The Retirement Thread

[monkers]

Oh, almost forgot........... @monkers well done, keep it up and all will be good in a few weeks.

Thank you Paul. I'm chomping at the bit to get out there, but it has been raining here, and looking through the velux, the clouds are fair whizzing by.

Addendum .... was it Frank Cooper's? 😊

 

[Tenkaykev]

I agree, the green woodpecker has a very distinctive call which gives it it’s onomatopoeic country name of ‘yaffle’. Viewers of a certain age will no doubt remember Bagpuss’s friend Professor Yaffle.
They are widespread in England but not so common in Scotland, although I believe they have been spreading further north in recent decades. I’ve seen the odd one around Edinburgh.

The penny has just dropped. There's a really nice big house set in large grounds that I pass on occasion called " Yaffle Lodge"
I'd wondered about the name...

 

[PaulSB]

Thank you Paul. I'm chomping at the bit to get out there, but it has been raining here, and looking through the velux, the clouds are fair whizzing by.

Addendum .... was it Frank Cooper's? 😊

No, Frank wouldn't let me have his jar, he seems to have hidden it!! Stute from Booth's for me - really good and £1 - not as good as Frank's vintage Oxford though. ☹️

Through our kitchen Velux is usually my riding gauge too. If the tree tops are moving or the rain tapping it's a "rest" day 🤫

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay! It's Fish Friday.
Our go to chippie has finally opened.
Online order place and will be picking it up later.
I also tentatively booked a site for the caravan for the first week in July. No deposit required and the site owner is quite flexible if we need to change the dates. At least there's some light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[PaulSB]

PS @monkers - as a recent arrival here you need to know Booth's is the UK's best and smallest supermarket chain. Largely we retain this secret to Lancashire though we have allowed the good folk in Cheshire to have one and those media types in Manchester. In fact I believe we have even been generous enough to allow that lot over the border a taste of Lancashire's finest .....😀

Hugely expensive and these days we can only afford to pop in for yellow label items and treats...... otherwise it's ALDI.

 

[Drago]

Well, I've given up with Twatter. I joined a few days ago to see what it was like. I've not posted anything, just watching and lurking, but it's full of idiots so account deleted.

 

[pawl]

PS @monkers - as a recent arrival here you need to know Booth's is the UK's best and smallest supermarket chain. Largely we retain this secret to Lancashire though we have allowed the good folk in Cheshire to have one and those media types in Manchester. In fact I believe we have even been generous enough to allow that lot over the border a taste of Lancashire's finest .....😀

Hugely expensive and these days we can only afford to pop in for yellow label items and treats...... otherwise it's ALDI.

I liked the one in Keswick Good cafe

 

[Mo1959]

Mo. Out of interest. If you heard it then its unlikely to be a 'Green'**. It will more likely be a Greater or Lesser Spotted.
You can get to recognise which by the repetition of its drumming.
**the Green pecker has a weak bill and burrows for insects as against pecking/drumming. It often feeds on the ground.
A mate of mine has been studying birds for 60 years and, when were out, could instantly tell which one we were hearing. I could tell if I heard it long enough.
Mo.....please dont think I am pontificating. This is, as I said, just out of interest.

No, it was the call. I often see and hear the Greater Spotted, but I'm sure it's the Green I am hearing.

Quite distinctive. https://www.british-birdsongs.uk/green-woodpecker/

 

[monkers]

I'd not heard of Booth's. The weather looks good on Monday, I'll cycle up for a jar And then nip across country to Betty's for lunch 😄

 

[pawl]

Thank you Paul. I'm chomping at the bit to get out there, but it has been raining here, and looking through the velux, the clouds are fair whizzing by.

Addendum .... was it Frank Cooper's? 😊

Who ls this Frank Cooper of who you speak?

 

[Mo1959]

Who ls this Frank Cooper of who you speak?

I do believe it's this! Lol.

 

[monkers]

Who ls this Frank Cooper of who you speak?

My breakfast marmalade of choice.

 

[monkers]

I do believe it's this! Lol.

Remind me not to play against you on 'fastest finger first' on Who Wants To Be A Millioniare.

 

[Mo1959]

Remind me not to play against you on 'fastest finger first' on Who Wants To Be A Millioniare.

.........and I don't even like marmalade.

 

[oldwheels]

Forecast for today is light showers and wind up to 50 mph. Tomorrow heavy rain showers and winds up to 54 mph. My grass needs cut again as I seem to have a particularly fast growing strain on the front. I now know very little about grass but when I was a student many years ago I knew all about grass. How memory fades if you do not use it. The knowledge will be buried somewhere in my brain but so far down I cannot reach it.