The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Are you doing a Drago and sitting there in your Y Fronts

I don't wear Y Fronts, I'm a boxer shorts man, I'm sat here in my dressing gown.

 

[Mo1959]

Good God.

Could be worse.....could be numbnuts

 

[PaulSB]

Bunch of chancers! It’s getting that you need to move nearly every year now. Bet if you phoned them up they would magically manage to reduce it a bit though. Often find they are cheaper on comparison sites too as they are tying to attract new business, then they think they can rip you off the following year.

I change virtually everything every year; breakdown cover, utilities, broadband, etc.

Only companies we've stayed with of late are Hastings Direct Building and Contents which is outstanding value for bikes and British Gas for boiler cover who have been excellent when needed.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I just watched a TV documentary about the immune system. Apparently one thing that can suppress immunity is getting less than 7 hours sleep a night and I tend to only get 5-6 hours! So despite it still being quite 'early', I have turned the TV off and am going to go to bed now (03:15). I'll try to get to sleep by 04:00. I will have my alarm set for 11:00 and see if I can actually sleep until then. (I will probably wake up way before that, but we'll see.)

I watched that too. Cold shower, bran flakes, exercise, sleep. Interesting to see how poor the supplements were, with Vitamin D being about the only recommended one.

 

[oldwheels]

Grey misty day with no wind and light rain. The Sound is blanketed in fog and viz is very poor.
Reminds me of once we were sailing south from Skye in practically zero viz. when the only guide we had was the eerie sound of Ardnamurchan Point foghorn. No sat nav or anything like it in those days, just dead reckoning but we turned into the Sound of Mull still blind and eventually the fog lifted enough to show we had got it right.
Some small cargo boats got into problems and had to call for assistance as the only navigation aid they had was a compass and an atlas. No charts. One expensive motor yacht only had an AA map.
There are idiots everywhere.

 

[Dave7]

Good morning all fellow retirees.
It's a cool 0 degrees outside and very frosty.
Pancakes with maple syrup, bananas, blueberries with whipped cream on top.for breakfast

The usual dog walking across the fields, dodging other people and the virus as we go.

Pick up of the roast dinners from the pub at 3, and the big Spurs game at 5.

The Serpent on the telly box this evening.

The day is sorted.

Spurs are playing Marine.
If you have never heard of them or don't know who they are....Spurs are a sh*te team from north London

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my facebook feed this morning

Tesco installed a medical machine that for £5 and a urine sample, would diagnose any condition. When my mate went with a sore elbow, the computer printout read "You have tennis elbow. Soak it in warm water and avoid heavy work for 2 weeks" Impressed,my mate wondered if he could fool the machine. He mixed tapwater with dog poo, urine samples from his wife and daughter, and then pleasured himself into the mixture. When he tipped it into the machine the next day, the printout read: 1. Ur tapwater is too hard. Use softener. 2.Ur dog has ringworm. Give it antibiotics. 3.Ur daughter is on cocaine. Get her to rehab. 4.Ur wife is Xpecting twins. Not urs. Get a lawyer. 5.If u keep playing with yourself, ur poorly elbow wont get better! Thank u for shopping at Tesco

 

[oldwheels]

I watched that too. Cold shower, bran flakes, exercise, sleep. Interesting to see how poor the supplements were, with Vitamin D being about the only recommended one.

In Scotland all the shielding group of ancients have been issued with a 3 month supply of Vitamin D tablets.

 

[Drago]

Ow. Just had an email from my car insurers. £243.41. I don't think so. I looked at quotes last week and can get it for as low as £117. Guess which one I will choose.

Christ, 243 is more than i pay for my group 43 Volvo! Surely it's about time you sold that Plymouth Roadrunner Superbird and got a sensible car?

 

[Dave7]

In Scotland all the shielding group of ancients have been issued with a 3 month supply of Vitamin D tablets.

Yes .....looked into that. At ONLY 73 I am not eligible

 

[Drago]

They'll discover next week thst high doses of Vit D causes impotence or sphicnter muscle failure or something.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I watched that too. Cold shower, bran flakes, exercise, sleep. Interesting to see how poor the supplements were, with Vitamin D being about the only recommended one.

I take vitamins d and K2.

 

[oldwheels]

Yes .....looked into that. At ONLY 73 I am not eligible

I am somewhat confused as to which group I fit into but registered to get text updates and I could get shopping done for me if requested. I was offered the Vitamin D so took it anyway.
Getting shopping done would not work. In the first lockdown I ordered stuff for delivery. While I understand that whoever is doing the shopping is doing it voluntarily and is shopping for a few people the quality was unacceptable. I did not complain but never used the service again.

 

[Mo1959]

I take vitamins d and K2.

Me too.

 

[Mo1959]

They'll discover next week thst high doses of Vit D causes impotence or sphicnter muscle failure or something.

Just when I’m running usually!