The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Morning all

Got to give MrsDs box a good seeing to first thing.
The ivy is overgrowing it and she can't see the birdies feeding.
Off out to Barny after.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Enjoyed another fine pre breakfast binocular wander earlier, within 10 minutes of leaving the house I’d seen 2 dippers, 3 roe deer, a tree creeper and watched a male blackbird feeding 3 fledglings on the ground, not a bad start. Later saw a jay and heard lots of whitethroats but couldn’t manage to see any.

 

[numbnuts]

 

[GM]

Morning all...I've just won 1/4 million pounds playing Who wants to be a millionaire online on my tablet. If only it were for real I'd buy you all a new bike, even another new one for Monkers!
Another busy day beckons, stay safe peeps! 🌈

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Something to think about.
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A fascinating subject. I’m puzzled why this image talks about ‘the Scots’ as if they were one people. I’d say they were 5, basically 4 quarters centred on Stirling, top left are Scots, top right Picts, bottom right including Edinburgh originally British then Anglo-Saxon, bottom left including Glasgow British Welsh. And bordered to the North and West by Vikings.
I wish I knew where I was from, the only bit I know for certain is on my mother’s side, her Dad was Devon and her Mum the Anglo-Saxon bit of Pembrokeshire, the Pembrokeshire Englishry as it was known.

 

[Mo1959]

Enjoyed another fine pre breakfast binocular wander earlier, within 10 minutes of leaving the house I’d seen 2 dippers, 3 roe deer, a tree creeper and watched a male blackbird feeding 3 fledglings on the ground, not a bad start. Later saw a jay and heard lots of whitethroats but couldn’t manage to see any.

I love the little Treecreepers. Saw one the other day on my morning walk.

 

[monkers]

Morning all...I've just won 1/4 million pounds playing Who wants to be a millionaire online on my tablet. If only it were for real I'd buy you all a new bike, even another new one for Monkers!
Another busy day beckons, stay safe peeps! 🌈

I've been a cyclist again now since May 13th, so I'm not due my fourth one until Wednesday.

Actually life with the Emonda is good, I think this one is a keeper.

 

[Dave7]

Enjoyed another fine pre breakfast binocular wander earlier, within 10 minutes of leaving the house I’d seen 2 dippers, 3 roe deer, a tree creeper and watched a male blackbird feeding 3 fledglings on the ground, not a bad start. Later saw a jay and heard lots of whitethroats but couldn’t manage to see any.

Jealous of you flick.
Is it Lothian you live?
I assume very rural ?
Where we live USED to be rural but in the 70s was designated a 'new town' and within short time the population went from 60,000 to 250,000. Our house was surrounded by open land and farms. All gone now. OK tbf as far as estates go SOME of it is well thought out but the fact is they destroyed all that beautiful land and wiped oit all the wild life.
Very very sad.

 

[Dave7]

Reporting back for duty.
1st errand done.

A question for you........
When you do your weekly shop, do you sanitise every single item?
Or maybe none ?
I do every item. Until today when I thought......hang about.....many of these items are palletised and not been touched by humans. So I concentrated on other items and just gave the palletised ones a quick wipe down.

 

[screenman]

Back from the tip run, they are not taking old engine oil at the moment so that came back with us for the second time, a 32 mile round trip I suppose is one of the things about living rural

 

[Mo1959]

Reporting back for duty.
1st errand done.

A question for you........
When you do your weekly shop, do you sanitise every single item?
Or maybe none ?
I do every item. Until today when I thought......hang about.....many of these items are palletised and not been touched by humans. So I concentrated on other items and just gave the palletised ones a quick wipe down.

Nope. I'm a bit blasé about shopping. I do the social distancing when in, get home and put shopping away and give my hands a wash and that's it. Likewise with any mail or parcels. They get opened and then hands washed.

 

[pawl]

Is that what causes the black scaly stuff on them?

Don’t no.My old dad used to tell me a grape is a gooseberry with its hair shaved off.

 

[numbnuts]

A question for you........
When you do your weekly shop, do you sanitise every single item?
Or maybe none ?
I do every item. Until today when I thought......hang about.....many of these items are palletised and not been touched by humans. So I concentrated on other items and just gave the palletised ones a quick wipe down.

I sanitise my hands as soon as I get back to the car and again at home, but do nothing to the shopping or the mail.....
so far so good

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Jealous of you flick.
Is it Lothian you live?
I assume very rural ?
Where we live USED to be rural but in the 70s was designated a 'new town' and within short time the population went from 60,000 to 250,000. Our house was surrounded by open land and farms. All gone now. OK tbf as far as estates go SOME of it is well thought out but the fact is they destroyed all that beautiful land and wiped oit all the wild life.
Very very sad.

I live on the edge of Edinburgh next to the Pentlands. The city centre is only about 5 miles away and air, traffic, and local barracks firing range noise is ever present but in many respects it feels very rural. We are very lucky. Locally I’ve seen otters, kingfishers, ospreys, badgers, cuckoos and barn owls.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I sanitise my hands as soon as I get back to the car and again at home, but do nothing to the shopping or the mail.....
so far so good

Same here.