh it's getting hard here, my best friends son has a brewery and they've been canning over the last few days and unfortunately for them the stand in staff ( my best friend) isn't so good at the canning malarkey and they have loads of un- sellable beer! Apparently some of the cans aren't quite filled to the top and will go off sooner? But we don't know which ones they are! Others the labels aren't stuck on correctly but we know what's in them and its all top class rocket fuel - oh my 3 tins down at least 45 to go - hic😂🍺
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My latest delivery from the Redemption brewery.
 

Duc gas

Über Member
I remember years ago that Wednesday night in the pub used to be the start of the weekend. I cringe now at the states I used to get in and still manage to ride my motorbike into work the next morning feeling rough as a bears xrse -Now it's the start of the weekend every night, but. I can't keep it up now- luckily - take care fellow retires ☃️🍻👍
 
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