The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

I am going for a bimble very soon. Hopefully it won't be too hot.

 

[Mo1959]

I am going for a bimble very soon. Hopefully it won't be too hot.

At least cycling you get some air flow unless you happen to be climbing.......very slowly as I usually do! Lol

 

[monkers]

Good morning all.....A very warm night, luckily I had the ceiling fan on full speed, at one point I thought the room was going to take off

Zoom quiz night tonight, got to compile 10 stinker questions, thinking cap on! ...Have a good day peeps 🌈

1 Who is the only person to have held all four great offices of state in the UK?
2 Which song is the only one to have been in the UK top ten by two different artists at the same time?
3 Whose initials are represented in the James Bond car Aston Martin DB5?
4 What were the first names of Gilbert and Sullivan?
5 Which constituency did Margaret Thatcher first contest and lose twice ?
6 What common name is given to the creature lumbricus terrestris?
7 Which town is the most easterly in the UK?
8 In what year was Charles 1st executed?
9 What SI unit of pressure is equivalent to 98.6% of one atmosphere?
10 Who was the author of the book -The Third Policeman?

I can provide the answers if you wish.

Hope there's at least one in there you can use so you can sit in the garden with a refreshing drink and listen to birdsong instead. Have a great day now.

 

[Landsurfer]

Sorry .... some of us where retired for some time but had to go back to work part time when we took on the children .... we're classed as "Kinship" carers, so we don't get a penny of financial support for looking after them ... .... but their lovely kids ... at times ...

I'll take the red card ........ bye folks .....

 

[GM]

1 Who is the only person to have held all four great offices of state in the UK?
2 Which song is the only one to have been in the UK top ten by two different artists at the same time?
3 Whose initials are represented in the James Bond car Aston Martin DB5?
4 What were the first names of Gilbert and Sullivan?
5 Which constituency did Margaret Thatcher first contest and lose twice ?
6 What common name is given to the creature lumbricus terrestris?
7 Which town is the most easterly in the UK?
8 In what year was Charles 1st executed?
9 What SI unit of pressure is equivalent to 98.6% of one atmosphere?
10 Who was the author of the book -The Third Policeman?

I can provide the answers if you wish.

Hope there's at least one in there you can use so you can sit in the garden with a refreshing drink and listen to birdsong instead. Have a great day now.

Thanks for that, very handy. I'll use a couple of those, I think number 2 is You've lost that loving feeling by The Righteous Brothers and Cilla Black.
Number 3, David Brown. Number 5, I think is Finchley, I could be wrong though.
Answers to all would be very handy. Thanks!

 

[Mo1959]

Sorry .... some of us where retired for some time but had to go back to work part time when we took on the children .... we're classed as "Kinship" carers, so we don't get a penny of financial support for looking after them ... .... but their lovely kids ... at times ...

I'll take the red card ........ bye folks .....

Lol.........we're only teasing!

 

[monkers]

Thanks for that, very handy. I'll use a couple of those, I think number 2 is You've lost that loving feeling by The Righteous Brothers and Cilla Black.
Number 3, David Brown. Number 5, I think is Finchley, I could be wrong though.
Answers to all would be very handy. Thanks!

1 Jim Callaghan
2 Don't Leave Me This Way (1977 - Harold Melvin & Thelma Houston).
3 David Brown
4 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (many people will say George Gilbert in confusion with the architect George Gilbert Scott)
5 Dartford (Kent - 1950 & 1951 - then Margaret Roberts). She took Finchley in 1959.
6 The common earthworm.
7 Lowestoft in Suffolk.
8 30th January 1649
9 The 'bar'.
10 Flann O'Brien (real name Brian O'Nolan)

Addendum. Q2 ... you'd better make that top 20. I'm now not so sure that Thelma Houston made it into the top 10. I'll try google.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19770213/7501/

 

[Deleted member 1258]

1 Who is the only person to have held all four great offices of state in the UK?
2 Which song is the only one to have been in the UK top ten by two different artists at the same time?
3 Whose initials are represented in the James Bond car Aston Martin DB5?
4 What were the first names of Gilbert and Sullivan?
5 Which constituency did Margaret Thatcher first contest and lose twice ?
6 What common name is given to the creature lumbricus terrestris?
7 Which town is the most easterly in the UK?
8 In what year was Charles 1st executed?
9 What SI unit of pressure is equivalent to 98.6% of one atmosphere?
10 Who was the author of the book -The Third Policeman?

