The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

I'll see if it gets better or worse if I leave it alone.

I woke up today feeling perfectly ok except for being very tired (which is usual for me these days)... how very strange!

Speaking of 'very strange'... I am going to sleep so late now and some of you are posting so early that I am reading your 'good morning' messages before dozing off. I can see the appeal of getting up early on a sunny summer morning but getting up 2 or 3 hours before sunrise when it is cold, wet and windy and you don't have to go to work... ARE YOU ALL MAD!!!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Well that turned out to be an absolutely glorious morning, sunshine, autumn colours, warm (15 degrees !), a favourite route and a tailwind home, just wished I’d stayed out for longer !

 

[Paulus]

I've been out on the bike briefly and got quite damp.
I am now watching the Giro on the telly box in the front room and drinking a bottle or 3 of Timothy Taylor's Landlord.

 

[Mo1959]

Well that turned out to be an absolutely glorious morning, sunshine, autumn colours, warm (15 degrees !), a favourite route and a tailwind home, just wished I’d stayed out for longer !

What a difference a few miles makes....still raining and very overcast here.

 

[Dave7]

Daughter and SiL came around.
By the eck when MrsD decided to be sick she did a good job on it
I ended up buying new pillows, new pillow protectors and a new mattress ptotector*
*TBF they were all getting to the end of useful lives.
Daughter helped MrsD to have a strip wash (and hair wash as she couldn't manage the shower). Meanwhile I stripped the bed and put everything possible in the wash. 3 loads done......just one more load to dry and a few bits to wash.
Good news is she managed to eat 1/3rd tin of rice pud and a special protein drink. She is not as grey as she was 2 hours ago.
BTW.. .. thank you for all your good wishes as they really do help.

 

[welsh dragon]

It's raining here and my washing is now in the tumble dryer

 

[Dave7]

It's raining here and my washing is now in the tumble dryer

You like to hang it out when possible don't you.
MrsD (like a lot her generation) liked to see a nice line of washing out.
And then we were plagued by big flocks of Starlings that seemed to think it was funny to eat loads of purple berries then poo over our clean washing .
In the end we gave up and everything goes in the tumble dryer now.

 

[welsh dragon]

You like to hang it out when possible don't you.
MrsD (like a lot her generation) liked to see a nice line of washing out.
And then we were plagued by big flocks of Starlings that seemed to think it was funny to eat loads of purple berries then poo over our clean washing .
In the end we gave up and everything goes in the tumble dryer now.

Yuck. I do prefer to have it hanging out . I prefer to put the washing out because it doesn't cost me anything to dry it. But at least I can get it dry in the dryer

 

[Paulus]

Yuck. I do prefer to have it hanging out . I prefer to put the washing out because it doesn't cost me anything to dry it. But at least I can get it dry in the dryer

It smells fresher when hung outside aswell.

 

[PaulSB]

It smells fresher when hung outside aswell.

Perhaps we could let @Drago know this?

 

[PaulSB]

So I picked a Netflix series to watch called "To The Lake." The summary says:

"As a contagious illness, panic and looting ravage Moscow........"

Possibly not the best choice?🤔 😂

 

[PaulSB]

I woke up today feeling perfectly ok except for being very tired (which is usual for me these days)... how very strange!

Speaking of 'very strange'... I am going to sleep so late now and some of you are posting so early that I am reading your 'good morning' messages before dozing off. I can see the appeal of getting up early on a sunny summer morning but getting up 2 or 3 hours before sunrise when it is cold, wet and windy and you don't have to go to work... ARE YOU ALL MAD!!!

I can promise you in my case it is absolutely not a lifestyle choice!!!!!!!

Went to bed at midnight, very late for me, and wide awake by 4.30 this morning

 

[Drago]

Still wetter than a boxing match between John Inman and Dale winton.

 

[screenman]

Brilliant sunshine, nice and warm and very little wind, just kidding.

 

[BoldonLad]

So far, we have escaped the rain, cloudy, with some sunshine, 16C.

Weekly supermarket visit, followed by cycling:

Did more of the Cyclechat ABC Street Names Challenge, ably assisted, or, was that supervised?, by Mrs @BoldonLad.

Only 8.29 miles, to collect "O" through "T".