The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Hello all, I’ve been following this thread for a few months now, hopefully you don’t mind me posting to it from time to time. I had to give up work last summer and have no intention of working again so I guess that makes me retired. I’m still struggling to adjust to it though.
Today is glorious here in Edinburgh, 20 perhaps 21 degrees and , quite possibly the best day we’re going to get all year. Enjoyed a couple of hours along the East Lothian coast this morning, now back to an afternoon of lockdown.

Welcome aboard.

 

[Dirk]

Hello all, I’ve been following this thread for a few months now, hopefully you don’t mind me posting to it from time to time. I had to give up work last summer and have no intention of working again so I guess that makes me retired. I’m still struggling to adjust to it though.
Today is glorious here in Edinburgh, 20 perhaps 21 degrees and , quite possibly the best day we’re going to get all year. Enjoyed a couple of hours along the East Lothian coast this morning, now back to an afternoon of lockdown.

If you ain't working and are financially self sufficient, then I would say that qualifies as being retired.
Mate of mine retired at 38, so I don't see age as a barrier.
Just don't mention w**k or j**s.

 

[Dirk]

You could consider that a decent amateur TT pace on a course with a hill or two. I'd not manage it these days I don't think.

Only ever did one 10 mile TT and was down in the 28 minute mark.
I've done several 113 mile TTs though and got down to the 1hr 13 m mark.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My Verenti Kilmeston, the most expensive and least used bike I've got, brought in 2010 out of a redundancy payment and used for Sunday rides, just after I retired I started using it on the turbo, I've now decided to sell the turbo so its been folded up and put away, I'll sell it later in the year. The bike is slightly too big for me, a 51cm frame, but the SRAM rival/apex gears work well and apart from evidence of hard use the bikes in good nick, so I need to decide keep or sell.

 

[Dave7]

what a numpty. If I had been the checkout person and you took your credit card out of your shoe, .

Hey you. I had a shower 2 weeks ago.

 

[Dave7]

Welcome aboard.

Be careful Flick. If Welshie is nice to you it usually means she is after something

 

[Dirk]

Two pints of GT Ales finest 'Blonde Ambition' light ale consumed whilst sitting in our sunny garden. Currently 27.3° out there.
I think there was something in the corned beef sandwich that has caused me to go a bit sleepy.
Might have to have an executive power nap to work it off.

 

[welsh dragon]

Be careful Flick. If Welshie is nice to you it usually means she is after something

Bad boy. Ssshh. Don't tell him that.

 

[Dave7]

Back from golf and sat enjoying a beer now.
Not played for months but today played the best I have for years.
A few miles from the course is a place called Earlstown. The plastics factory there has been on fire all day.

Edit.
My Bro just messaged me. They can see it from Birkenhead..... 25 miles away.

 

[pawl]

I have no memory of the name, but when I googled I recognised the face. As a child I adored Jimmy Edwards though because I had a fascinations for both the trombone and his madcap humour.

Wasn’t he referred to asProf Jimmy Edwards.Did he have a program on radio called Whaco

I will have to cease reading this thread it’s dragging my memory back to the mid 40s

 

[monkers]

Wasn’t he referred to asProf Jimmy Edwards.Did he have a program on radio called Whaco

I will have to cease reading this thread it’s dragging my memory back to the mid 40s

Doubly correct. 😊 I don't think I ever heard Waco though. Although he was not actually a professor, his father was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Edwards

I was born in 57. I remember seeing him on telly from about 1959/60 I guess.

It's not that I know too much about him, as I kid I just loved the clowning he did with the trombone.

 

[Dave7]

Doubly correct. 😊 I don't think I ever heard Waco though. Although he was not actually a professor, his father was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Edwards

I was born in 57. I remember seeing him on telly from about 1959/60 I guess.

It's not that I know too much about him, as I kid I just loved the clowning he did with the trombone.

Is that THE Jimmy Edwards with the handlebar moustache

 

[monkers]

Is that THE Jimmy Edwards with the handlebar moustache

''Edwards served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, commissioned in April 1942, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and ended the war as a flight lieutenant. He served with No. 271 Squadron RAF, based in Doncaster, which took part in the D-Day landings.[1] His Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in 1944, resulting in facial injuries requiring plastic surgery, which he disguised with a huge handlebar moustache that became his trademark. Additionally, he was a member of the Guinea Pig Club. '' (from wiki)

 

[classic33]

I've done a 20 mph average on that route before now.Think me legs is gerrin' owder......

No more than any other part.

And maybe not as old as you think.
"According to researchers, the body replaces itself with a largely new set of cells every seven years to 10 years, and some of our most important parts are revamped even more rapidly [sources: Stanford University, Northrup]."

 

[Mo1959]

Eventually mustered the enthusiasm for a ride. Jeez, it got a bit hot, especially on the hills. 56 miles with 3,333 feet of climbing. Happy enough with that considering I couldn't be bothered! Lol.