The Retirement Thread

[oldwheels]

Sunshine and heavy showers seem to be on today but mild at 4.5C at the back of the house.
Supposed to be getting a parcel delivered today by DPD. Aye right. They don't do Monday deliveries generally as that is a very early boat. If it does come it will be a strange driver as Menzies sacked all the ones that have been coming for a while and knew the area. New ones probably have lower wages and longer hours.
I notice the holiday house opposite seems to be occupied. Unless an essential worker this is illegal but probably only advisory. Anyone here has to come from a higher level area as we currently are the lowest in Scotland and probably coming from England.
Cold weather forecast to start tomorrow but not wet so may get out for a run even if my fingers freeze.

 

[rustybolts]

I see it's even wearing bloomers! Lol

I think she is a female , look at those alluring eyes and the lack of a Drago's "percy at the porcelain " bulge.

 

[GM]

Morning all... This came up on my FB a year ago today, seems to have flown past...

 

[Dave7]

Hello the house !!!
What a sleep.
Was in bed and zonked out before 21.30....... had my 06.30 pee, back to bed and slept till 08.30.
Promised rain has not arrived.
I have sat watching tv.........very rarely watch day time tv. Rip Off Britain was interesting, some of those scams are very scary.

 

[classic33]

There you go!
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"Teggie" or The Afanc.

 

[welsh dragon]

It has started to rain here. That's the forecast for the next few days.

 

[welsh dragon]

That time again. I have to drop Mr WD's prescripton off at the quacks. A month goes so fast these days.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning gentle folk,

The sun is shining so I'm heading out for a walk before the rain arrives. It looks like we have a few days of atrocious weather on the way. Mrs Tenkay will be mounting the turbo for a tour of Cheltenham. I was due to get my bloods done next week but as it's just a regular monitoring test I think it wise to give it a miss. I was due a telephone consultation with the specialist to discuss the results but there's really little point without any up to date results so I'll cancel that too.

We recently made a discovery about our "Smart" TV. Previously we would set our Humax box to record any program that we wanted to watch, that way we could Fast Forward through the ads if it was on a commercial channel. We stumbled upon the "My5" app on the TV and saw that it had the next episode of the Susan Calman campervan tour so decided to watch it there. We discovered that it automatically skipped all the adverts and jumped to the start of the next section. When we watched "The Last Leg" on "All 4" we noticed that it just showed a couple of ads before skipping to the next section. That's quite an improvement on having to fast forward the ads.
Update: back from my walk, 12K and two episodes of "Pilgrim" on Audible. The new school that is being constructed around the corner is coming along famously. It's odd that a piece of land that looks quite small when it is bare seems a lot larger once buildings start to go up.

Have a peaceful day folks.

 

[GM]

Just been for a walk / run with 🐶 over the park, all I can say is the going is soft.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Back from another little loop into Midlothian, 5 degrees and mostly sunny. Been using my Thorn Nomad fitted with studded Schwalbe Marathon Winters. Slow and not much fun but at least I don’t have to worry about ice.

 

[Mo1959]

I better try a walk I suppose. Not sure what the trail will be like now. Probably still bits of hard packed snow in places and mud in the sections that have melted so not sure what footwear to put on.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have very fine rain

 

[Mo1959]

We actually have a bit of sun!

Still no numbnuts or screenman?

 

[pawl]

First ride since 22 Dec Knackered Now for a cheese and ham toastie

 

[pawl]

It has started to rain here. That's the forecast for the next few days.

Forecast is the same here for the next few days ☔️☔️☔️