The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Good morning. We seem to have bright sunshine here. No wind and no rain.

Morning all

Same weather here.

 

[welsh dragon]

Yesterdays BBQ went well apart from managing to drop one of the burgers between the bars and into the gunge at the bottom. How can it do that?
Quite warm this morning.........the lull between the storm I think. If MsD ever gets out of bed we may get a walk in. Apart from that I have no idea what we will be doing.

In approx' three hours time we were due to land in Majorca for our 2 week holiday. ahhh well. We will wait for lock down to finish and have our staycation. Not sure if I have said this previously (stop me if I have) but where I come from, on the Wirral, has some amazing places to visit so although it's only one hour away we will book a hotel for a few nights and do it justice.

At least you don't have to worry about trying to find your passport.

 

[Dave7]

At least you don't have to worry about trying to find your passport.

Am I allowed to use the word bitch on here
But you do have a point.

 

[Dave7]

We try and have at least a 4 day break in Liverpool every year, we love the city, the people and the area.

Where do you tend to stay ?

 

[Dave7]

@PaulSB its a ready mixed spray. I will check the name etc and let you know shortly.

 

[PaulSB]

Not sure if it's the same in your neck of the woods Paul, but around here there's a very long waiting list for Allotments.
There are allotments just a couple of hundred yards away from me, adjacent to a little park. I bumped into a bloke I knew through work coming out of them and mentioned that I hadn't known that was his sort of thing.
Turns out it wasn't originally , his wife had long expressed the desire for an allotment. After many years her name came to the top of the list and she got stuck in for a while, but then the reality of it and the work involved caused her to lose interest.
My friend who'd been helping her out on a more regular basis had inherited it and found it the ideal contrast to his day job.

I don't know about waiting lists as I own mine, it's at the top of my garden. When I pop to the allotment its perhaps a minute's amble up the garden path!! I do know of a number of local allotments in the area, some look very well cared for others not so good. This leads me to think locally there probably isn't a waiting list. I do know in some areas there are long waiting lists.

Our situation is unusual. We live in a mill village built by Methodist mill owners who wanted to attract the best local workers. This was done by offering great facilities for the time. Your work position in the mill influenced the house you got!! Above the gardens for our terrace are the allotments. I don't know how these were originally allocated but they were given to different households around the village. In the 60s the mill owners sold the village! Sitting tenants got the opportunity to buy their cottages and the rest of the land and housing was bought by a guy in Norfolk, I forget his name. There is a lot of other history but I won't bore you with that.

When we bought our cottage we were told the garage and the allotment was ours but neither were on the Title Deeds. The previous owner said we would pay rent annually to the owner's agent in Preston whose name I forget. We were never asked to pay rent for either. In the UK the law states if one has enjoyed rent free access to a piece of land for 13 years one can legally claim ownership of the land. Crucially one must use the land - a guy turned up out of the blue one day to inspect our allotment. We waited 13 years and did this so now the garage and allotment are on my Title Deeds. The day after we got the title I started knocking down the ramshackle wooden garage and built a proper one!

 

[Dave7]

Plenty time I'm sure. Our local Facebook page has people giving away excess tomato plants at the moment.

Mo.....good point but I don't do face book.

 

[Drago]

Anyone noticed the resemblance?

Matt Hancock:

Lieutenant Gruber:

 

[numbnuts]

Morning - nothing to report

 

[screenman]

Where do you tend to stay ?

The Resident used to be The Nadler is a favourite, so close to everything bit of a boutique style so may not be for everyone.

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. I had a pleasant surprise last night when the door bell rang at 8.20pm. It was a parcel delivery from Amazon. As I had not ordered anything, I was puzzled but , when I opened it, there was a note from my son that said: " I thought you might be bored with painting and bought you those two books. " One is " The cyclist who went out in the Cold" by Tim Moore and the other " Riding in the zone rouge" by Tom Isitt.
How nice of him ? Needless to say, I was quite touched.

 

[welsh dragon]

Am I allowed to use the word bitch on here
But you do have a point.

. Oooh. Meowwwwww

 

[Dave7]

@PaulSB
Its called Roseclear. It claims to be a 3 in 1 and clears blackspot plus creepy crawleys.
Instructions are to apply at first sign, then 10 days later if it persists....but twice a year max.

 

[welsh dragon]

I may have been a tad hasty when I said how nice it is here with blue skies and sunshine.

 

[Mo1959]

I may have been a tad hasty when I said how nice it is here with blue skies and sunshine.

The wind is currently making whistling sounds around the windows. Maybe not a day for unless I can find some north easterly wind assisted segments!