The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

I hope they have not left, it was such a great place to pop in on, mind you I noticed earlier this week a change in the place.

It's lockdown fever......everybody is getting tetchy.

 

[classic33]

It's lockdown fever......everybody is getting tetchy.

I am not getting "tetchy"!
Don't tell me what I'll be getting, should be a surprise anyway.

 

[Dirk]

I am not getting "tetchy"!
Don't tell me what I'll be getting, should be a surprise anyway.

If I say you're getting tetchy......you're getting tetchy......wanna make summat of it?

 

[classic33]

If I say you're getting tetchy......you're getting tetchy......wanna make summat of it?

No more exports from TT's in Keighley.

 

[Drago]

The Uists are a bit too far out and low lying for winter comfort. An t eilean Muileach actually is where I have been for nearly 50 years now but getting too much of a theme park and one is supposed to bow down to the almighty tourist.

Lovely, although a bit inshore for me. The tourism is a double edged sword - once it gets to a certain level it becomes unwelcome, but then without it many of the islands economies would be unsustainable. A bit like the oil industry back home when I was a wee one, but without it the island would have been close on unpopulated by now. I counter it by staying well off the beaten track, although last time I was in Shaetlan earlier in the year I was in Lerwick and bumped into and ex Bobby who I'd not seen since I was in TVP in the 90's, so even 700 miles away from what is nominally now home it's difficult to keep my head down

Dont get me wrong, its nice here in rural middle England, but I dont have to travel 10 miles to get the noise, concrete, dirt and bustle that I just hate.

 

[Dirk]

Tomorrow in Devon.......

 

[classic33]

"I ask you a riddle, and if you can’t answer it by the time I spell Killiecrankie, you must pay a forfeit…Now this is the riddle:"

 

[Dirk]

"I ask you a riddle, and if you can’t answer it by the time I spell Killiecrankie, you must pay a forfeit…Now this is the riddle:"

......." What is the difference betwixt the thistle in the heather, and the kiss in the dark?"

 

[Drago]

I also fancy the Scllies, but houses are in short supply and I don't want to eat into any of my capital to raise 500 large or more.

 

[Dirk]

I also fancy the Scllies, but houses are in short supply and I don't want to eat into any of my capital to raise 500 large or more.

I can see up moving to somewhere on Bodmin Moor in a few years time.

 

[classic33]

I can see up moving to somewhere on Bodmin Moor in a few years time.

To the Beast?

 

[Dirk]

To the Beast?

Yep.
https://www.exmoorales.co.uk/exmoor-beast/

 

[Paulus]

The evening alfresco escape committee meeting was cut short due to the early rainfall.
I was the last man sitting.

 

[classic33]

The evening alfresco escape committee meeting was cut short due to the early rainfall.
I was the last man sitting.
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Lawn needs seeing to.

 

[Drago]

Where are the ladies?

BTW - I know what @monkers real first name is.