The Retirement Thread

[oldwheels]

Cycling cancelled
My gouts flared up in my left foot ... in the past hour !
I take medication to control uric acid levels in my blood but they seem to have been overwhelmed..
Since i stopped drinking, some months ago, i drink diet and sugar free Coke a lot ...
I wonder ......????? .... The Coke ?

We used to use copper wire to hold up our display at trade fairs. To clean this and prevent staining we used to dip it in coke. What can it be doing to our gut? I never drink it nowadays.

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. Very windy today, gale force so cycling will not happen....... again. Nothing planned so far so it could be another boring day ahead.

 

[screenman]

No Oh what day was it yesterday?

I know that one, it was the day before this one.

 

[PaulSB]

........ Hoaching.......

That's a nice word. I shall try to remember it...........had to refer to Google.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning then. Well I say good as it's the accepted norm. Morning would be a more accurate statement as there's nothing good about the weather. Rained all night, frequent heavy bursts now and blowing a gale. I'm sat next to the chimney breast and the wind is howling like November.

So what have you done so far today Paul? I've been searching for bits of seagull. Next I plan some blue sky thinking.

 

[Tenkaykev]

We used to use copper wire to hold up our display at trade fairs. To clean this and prevent staining we used to dip it in coke. What can it be doing to our gut? I never drink it nowadays.

Phosphoric acid IIRC, I don't touch the stuff now, it always used to make me feel thirsty again within a few minutes.
It does however make an excellent toilet bowl cleaner, get a cheap supermarket own brand cola and chuck it in the toilet bowl overnight. Flush in the morning and one sparkly clean toilet 👍

 

[pawl]

Friday

I’m not sure.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

They're very good, now our preferred Veggie sausage, having displaced the sainted Linda at the top of the Veggie sausage hit parade😁
Baxters are (or were?) a popular traditional sausage maker.
The packaging is well presented with an outer cardboard sleeve complete with fold out recipe flap.

I’ve just googled Baxter’s vegetarian sausage but it only returns stuff from the Baxter’s we know up here, soups and pickles etc. I presume the sausages are a different Baxter’s ?

 

[classic33]

I know that one, it was the day before this one.

Today

 

[numbnuts]

Friday

Yes it's Friday as I have Bass for dinner, no not the liquid kind the fishy one🐟

 

[Tenkaykev]

I’ve just googled Baxter’s vegetarian sausage but it only returns stuff from the Baxter’s we know up here, soups and pickles etc. I presume the sausages are a different Baxter’s ?

Oh my giddy aunt! I've just popped to the fridge and they are "Richmond" Irish recipe Veggie sausage 🙄
Not sure where I got the Baxter’s from though they do make some outstanding Veggie friendly soups.

 

[welsh dragon]

Oh my giddy aunt! I've just popped to the fridge and they are "Richmond" Irish recipe Veggie sausage 🙄
Not sure where I got the Baxter’s from though they do make some outstanding Veggie friendly soups.

Richmond sausages are crap. . Veggie ones and ordinary ones.

 

[classic33]

Richmond sausages are crap. . Veggie ones and ordinary ones.

Wash yer mouth out!

 

[oldwheels]

Morning. I took the hybrid for nearly 40 miles and did a nice scenic loop of Loch Earn. Hoaching with fishers again like the pre covid days. Almost made it home dry but the rain came on for the last three miles.

It is many years since I cycled in your area. Latterly I travelled often along Loch Earn on my way to Aberdeen . Fortunately it is mostly quiet so a wider vehicle was not too bad on the narrow road at least at the times I travelled. St Fillans was a handy toilet stop but the last I heard they had been closed but that was second hand and possibly off season.

 

[Dirk]

We used to use copper wire to hold up our display at trade fairs. To clean this and prevent staining we used to dip it in coke. What can it be doing to our gut? I never drink it nowadays.

I used to use it for freeing the pistons that had seized in old motorcycle engines, that had been stood for a long time.
I think it's the small percentage of Phosphoric acid in the Coke that does the job.