The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

I've just had a text from our daughter in Leeds asking how I'm doing. She tells me that she had the Vaccine yesterday. A local GP Practice had spare slots and didn't want to waste the vaccine so they were asking NHS Staff. She says that her arm is a bit sore but other than that she feels fine. 😀
Looks like I'll still need to shield after I get my jab according to the email I received earlier.

"Patients with an immune compromised system will still need to shield even after receiving the vaccine, as the protection may not be as effective as in healthy individuals"

 

[oldwheels]

Devon and Cornwall are coming in for a bit of advertising recently. Julia Bradbury has a program on at the moment walking around those counties.

Hopefully it will influence all the staycationers to go there and make their life hell and leave us alone to get on with what is left of our lives in relative peace.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I've just had a text from our daughter in Leeds asking how I'm doing. She tells me that she had the Vaccine yesterday. A local GP Practice had spare slots and didn't want to waste the vaccine so they were asking NHS Staff. She says that her arm is a bit sore but other than that she feels fine. 😀
Looks like I'll still need to shield after I get my jab according to the email I received earlier.

"Patients with an immune compromised system will still need to shield even after receiving the vaccine, as the protection may not be as effective as in healthy individuals"

When I do get vaccinated I’m rather hoping that the microchip that Bill Gates has ensured is present in every dose will enable the filling in my tooth to pick up radio 4 when I’m near a 5G mast...

 

[oldwheels]

There’s a firm here doing glass bottle delivery again. Milk and orange juice. Much dearer than supermarkets though, but I suppose of you want to support local business and do a bit for the environment it’s a good thing.

Keeps you out of the supermarket tho' which surely must be a good thing. Besides it will probably be more local milk than supermarkets as well. Mind you having worked in dairy farms I have had things happen you would not want to know about.

 

[oldwheels]

That does seem expensive. I have told Elaine, our milk lady, she's too cheap. I think it should be 55-60p. I remember her apologising profusely to everyone in a letter for increasing it to 50p. We get a great service and 50p is very reasonable.

Our local dairy farm no longer does deliveries but I think you can get unpasteurised milk at the farm shop.
They make cheese and the residue goes to feed pigs.
I generally get milk from the coop which if they have any is about £1 per litre.

 

[Paulus]

Our local dairy farm no longer does deliveries but I think you can get unpasteurised milk at the farm shop.
They make cheese and the residue goes to feed pigs.
I generally get milk from the coop which if they have any is about £1 per litre.

Unpasteurised milk is delicious. A Vet we know in the countryside gets it from local farms as there is always an amount they can't sell. It's over the quota for their farm.(cows don't stop producing because of quotas). It's almost like cream on your cornflakes or in the porridge.

 

[oldwheels]

Day started fine but then we had a flurry of snow before sun came out again but roads and pavements still pretty icy. Pottered about in the garden for a while but then got started on setting up a new printer.
Should have been an easy job but the instructions were a bit opaque and often referred to a different printer. Dredged up quite a lot of swear words I had forgotten but got a partial result.
So far it will only print A5 size from my photo file and will not print documents from this file either so they have to come from Acrobat which has to be liked to Farcebook or Gargle.
So far will only print from IPad but not seriously tried anything else yet. If I can get it to print from the desktop on the Macbook it would be handy.
Nervous exhaustion set in so it can wait till tomorrow and try to print the bin collection timetable.
Calmac are sending texts that boat has broken down again and cancellations abound.
The local Ferry Committee have located a very suitable catamaran which is being built somewhere and is available soon so trying to persuade the Govt. to cough up the cash. They are well organised and good at publicity so may work.

 

[oldwheels]

Unpasteurised milk is delicious. A Vet we know in the countryside gets it from local farms as there is always an amount they can't sell. It's over the quota for their farm.(cows don't stop producing because of quotas). It's almost like cream on your cornflakes or in the porridge.

I would not buy unpasteurised from an unknown source but our Practice Nurse who drinks it is from the farm family so it seems a reasonable recommendation.

 

[Dave7]

Re local milk.
Many years ago ((40+) we were on holiday in Devon.....somewhere near Barnstaple. We called at a farm for a pint of milk.
The farmer said......and I use my best Devon accent......."I'll just go and milk e cow".
A short while later he brought us a bottle of warm milk, fresh from the cow
AND we are still here.

 

[BoldonLad]

When I do get vaccinated I’m rather hoping that the microchip that Bill Gates has ensured is present in every dose will enable the filling in my tooth to pick up radio 4 when I’m near a 5G mast...

No, it (the chip) will make you freeze, and go blue, you will have to be rebooted to continue

 

[Dirk]

Hopefully it will influence all the staycationers to go there and make their life hell and leave us alone to get on with what is left of our lives in relative peace.

Thank you. Love you too.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Re local milk.
Many years ago ((40+) we were on holiday in Devon.....somewhere near Barnstaple. We called at a farm for a pint of milk.
The farmer said......and I use my best Devon accent......."I'll just go and milk e cow".
A short while later he brought us a bottle of warm milk, fresh from the cow
AND we are still here.

What! You’re still at the farm near Barnstable 😮

 

[oldwheels]

Re local milk.
Many years ago ((40+) we were on holiday in Devon.....somewhere near Barnstaple. We called at a farm for a pint of milk.
The farmer said......and I use my best Devon accent......."I'll just go and milk e cow".
A short while later he brought us a bottle of warm milk, fresh from the cow
AND we are still here.

When I went and spent the summer on my grandparents croft we had milk straight from the cow and ate eggs raw sometimes direct from source. I was also good at getting rabbits so had plenty of those as well. Fish were more unreliable but sometimes got trout if the gamekeeper was not around.

 

[GM]

Day started fine but then we had a flurry of snow before sun came out again but roads and pavements still pretty icy. Pottered about in the garden for a while but then got started on setting up a new printer.
Should have been an easy job but the instructions were a bit opaque and often referred to a different printer. Dredged up quite a lot of swear words I had forgotten but got a partial result.
So far it will only print A5 size from my photo file and will not print documents from this file either so they have to come from Acrobat which has to be liked to Farcebook or Gargle.
So far will only print from IPad but not seriously tried anything else yet. If I can get it to print from the desktop on the Macbook it would be handy.
Nervous exhaustion set in so it can wait till tomorrow and try to print the bin collection timetable.
Calmac are sending texts that boat has broken down again and cancellations abound.
The local Ferry Committee have located a very suitable catamaran which is being built somewhere and is available soon so trying to persuade the Govt. to cough up the cash. They are well organised and good at publicity so may work.

I can guarantee every time I use our old printer that certain not nice words will be used, if there was an open window nearby I'm sure it would have been through it by now!

 

[Dave7]

What! You’re still at the farm near Barnstable 😮

No no no.....not still THERE we are still HERE.