The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning folks.

 

[Paulus]

Morning all, tea is being drunk, Tony Blackbum on the radio with his shocking jokes, how else is there to start a Saturday morning.
Cloudy and humid at the moment.
A bit of gardening today, tidying up the front. It looks a bit forlorn and dry. There is some rain forecast for tomorrow though.
I don't have any enthusiasm for a bike ride today, maybe tomorrow dodging the showers. 🚴‍♂️

 

[welsh dragon]

Good morning. A horrible windy, dull overcast and cold day here and yep the forecast is for the entire day.

Stay safe folks.

 

[Drago]

Like a snake charmers spitting cobra, I have risen!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning fellow retirees,

A bit vague this morning as yesterday afternoons walk across the Heath took us past a little industrial estate which is the home of Sandbanks Brewery which happened to be open.
Lots of hand sanitiser on draught, and some glorious beers which we sampled whilst sitting in the sun having a natter 🍺
Have a lovely peaceful day folks 🏃‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚲🚶🌞

 

[PaulSB]

Hello world, here I am not exactly bright eyed and bushy tailed but functioning adequately. Forecast has proved bang on so far, currently grey and still but 96% chance of rain reducing to 19% at 4.00

It's village Sports and Social Club picnic today at 4.00pm so very much hoping the forecast is correct. I'm working the bar from 5.30. Amongst other sporting activities there will be croquet - wooooh, get the Pimms and boaters out!!!

Someone brought a set along last week. I'd forgotten what a good, fun game it is, especially playing doubles.

The rest of my day focuses on a mountain of ironing similar to an EU butter surplus, the Guardian codeword around 9.00 when the paper arrives - love this on a Saturday - followed by a LOT of household admin.

Finally got my refund from Tonik Energy, 5 months and the Ombudsman to get £128.42. Daft.

 

[PaulSB]

Serious question now. I had a hearing test at Boots last week. The audiologist spent 90 minutes with me and explained things regarding hearing and modern hearing aids which despite four years of previous tests had never been mentioned. She was genuinely disappointed to find this was the case.

So do any of you wear hearing aids? Any comparison of in ear and out of ear?

Have to say I was seriously impressed with the aids I tried. If I'd been given the same info as last week I might well have bought aids some time ago.

The cost is very significant so I need to be making the right decision.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Morning all, a brighter start today

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Mo1959]

Morning. Sorry to rub it in to all you southerners but it's lovely up here

Took the mountain bike for a change. Mix of roads and off road. The new cycle path running from Comrie to St Fillans cuts through grazing and the sheep seem to love to lie on it for some reason. It is covered in poo. I stopped at one point to get a stick and scrape the worst off as I didn't fancy eating it if it got thrown up off the wheel. Within seconds the midges descended so couldn't wait to get going again.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Just like Drago's spotting conrad I have also risen.
Off to Honiton this morning for a bit of shopping, then having a walk around Hembury castle Iron Age fort. A spot of luncheon at a local hostelry should round the morning off nicely.

 

[Dave7]

Aldi dash complete.
Sat in conservatory at the moment and its piddling down.
Next stop is the butchers and then the aunty with her goodies.
@PaulSB
I wear a hearing aid. There are certain sounds/pitches I can't hear very well so I dont wear it all the time.
Mine has a sort of plug that you shove in your lughole and a small unit that sits behind the actual ear. Its an NHS one so cost me nowt.
Cant compare as I've never looked at others. If my problem was worse and I wore it all the time I would look into paying for a better one.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Morning all

Just like Drago's spotting conrad I have also risen.
Off to Honiton this morning for a bit of shopping, then having a walk around Hembury castle Iron Age fort. A spot of luncheon at a local hostelry should round the morning off nicely.

Honiton used to have its own Marathon race back in the 80's, it was sponsored by Oasis Motors IIRC.
It's memorable because Chris, one of my running friends was very short sighted but being young and vain at the time, he refused to wear glasses.
There was quite a crowd at the approach to the finish so Chris decided to showboat by waving to the crowd and weaving from side to side as he approached the finishing line.
He didn't hear us screaming at him to look at the big clock above the finish line with the digits 2:59:54, :55:, 56:, ...
He crossed the line in a time of 3:00:01 much to his dismay at not achieving a sub 3 hour marathon time. Of course, seeing his obvious disappointment and being the good mates that we are, we never mentioned it again... 😉

 

[numbnuts]

Morning. Sorry to rub it in to all you southerners but it's lovely up here

Took the mountain bike for a change. Mix of roads and off road. The new cycle path running from Comrie to St Fillans cuts through grazing and the sheep seem to love to lie on it for some reason. It is covered in poo. I stopped at one point to get a stick and scrape the worst off as I didn't fancy eating it if it got thrown up off the wheel. Within seconds the midges descended so couldn't wait to get going again.

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It's always greener on the other side of the hill, or maybe I just don't see the beauty in my area

 

[classic33]

Good morning fellow retirees,

A bit vague this morning as yesterday afternoons walk across the Heath took us past a little industrial estate which is the home of Sandbanks Brewery which happened to be open.
Lots of hand sanitiser on draught, and some glorious beers which we sampled whilst sitting in the sun having a natter 🍺
Have a lovely peaceful day folks 🏃‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚲🚶🌞

Draught "Hand Sanitiser", could you have more than one pint?