The Retirement Thread

[BoldonLad]

Given where the Angles, Jutes and Saxons came from, surely it’s a given that there will be a large part Germanic in those of us from what used to be Northumbria down to what used to be Wessex ?

Indeed, not to mention the influx of DNA which must have come with the Romans. One of the many reasons I find the obsession with Nationality slightly amusing.

 

[BoldonLad]

It’s raining here.🙎‍♀️🌂🌂🌂

and here! we are patiently waiting for a dry spell to go out on the Tandem

 

[BoldonLad]

Typical little boy thing.

Nothing changes as we "grow up" I can assure you

 

[BoldonLad]

Coal!!! You could afford coal? Me and my Bro used to take an old pram to fill up with coke.
You must have been posh.

Did you used to "coal picking" on the waste heap?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It’s raining here.🙎‍♀️🌂🌂🌂

I've just been down the paper shop and its drizzling here as well.

 

[BoldonLad]

I like bees but dislike wasps, last time I was stung by a wasp I ended up in A & E. I was cycling through Offchurch and it landed on my top lip.

Hmm... while riding my motorcycle, in Spain, on a very warm day, I foolishly, had the visor on my helmet open. A wasp flew in. I divided my time between watching the traffic nd where I was going, with observing the wasp crawl around the rim of my helmet, and, hoping it did not decide to sting!

 

[pawl]

So my wasp swarm story. You've been waiting for this, I can tell.

Two summers ago I went walking with Mrs P and a friend. On our return and about a mile from the car park we had to walk down a diverted footpath. This had open fields on both sides, was wide enough to walk single file and enclosed by a three strand barbed wire fence - gotta love farmers!

I was perhaps 50 yards ahead of my wife and friend. A jogger came towards me, I stood to one side and carried on walking. The next thing Mrs P observes is Paul running down the path, throws away his pole, then cap, next rips off the rucksack followed by T-Shirt. Finally they caught up with me somewhat bemused.

Turns out the jogger had disturbed a wasp nest. I walked straight in to an angry swarm of wasps. All I knew was something was attacking me all over so the flight instinct kicked in. We counted over 50 stings.

Mrs P and our so called "friend" have recounted this story with great glee on many occasions. 😭😭😭

A few years ago I was cutting the conifer hedge when I came across what looked like a ball caught in the branches.Poked it with the hedge trimmer ,big mistake it was a wasps nest.Stung three times.I have never come across a wasps nest like that..

The only other time I have had a wasps nest was in s nest box .A quick blast with the Karcher pressure washer at long range soon had them looking for alternative accommodation.

 

[welsh dragon]

Nothing changes as we "grow up" I can assure you

Don't I know it.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have had to do some houseworky stuff.

 

[Dirk]

First flowers on my runner beans appeared overnight.

 

[Dave7]

Did you used to "coal picking" on the waste heap?

Not as I recall. No mines anywhere near us.

 

[Dave7]

Don't I know it.

May I ask just how you know it ?

 

[welsh dragon]

May I ask just how you know it ?

No. You may not.

 

[Dave7]

Well we got our walk in but sadly the golf course is still cordoned off and has guards on the gates. As I said, its an overspill for the morgue. Someone we know was saying their grandson has the job of keeping the temerature steady in the freezer wagons. Some job that is

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Thats interesting, and annoying. I redecorated in here a couple of months ago, I noticed after the hot spell had finished that a section of paper on the back chimney breast had lifted, annoying, normally if I stick it down it stays stuck. I mixed up some more paste and stuck it down, looked at it the following day and not all of it had stuck down, I repeated it and again and again more had stuck down but not all, repeated again and the same thing has happened and I've still got a small edge that hasn't stuck down.