The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning fellow retirees,

Not a very restful night after being coerced into entering an Olympic cycling event which involved cycling up and down the access ramps in a multi storey car park. I woke up before discovering if I'd won a medal.
ERNIE has delivered a single £25, the sun is shining and a visit from daughter and granddaughter to look forward to.

Have a lovely peaceful day folks 🚴‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚶‍♀️🌞

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

My back still hurts from working on the car yesterday, so a nice restful day for me today, methinks.

 

[Dave7]

BTW.....are there any complainers here. I mean, if you buy something eg food that is well below promise.
About 12 months ago I started to think "this is not good enough. OK it only cost eg £5.00 but its crap".
emails are free so I started to let the manufacturers know.........I also let them know if things are above expectation.
I don't spend all day complaining, it maybe once every 2 months.......BUT it works. 90% of the time they respond with a voucher.
EG..... I recently bought 2 pizzaa. One was chicken tikka. Sounds odd but the photo and description were good. It was dreadful. Ruined a meal. About 10 tiny lumps of what looked like chicken. To make it worse.....in BIG letters...."authentic, made in Italy". In small letters "chicken is from Thailand".
Complained......voucher on the way.
Rant over

 

[Dave7]

Nothing complicated, we have a very good quality leather 3 piece what I intend to do is clean it and apply a leather balm to restore the colour to some slightly faded area's, it is not a fast job and expect it to take a day or two.

Our last suite (before this one) was a quite expensive leather one.
Within 6 months, on one arm, the leather was peeling.
The company we purchased from had gone bust. We got nowhere with the "italian" manufacturer.
Its now sat on the daughters covered balcony.

 

[Paulus]

Our last suit (before this one) was a quite expensive leather one.
Within 6 months, on one arm, the leather was peeling.
The company we purchased from had gone bust. We got nowhere with the "italian" manufacturer.
Its now sat on the daughters covered balcony.

A leather suit, a bit bohemian these days.

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning fellow retirees,

Not a very restful night after being coerced into entering an Olympic cycling event which involved cycling up and down the access ramps in a multi storey car park. I woke up before discovering if I'd won a medal.
ERNIE has delivered a single £25, the sun is shining and a visit from daughter and granddaughter to look forward to.

Have a lovely peaceful day folks 🚴‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚶‍♀️🌞

I'm a little unsure if this is a bizarre thing or a dream. You and @screenman are beginning to make me doubt my grip on reality. 😟

 

[Mo1959]

That's the rain on now. I tried jogging a gentle 5k this morning before it came on. Will see how the decrepit body reacts over the next couple of days!

Rain or no rain, I will need to go to the supermarket at some point.

 

[numbnuts]

Morning all, highlight of the day is shopping

 

[welsh dragon]

Good Morning. A bit cool here and rain is predicted.

Talkong about Ernie, apparently millions of pounds are being poured Into bonds by people probably thinking that the Interest will be going to zero. That means the odds of winning the jackpot have gone down are now a lot longer....

Stay safe folks

 

[Dave7]

A leather suit, a bit bohemian these days.

haha. Corrected now

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning all. Damp grey, raining, windy. I've entered a new Strava thing today which involves cycling backwards over the garden shed wearing expensive gloves and women's shoes.

Later? 🤔 Well there is nothing which has to be done. I did drop a pen which meant looking under the sofa. Today's housework should include moving the furniture when hoovering. 😱

Once chores are complete hopefully it will be dry enough to clean the bike, then it will be jigsaw puzzle and studying a new route for a late August ride we have in mind. All this is largely a case of finding stuff to do.

 

[Mo1959]

Uncle ERNIE has come up trumps again. 3x £25.

Doesn't appear to be anything for me this month. That's the first month since I bought them I haven't at least had £25.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Off to LIDL in Ilfracombe this morning and then doggie walking around Bicclescombe park on the way back.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Morning folks, not a good one, my Good lady had a minor fall last night, didn't hurt herself but went to hospital for tests, I've now heard she's being admitted, because of current restrctions I wasn't allowed to go with her so I'm sat here exchanging texts wondering whats going on.

 

[Mo1959]

Morning folks, not a good one, my Good lady had a minor fall last night, didn't hurt herself but went to hospital for tests, I've now heard she's being admitted, because of current restrctions I wasn't allowed to go with her so I'm sat here exchanging texts wondering whats going on.

Oh no. Sorry to hear that Dave. Hope you get some good news soon.