The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Head up past Gibson Mill, the remains of the old viaduct. There's been some success there in the past, gold wise.

Blake Dean...

The line round the edge of the opposite hillside is where the old railway line went. For those of you interested in local history, read this article - Dawson City.

I'll give metal detecting a miss... I get obsessed just watching the gold hunters doing it. I'd probably spend the rest of my life unearthing Coke can ring-pulls, and rusty nails!

Thinking about trying to drop 0.9kg which would be below my fighting weight. Every gram less to haul up a hill is good news!!!!

True, but probably not if the 0.9 kg loss were muscle rather than fat!

Maybe Devon is not actually on this planet and you really are living in a different reality

I just took a call from my very happy sister. She had been toying with taking early retirement but was worried about the financial hit if she did. Now she has been made redundant so she is thousands of pounds better off and is busy moving her stuff down to her new cottage in Devon. It will be a lockdown (?) Devon Christmas and a very different reality for her and her kids!

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Edinburgh Level 3, as expected, and not much different to what we are currently under. But a possibility that we might get dropped down to level 2 quite soon, which would allow travel out of the area. Fingers crossed. Not that we have any imminent travel plans but it would be nice to have the option.

 

[Dirk]

Maybe Devon is not actually on this planet and you really are living in a different reality

It certainly does feel that way sometimes.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We've been over to the Plant Centre at Earlswood for lunch, now time for a cuppa and a slice of cake.

 

[The Rover]

I've been glancing over my shoulder! 😆

I was similar. Ian called. I wasn't overwhelmed with his description but said I'd go down. He said it was white which doesn't work for me. Anyway I read the reviews, gauged reaction on here when I dropped it in to posts and also know Genesis are highly regarded.

The reviews are excellent.

The Tifossi was always a leap of faith for me. I wasn't convinced but I do believe in what Ian tells me.

Now the Genesis! WOW. The moment I saw her . I only ever buy black or grey but this creamy grey and teal colour scheme is beautiful.

Bigger pluses are better mudguard mounts, internal cabling, third bottle position, sloping down tube and rear drop out is traditional - I've found through axles difficult to insert in the pouring rain by the road.

Excited.

I forgot to mention, the name of the colour on the bike box was “ Vladimir Bluetin”!

 

[PaulSB]

I forgot to mention, the name of the colour on the bike box was “ Vladimir Bluetin”!

Well mine is from Taiwan. Clearly yours will speak Russian.

 

[oldwheels]

Knackered. A bit sad when the highlight of my week is two trips to hospital consultants. It appears my last liver scan showed gallstones but he is not disposed to recommend removing the gall bladder yet. More excitement to look forward to, or not.
Had a near miss in the dark this morning going down to the ferry. A hind I think suddenly jumped out of a ditch but fortunately hesitated before crossing the road.
Still tourists pouring in as an average of 6 or more motorhomes per boat which means at least 20 per day but not so many on the outgoing boats. They were all agog when an ambulance pulled in at Oban and a paramedic got out and sprinted for the terminal. He had no jacket and it was raining. A normal patient transfer run but they all assumed the worst and got their phones out to take photographs.
I sit up in the observation lounge which was pretty much filled to reasonable capacity. One berk with no mask sneezed copiously with no attempt to cover his mouth and nose. By dress and luggage a tourist.
Weather in Oban wet but not too bad but when I got off the boat at Craignure the heavens opened and it poured down and judging but the standing water on the road it had been doing that for some time.
I managed to get off fairly promptly and managed to get past the road nuisances {aka tourists} and got behind a couple of local cars so a fast run up the road for a change.

 

[oldwheels]

Could not resist taking a pic while coming home today.

 

[Mo1959]

Oh no, I see that missing hill runner has been found dead

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I'll give metal detecting a miss... I get obsessed just watching the gold hunters doing it. I'd probably spend the rest of my life unearthing Coke can ring-pulls, and rusty nails!

What?!

I swear I just saw @Rusty Nails make a post in NACA!

 

[Dave7]

Oh no, I see that missing hill runner has been found dead

Tragic Mo.
I do question fell/hill running on his own in this weather. Could be any cause but it was the first thought that came to mind this morning.

 

[Rusty Nails]

What?!

I swear I just saw @Rusty Nails make a post in NACA!

I know things are getting me down at the moment but I hope I've got a while left before I'm ready to be buried.

Some years ago a person from my city, with the same name, age, marital status and number of kids as me was reported in the local paper as having died. I had to answer a few calls from old friends or colleagues who were ringing my wife to pay their respects and asking what had happened.

I'd have loved to see their faces when I answered.

 

[classic33]

Blake Dean...

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The line round the edge of the opposite hillside is where the old railway line went. For those of you interested in local history, read this article - Dawson City.

I'll give metal detecting a miss... I get obsessed just watching the gold hunters doing it. I'd probably spend the rest of my life unearthing Coke can ring-pulls, and rusty nails!

I did mean gold panning, in the river. T'was done whilst Dawson City was there, and it featured on a TV programme some years ago. A woman in mid-river, at an unnamed spot.

Hard to imagine that the locomotives used on that railway were brought up from Hebden Bridge, on wagons pulled by horses. The same road still in use today.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I know things are getting me down at the moment but I hope I've got a while left before I'm ready to be buried.

Some years ago a person from my city, with the same name, age, marital status and number of kids as me was reported in the local paper as having died. I had to answer a few calls from old friends or colleagues who were ringing my wife to pay their respects and asking what had happened.

I'd have loved to see their faces when I answered.

I'd picked up that you were feeling down somewhere else on the forum - sorry to hear that and I hope things improve for you asap.

This might make you chuckle on a similar theme to your post:

Back in '92 my dear old mum was in a hospice in Dartford, Kent with not too long left to live and we were expecting 'the call' at any time.

Her christian name was Maisie.

One morning I was in a meeting at Welwyn Garden City when one of the secretaries came in and passed me a little note with 'sorry, but we have just been informed your mum has died' written on it.

So I contacted Lovely Wife who was actually Lovely Girlfriend then and arranged to meet her at the Hospice.

A rapid whizz down the A1M and round the M25 and an hour later I met her at the hospice.

In we went and headed for the office which was just beyond the ward in which my mum was - we looked and couldn't believe that they had left her dead in bed on the ward.

And then... she, somewhat blearily, looked up and waved at us.

Apparently the lady who had been in the now vacant bed next to her was called May and it was she that had died.

A bit of a mix-up if ever there was one.

I only wish that my mum was 'with it' and not 'away with the fairies' on Dyhydrocodeine as she would've laughed and laughed as that would've appealed to her sense of humour.

We then spent ages consoling the young nurse who had made the cock-up and who was in bits worrying about how we would react and was she going to lose her job etc.

We eventually cheered her up and assured her we were not going to take it further.

***

I got the real call about a week later.

It's an amusing story from a difficult period in my life and it still makes me grin.

 

[Dave7]

What happened .
I closed my eyes for 5 minutes and have just woke up 1 hour 40 minutes later.
Strangely I still feel ready for bed.