The Retirement Thread

[oldwheels]

If I want. To fuel up for a long cold winter ride . Whisk egg in bowl first ,then add oats milk and water , and then nuke , no time for stove top method although I agree it's better. I came up with this idea after our club coach said you need a combo of carbs and protein, and suggested following porridge with egg on toast.
Well I'm not a morning person ,so short cut required. Some time later I told her what I was doing, the look she gave, told me she wasn't going to copy my idea.

Once myself and a pal were overnighting in an empty barn and had little food but had scrambled eggs in the evening. We had no water to spare so left the pan unwashed and used it to make porridge next morning. It was horrible and we could not eat it.

 

[gavroche]

Morning all

Off to Ilfracombe this morning for a bit of shopping at LIDL.
Will take doggie with us and give her a walk around Bicclescombe park on the way back.
Had some pretty high tides over the past couple of days, along with high winds, so a lot of the coast is on flood alert.
It was pretty high at Westward Ho! on the other side of the bay the other night.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-town-battered-waves-dramatic-4703884

There is a hell of a steep hill when you drive out of Westward Ho and every time I think: There is no way I could ride that one and I have no wish to even try it.

 

[Dave7]

Once myself and a pal were overnighting in an empty barn and had little food but had scrambled eggs in the evening. We had no water to spare so left the pan unwashed and used it to make porridge next morning. It was horrible and we could not eat it.

I slept in a barn once, aged 16, during a weeks tour around north wales. I will never forget how cold it was.

 

[Paulus]

I slept in a barn once, aged 16, during a weeks tour around north wales. I will never forget how cold it was.

I had a mate in West London, several times I missed the last train from Kew station and slept in the waiting room overnight. In the winter the station staff used to make the fire up. It was warm, if a little uncomfortable.

 

[Dave7]

I had a mate in West London, several times I missed the last train from Kew station and slept in the waiting room overnight. In the winter the station staff used to make the fire up. It was warm, if a little uncomfortable.

To digress .......
Many years ago, on a night out in Liverpool I got completely bladdered.
The lads I was with got me on the last train (they all went by ferry).
They asked 2 girls to make sure I got off at the right station.
I woke up at 0400 in the railway sidings at Hoylake about 6 miles from where I lived. .
So.......I started staggering home, only to meet up with another drunk going the same way......so we staggered off together.
Amazingly (and it wouldn't happen now) a car pulled up and some guy gave us both a lift.
I still recall next day's hangover

 

[Deleted member 1258]

There is a hell of a steep hill when you drive out of Westward Ho and every time I think: There is no way I could ride that one and I have no wish to even try it.

We had a Holiday in Westward Ho about 40 years ago, we went back and visited the place some years later and didn't recognize it, the caravan park we had stayed at the first time was a housing estate.

 

[Dirk]

I slept in a barn once, aged 16, during a weeks tour around north wales. I will never forget how cold it was.

I slept on a concrete floor of my mates rented council garage, out the back of his house, on a very cold January night when I was 18.
No sleeping bag and only wearing jeans, sweater and my motorcycle leather jacket and boots. Coldest I've ever been.......and that includes winter camping on my motorcycle at -12°F when my small bottle of washing up liquid and a tin of spuds in brine froze solid!

 

[Dirk]

There is a hell of a steep hill when you drive out of Westward Ho and every time I think: There is no way I could ride that one and I have no wish to even try it.

Been up it a few times. It's not as bad as it looks.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have returned from the Metropolis. I only go shopping once a month thank god. Couldn't do that every week.

Gone cold here and the wind is getting.yp as well. Not nice at all.

I am stuffing my face with a chicken and bacon sandwich from Morrisons and o have coffee as well.

 

[oldwheels]

I slept in a barn once, aged 16, during a weeks tour around north wales. I will never forget how cold it was.

We toured quite a lot of Scotland but being still at school we did not have a lot of money so slept where we could. We sometimes used SYHA hostels but not often. I could write a book about our adventures. We did not even have sleeping bags and used cycle capes. The important thing was to have a supply of dry firewood to keep a fire going all night. We used coal once in a road workers caravan near Portree with a stove. On that occasion when we went to get food in Portree everything was shut bar a baker with some cakes. It was a "Fast Day" holiday on a Thursday.

 

[gavroche]

I am having a cup of coffee now and working up the enthusiasm to go for a quick ride in windy conditions but no rain.

 

[welsh dragon]

I am having a cup of coffee now and working up the enthusiasm to go for a quick ride in windy conditions but no rain.

Good luck with that

 

[oldwheels]

Forecast for here is not good and getting worse for a couple of days. However once I got my chores done it did not look too bad so got the cycle gear out and a torrential shower came on. This passed over so I went out anyway and got a shortish run and just got back to cover when rain started again. Raw northerly wind and my fingers were getting a bit cold but more for exercise than pleasure. A low sun between the showers is also a bit dodgy as cars very often just keep going as fast even it they cannot see.
To touch on the porridge theme again. When I worked on farms we had porridge as a kind of starter before breakfast and dinner [posh people now call it lunch]. The patriarch of the family who was over 70 told us that when he started they had porridge 3 times a day. I suppose it filled us up before the main part of the meal as we ate prodigious amounts of food because we were doing hard physical labour a lot of the time.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I slept on a concrete floor of my mates rented council garage, out the back of his house, on a very cold January night when I was 18.
No sleeping bag and only wearing jeans, sweater and my motorcycle leather jacket and boots. Coldest I've ever been.......and that includes winter camping on my motorcycle at -12°F when my small bottle of washing up liquid and a tin of spuds in brine froze solid!

I slept on the concrete floor of the green keepers hut in a park in Chorley, it was a tad uncomfortable...

 

[dickyknees]

I am having a cup of coffee now and working up the enthusiasm to go for a quick ride in windy conditions but no rain.

Good luck with that

We are just back from the weekly shop and it is now raining.