The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

Got up this morning and, as usual at the moment, put on the recording of the Vuelta highlights from ITV
I was up to stage 9 started watching - it was darts
...
The Tim Berners-Lee guy seems clever - maybe he could thing something up - maybe something that allows different computer to talk to each other - someone might find other uses for it as well

And if he did, maybe he could invent something like ITV Hub and put the Vuelta highlights on there...?

I got caught out by the same TV highlights problem. They are supposed to broadcast codes before and after programmes to indicate when they start and finish, even if they are not running at the right times. That system usually works, but sometimes doesn't. I think that somebody forgets to press the right button! Film4 is very bad for it - if I record a late night film from Film 4, a 90 minute movie often starts recording properly but ends up continuing to record for an extra 2 or 3 hours.

 

[ColinJ]

Chips were good, fish was a bit disappointing, I must admit - but .... hey ho.....we ain't getting out for another month, are we?

I wouldn't worry about it... you've managed to cram about 5 years worth of pub lunches into the past month or so!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

And if he did, maybe he could invent something like ITV Hub and put the Vuelta highlights on there...?

I got caught out by the same TV highlights problem. They are supposed to broadcast codes before and after programmes to indicate when they start and finish, even if they are not running at the right times. That system usually works, but sometimes doesn't. I think that somebody forgets to press the right button! Film4 is very bad for it - if I record a late night film from Film 4, a 90 minute movie often starts recording properly but ends up continuing to record for an extra 2 or 3 hours.

At the moment the ITV hub is letting people watch the highlights program before its been broadcast, though thats not working on my desktop with the Firefox browser.

 

[ColinJ]

At the moment the ITV hub is letting people watch the highlights program before its been broadcast, though thats not working on my desktop with the Firefox browser.

I heard Gary Imlach talking about it t'other night. He said that it would be available before the late TV broadcast, but it might not be until about 8:30 pm-ish?

 

[Dirk]

I wouldn't worry about it... you've managed to cram about 5 years worth of pub lunches into the past month or so!

One does ones best to support local businesses.

 

[Dave7]

Pint was good.
Chips were good, fish was a bit disappointing, I must admit - but .... hey ho.....we ain't getting out for another month, are we?

I am only jealous Dirk.
Hopefully by the time lockdown has finished me and MrsD will be up to eating a pub meal

 

[Dirk]

I am only jealous Dirk.
Hopefully by the time lockdown has finished me and MrsD will be up to eating a pub meal

Just realised that I've spent over £120 in my locals since Sunday.
Still.......it's all gone to a good cause.

 

[screenman]

Just found out a couple of things I did not know, they have swapped the donkeys on Skeggie beach for camels and do you know what they have for lunch?

















30 minutes just like the donkeys did.

 

[Paulus]

Just found out a couple of things I did not know, they have swapped the donkeys on Skeggie beach for camels and do you know what they have for lunch?

















30 minutes just like the donkeys did.

 

[ColinJ]

Just realised that I've spent over £120 in my locals since Sunday.

Just realised that I've spent about £130 in my locals since Sunday...










... 2nd September, 2012!

 

[numbnuts]

Just realised that I've spent over £120 in my locals since Sunday.
Still.......it's all gone to a good cause.

I think I have a local, but never been in it mind

 

[screenman]

Not got a clue how much we have spent but none of it was in our locals.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

My calculation is easy, I have spent precisely £0 in any hospitality business since March !

 

[oldwheels]

I think the claymores are beginning to come out of the thatch and getting sharpened for holiday home owners and those letting accommodation to people from high risk areas.
Managed to get out on my trike without too much traffic today and had a nice run on my usual route.
Had an awkward moment tho' as I came round a blind right angle street corner and found myself in the middle of a funeral and I had no idea who had died as have not been down the street where such things are posted. Just had to continue but did not like to stop and ask who this was for.
Further up I met a girl who used to work for us out on her bike so stopped for a chat about the old cycle club days and the time she missed a turning and got lost in an off road time trial and fell into a flooded river and was swept downstream still clutching her bike. Timekeeper soon realised something was amiss when she did not appear and nobody had passed her on the trail and search parties eventually found her soaked and lost in an impenetrable forest. She had a habit of falling in any handy water somehow.
Mind you I used the word girl but now I think old woman would be more appropriate.
She also had no idea who had died but I later found out it was a local ancient who died aged 104.

 

[Dave7]

Just realised that I've spent over £120 in my locals since Sunday.
Still.......it's all gone to a good cause.

Dirk.
If you can afford it (which you obviously can) and you both enjoy it.... .then imo go for it