The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

@welsh dragon @Drago @Paulus
I have you disagree with you on that. What about........
Gone
Shone
I rest my case

You just don't know how to speak proper English like what I do.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have returned from an 11 mile Dampish bimble. Very humid and muggy here. Loads of traffic as well especially caravans and motor homes. Looks like we are in for a busy weekend.

 

[Dave7]

You just don't know how to speak proper English like what I do.

Course I does......I am a Scouser!!!
I was dragged up proper.

 

[Dave7]

Dry morning and sun now out. Still a bit overcast when I went out at 0730 and not very warm. Mebbe it is old age but I seem to feel the cold more now and have bikesters on rather than shorts in the early morning. I used to wear shorts all the time from about May until end of October but now in longs most of the time. It is nice when the toots of the car and van horns mean good morning rather than f off and most wave as well. Not that it stops them hammering round blind corners, particularly as this morning the grass verges are getting cut and most have been held up on the way to work.
My grass is still too wet to cut but it should dry out in an hour or so.
Calmac have reverted to the old system of payment by phone direct to the local office rather than some remote automated system which I could never get to work with the small buttons on a phone. Could not get the sailing times I wanted as everything seems to be booked weeks in advance by touroid. Those who live here are of no importance it seems.

Do you actually live on Mull ??
I always thought you were in Oban.

 

[Dave7]

I have returned from an 11 mile Dampish bimble. Very humid and muggy here. Loads of traffic as well especially caravans and motor homes. Looks like we are in for a busy weekend.

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Those caravans must be tiny. I can't see them in your photos

 

[Dirk]

BTW.......
Is it a Scone as in scon
OR
Scone as in scone ?
We both agree on scon.

Scone as in bone.
Only the pretentious and dyslexic call it a scon.

 

[Dave7]

Scone as in bone.
Only the pretentious and dyslexic call it a scon.

Thats me bro
But I am NOT lysdexic

 

[Dirk]

Thats me bro
But I am NOT lysdexic

PS. Don't even mention to a Cornishman that the pasty was actually invented in Devon.......

 

[oldwheels]

Do you actually live on Mull ??
I always thought you were in Oban.

I have lived in Tobermory since 1972 and my name is already on a gravestone here so here I will remain in due course alongside my wife who died nearly 5 years ago. However in normal times I did spent a lot of time about 6 miles from Oban where my son lives as it gives me easy access to the long distance cycle path and some other quiet roads. I suppose you could say I have kind of dual residence.

 

[welsh dragon]

Those caravans must be tiny. I can't see them in your photos

numpty.

 

[oldwheels]

I have lived in Tobermory since 1972 and my name is already on a gravestone here so here I will remain in due course alongside my wife who died nearly 5 years ago. However in normal times I did spent a lot of time about 6 miles from Oban where my son lives as it gives me easy access to the long distance cycle path and some other quiet roads. I suppose you could say I have kind of dual residence.

I should perhaps add that Mull during lockdown was something like it was when we came here to work. The logistical problems were immense from my point of view but it was a real community in those days and not overrun by settlers or tourists as it is now.

 

[Dave7]

I have lived in Tobermory since 1972 and my name is already on a gravestone here so here I will remain in due course alongside my wife who died nearly 5 years ago. However in normal times I did spent a lot of time about 6 miles from Oban where my son lives as it gives me easy access to the long distance cycle path and some other quiet roads. I suppose you could say I have kind of dual residence.

Nice.
Not the dying part
We spent a week near Mull and had a good bird watching tour on it......memorable.
I enjoyed a good diving holiday off Oban.

 

[oldwheels]

Nice.
Not the dying part
We spent a week near Mull and had a good bird watching tour on it......memorable.
I enjoyed a good diving holiday off Oban.

I used to do quite a bit of diving but a lot was for scallops as well as scenic dives.
There is a bit a misconception in a lot of minds that we are all yokels and have never been anywhere and know little of the outside world. { I do not include you in this category } I was once asked seriously by a tourist if I had ever seen a train or a double decker bus.
In fact we and many island residents travel or have travelled widely. My wife and myself did continental cycle touring before the kids were born and later we covered most of the UK on business as well as visiting family in Germany and Denmark.
Unfortunately Mull has become just a theme park and no longer a real working community.

 

[numbnuts]

Morning all, highlight of the day watching electrician change smoke alarm and hearing it working, if it gets any more exciting...........

Still waiting

 

[Paulus]

@welsh dragon @Drago @Paulus
I have you disagree with you on that. What about........
Gone
Shone
I rest my case

Dome, not Dom
Home, not Hom
Bone, not Bon

We could start a new game with this