The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Yes very much so, a great place to visit and with a great tea room. They’ve recently handed over to their staff...
https://www.insider.co.uk/news/former-beechgrove-host-transfers-ownership-17143447

Thanks for this. This is fantastic news. I always found Dougal and Lesley very, very decent people.

As an Englishman selling English grown plants to them was damned hard work. Partly because of their extremely high standards but also because of their loyalty to Scottish suppliers. Eventually we lost the business to a very good grower based near Perth. Our quality was pretty much the same but he had the edge of faster delivery and being grown in Scotland. Couldn't bear that!!

 

[12boy]

Happy birthday, Dirk. Another windy day with 21C. Think I will give the bikes a rest and concentrate on filing in my anti-tree root trench. Perhaps a resolution to our political hugger mugger will present itself insofar as the election will finally be over. I grow vegetables and ride a bike so maybe Yorkshire it is. Having lived in high desert for the last 60 years getting used to rain would be interesting. Wind we got. I hope your vision gets sorted out, Dave 7.
Hasta luego.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My state pension is paid weekly.
MrsDs is paid every 4 weeks..can't recall why, don't know if one is better than t'other.

My state pension is paid every four weeks, my works pension every month, my pension credit is paid weekly. I first drew my state pension about four years ago.

 

[Dave7]

Winter duvet is on. I woke up cold at 0300 this morning.
It put up a good fight but I taught the b*stard a lesson 🙂

 

[screenman]

I have been out for an hour off road on the bike, it was brilliant.

 

[BoldonLad]

My state pension is paid weekly.
MrsDs is paid every 4 weeks..can't recall why, don't know if one is better than t'other.

I don't know if it is still the case, but, when I started to receive state pension (8 years ago, age 65), you had the choice of being paid weekly or four weekly. As far as I can see there is no financial advantage either way. I was used to operating monthly, so, I chose 4 weekly payments. This means I get 13 payments per year, so, one month, there are two payments, over the years, the "double" payment month changes. You are not actually getting any extra, but, it feels like you are getting a bonus once per year.

 

[numbnuts]

I've done sod all today that was brilliant too

 

[ColinJ]

Nothing has changed overnight - America still has not announced whether they've chosen the nutter or the dementia patient as their leader.

I'm sure that someone on the news suggested that if he won, Trump might try for a 3rd term. I remembered reading that the 22nd amendment to the US constitution limits presidents to 2 x 4 year terms. I hope that doesn't mean that the orange one intends to repeal the amendment, given the chance!

Don't forget to apply for your Bus Pass. When I first used mine I was hoping the driver would challenge me "sir you look too young to have a pensioners pass" .It didn't happen .☹

I had someone query me having a Senior Railcard! I was 61 or 62 at the time and they are for the over-60s, so I felt pretty chuffed...

" If you want to shop in W. why did you come here in the first place." is the only repeatable comment. No doubt they will leave soon complaining that everybody hates them.

Like the people who buy properties near farms and then moan about rural life...

Official top speed to date, 57mph(Downhill).

Mine is 47mph - I'm never doing that again. It was on a day training session to teach climbing technique and safe descending!!! It was safe, I was in full control but scared myself half to death.

56 mph (90 kph) for me. It nearly ended in tears. Or worse...

(#1) When riding a bicycle down a steep hill on the outskirts of Burnley, do not become obsessed with hitting 60 mph.

(#2) If you ignore #1 and you get your chin down on your handlebar stem to reduce drag, do not become hypnotised by the reading on your bike computer as it rises to 50... 51... 52... 53... 54... 55 mph!

(#3) If you also ignore #2, be sure to use a gum shield so that when you reach 56 mph, hit a raised manhole cover, take off, fly through the air for 50 yards, land hard, bounce, take off again, land hard again, slew across the road and almost drop the bike in front of oncoming traffic... you don't bite the end of your tongue off !

@ColinJ, how did things feel this morning?
At approximately 04:26:16.7?

The clocks have gone back! Shouldn't that be 03:26:16.7?

I was wandering about the house at that time, half-asleep. I don't recall feeling the earth move beneath me!

 

[classic33]

I'm sure that someone on the news suggested that if he won, Trump might try for a 3rd term. I remembered reading that the 22nd amendment to the US constitution limits presidents to 2 x 4 year terms. I hope that doesn't mean that the orange one intends to repeal the amendment, given the chance!


I had someone query me having a Senior Railcard! I was 61 or 62 at the time and they are for the over-60s, so I felt pretty chuffed...


Like the people who buy properties near farms and then moan about rural life...

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56 mph (90 kph) for me. It nearly ended in tears. Or worse...



The clocks have gone back! Shouldn't that be 03:26:16.7?

I was wandering about the house at that time, half-asleep. I don't recall feeling the earth move beneath me!

It was only a minor one. A major one in Tod, at 06:52:15.7 UTC, on the 7th March 1972 was preceded by smaller ones.

And you're right, it should.

 

[numbnuts]

I've done sod all today that was brilliant too

I felt guilty not doing anything so just got back from a 3 mile walk

 

[ColinJ]

It was only a minor one. A major one in Tod, at 06:52:15.7 UTC, on the 7th March 1972 was preceded by smaller ones.

And you're right, it should.

In the past, I experienced one earthquake in Salford and one in Hebden Bridge.

I was asleep in bed in my flat in Salford when the 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake occurred. My head suddenly whacked against the headboard of the bed, which woke me up rather sharpish. Oo-er, everything is moving!

A similar thing for the second quake, but that one was late at night. I think I had dozed off on the sofa, and my head whacked against the wall behind. I can't remember what date that one was. It might have been the 2002 Midlands quake?

 

[numbnuts]

I've just heard the first bang of the evening

 

[gavroche]

I got a phone call from an agency this morning offering me a French teaching job for a few weeks. The money was good but I politely declined as I don't want to be exposed to kids being possible carriers of Covid. To be honest, I don't want to teach anymore with all the hassle that comes with it.
Money isn't everything.

 

[rustybolts]

So, stand in a cold shower for 60 seconds each day.

60 seconds isint enough I heard on the radio from an expert yesterday , he said you need to stand for um.. ...... he said uh.... he said you need... duh ! ... please lead me away

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I got a phone call from an agency this morning offering me a French teaching job for a few weeks. The money was good but I politely declined as I don't want to be exposed to kids being possible carriers of Covid. To be honest, I don't want to teach anymore with all the hassle that comes with it.
Money isn't everything.

I know the feeling - used to teach in North Wales as well!!

I was just about to start looking for a job (probably IT Tech) in a school when all this started
Haven't bothered in case I bring something back and give to to my wife