The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Oh yes....pick those bits off first and enjoy

Always

 

[pawl]

Will it be a Shepherd's Pie with a pastry "lid" on it? otherwise some would say that it's not a Shepherd's Pie it's a shepherd's tart...

Think I might have met here sometime in my past.

 

[ColinJ]

Ooh, I just came so close to REALLY annoying myself!

It was my birthday last week and I was sent a £30 Amazon voucher so I popped over to the Amazon site, selected my choice of goodies, and went to complete the order. I must have had a complete brain f*rt because I forgot to apply the voucher code... My index finger came within 2 mm of clicking the left mouse button to settle the bill using my debit card! I just stopped myself!

I ordered the Times guide to solving cryptic crosswords, Volume 1 of the Times collection of quick cryptics, and Volume 1 of the Times collection of [in my case, HORRIBLY SLOW!] standard cryptics. I'm always running out of ballpoint pens and ending up with cheap/nasty ones so I ordered a 10-pack of classic BICs to use on my crosswords, and spent the remainder of the voucher on a spare chain for my singlespeed bike.

I checked some of the quick cryptic clues shown on the Amazon sales page and they look to be the kind of difficulty that I can already cope with. Hopefully, the guidebook will get me up to @PaulSB's lofty cryptic crossword standard before too long!

 

[welsh dragon]

Ooh, I just came so close to REALLY annoying myself!

It was my birthday last week and I was sent a £30 Amazon voucher so I popped over to the Amazon site, selected my choice of goodies, and went to complete the order. I must have had a complete brain f*rt because I forgot to apply the voucher code... My index finger came within 2 mm of clicking the left mouse button to settle the bill using my debit card! I just stopped myself!

I ordered the Times guide to solving cryptic crosswords, Volume 1 of the Times collection of quick cryptics, and Volume 1 of the Times collection of [in my case, HORRIBLY SLOW!] standard cryptics. I'm always running out of ballpoint pens and ending up with cheap/nasty ones so I ordered a 10-pack of classic BICs to use on my crosswords, and spent the remainder of the voucher on a spare chain for my singlespeed bike.

I checked some of the quick cryptic clues shown on the Amazon sales page and they look to be the kind of difficulty that I can already cope with. Hopefully, the guidebook will get me up to @PaulSB's lofty cryptic crossword standard before too long!

Happy Birthday for last week.

 

[ColinJ]

Happy Birthday for last week.

Thanks. It would have been even happier if the government hadn't raised the pension age! I am now the ripe old age of 65 (how the heck did THAT happen so quickly! ) but I have to wait another year for mine.

I have a state pension countdown running on the blackboard in my kitchen. It was on 80 weeks to go when I started, but only 51-odd now.

 

[welsh dragon]

Thanks. It would have been even happier if the government hadn't raised the pension age! I am now the ripe old age of 65 (how the heck did THAT happen so quickly! ) but I have to wait another year for mine.

I have a state pension countdown running on the blackboard in my kitchen. It was on 80 weeks to go when I started, but only 51-odd now.

I know how you feel. My 65th birthday is March so 12 months more for me, well 6 bloody years more in fact

 

[GM]

This is the remainder of our Shepherds pie, 3 of us couldn't quite manage all of it....

 

[classic33]

Back from another walk in the snow, took in a couple of the tops today, Allermuir and Capelaw. Nice and quiet.
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Who's doing the jig on slope below?

 

[classic33]

Sounds nice.
A tad pedantic but to my (very limited knowledge)...........
Cottage pie is beef
Shepherds pie is lamb
Feel free to tell me to bog off but I am saving you a visit from CLASSIC

You called...

 

[classic33]

Forget all the stuff about meat dishes (which I don't eat)... What was THIS all about?

If someone has been trying to steal from your account, why did they only take 22p?

Test amount?
Used to be just a penny, now usually 25p.

Another card in circulation.

 

[Juan Kog]

Thanks. It would have been even happier if the government hadn't raised the pension age! I am now the ripe old age of 65 (how the heck did THAT happen so quickly! ) but I have to wait another year for mine.

I have a state pension countdown running on the blackboard in my kitchen. It was on 80 weeks to go when I started, but only 51-odd now.

I didn’t have to wait the full extra year for my state pension because my birthday was just after the cut off date for the age change (December 1953 ) so I was 65 and 5 months. So money from the Government no more national insurance to pay and a bus pass.

 

[classic33]

This is the remainder of our Shepherds pie, 3 of us couldn't quite manage all of it....

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Wasting food there.

 

[Mo1959]

Wasting food there.

It’ll be ok tomorrow.

 

[classic33]

It’ll be ok tomorrow.

It'll have gone cold!

Reheating in the same dish will result in a burnt in dish. Reheating in another, smaller, dish will result in extra washing up.

 

[Mo1959]

It'll have gone cold!

Reheating in the same dish will result in a burnt in dish. Reheating in another, smaller, dish will result in extra washing up.

Ahh.....I never leave food so don’t understand these problems!