I can provide the answers if you wish.

Hope there's at least one in there you can use so you can sit in the garden with a refreshing drink and listen to birdsong instead. Have a great day now.

I'd have to google all of them, I've now got a big black hole where my brain used to be.

 

[Mo1959]

I'd have to google all of them, I've now got a big black hole where my brain used to be.

Lol. I guessed the earthworm

 

[classic33]

Errrrrrr............did you quote the wrong post? Because as much as I enjoy everyone's company, frankly, no, a VERY firm NO!!!!!

Was it the wellies or the bloomers that helped you decide?

 

[Landsurfer]

That was the hottest night of the year so far, we had the fan on at 2 this morning, all windows open and doors to help air flow and we both gave up and had a hot shower at about 0530 .... that worked !!

 

[gavroche]

1 Jim Callaghan
2 Don't Leave Me This Way (1977 - Harold Melvin & Thelma Houston).
3 David Brown
4 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (many people will say George Gilbert in confusion with the architect George Gilbert Scott)
5 Dartford (Kent - 1950 & 1951 - then Margaret Roberts). She took Finchley in 1959.
6 The common earthworm.
7 Lowestoft in Suffolk.
8 30th January 1649
9 The 'bar'.
10 Flann O'Brien (real name Brian O'Nolan)

Addendum. Q2 ... you'd better make that top 20. I'm now not so sure that Thelma Houston made it into the top 10. I'll try google.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19770213/7501/

I didn't know any of them but my excuse is that I am not British ah ah ! By the way, Salut tout le monde.

 

[Paulus]

1 Who is the only person to have held all four great offices of state in the UK?
2 Which song is the only one to have been in the UK top ten by two different artists at the same time?
3 Whose initials are represented in the James Bond car Aston Martin DB5?
4 What were the first names of Gilbert and Sullivan?
5 Which constituency did Margaret Thatcher first contest and lose twice ?
6 What common name is given to the creature lumbricus terrestris?
7 Which town is the most easterly in the UK?
8 In what year was Charles 1st executed?
9 What SI unit of pressure is equivalent to 98.6% of one atmosphere?
10 Who was the author of the book -The Third Policeman?

I can provide the answers if you wish.

Hope there's at least one in there you can use so you can sit in the garden with a refreshing drink and listen to birdsong instead. Have a great day now.

No 6 is Hippotamus
No.7 Lowestoft
No. 9 Bar?

Thanks for that, very handy. I'll use a couple of those, I think number 2 is You've lost that loving feeling by The Righteous Brothers and Cilla Black.
Number 3, David Brown. Number 5, I think is Finchley, I could be wrong though.
Answers to all would be very handy. Thanks!

I think you are correct John.

 

[classic33]

1 Who is the only person to have held all four great offices of state in the UK?
2 Which song is the only one to have been in the UK top ten by two different artists at the same time?
3 Whose initials are represented in the James Bond car Aston Martin DB5?
4 What were the first names of Gilbert and Sullivan?
5 Which constituency did Margaret Thatcher first contest and lose twice ?
6 What common name is given to the creature lumbricus terrestris?
7 Which town is the most easterly in the UK?
8 In what year was Charles 1st executed?
9 What SI unit of pressure is equivalent to 98.6% of one atmosphere?
10 Who was the author of the book -The Third Policeman?

I can provide the answers if you wish.

Hope there's at least one in there you can use so you can sit in the garden with a refreshing drink and listen to birdsong instead. Have a great day now.

2. Radio 2! Even then it was a deliberate attempt to manipulate the charts as both were pressed by the same manufacturer. Agent and artist became aware of this and demanded that both be pressed at the same time, as per the contract. Within a week the artists position in the charts were reversed.

That's an easy one.

 

[monkers]

No 6 is Hippotamus
No.7 Lowestoft
No. 9 Bar?

I think you are correct John.

Hippopotamus is both the latin name and the common name from ... hippopotamus amphibius.