The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

Still

Wait a minute it's stopped guys are swimming guys are sailing , I may be able to get a walk in today

 

[oldwheels]

Tell me more! Is "jag day" a bit like the geordies wandering around in the depths of winter in T shirts and shorts? Another question, if the ferry cannot land due to adverse weather, does your ticket count until it can land successfully?

On jag day I don't think many were as well prepared as myself and those who came on foot were well wrapped up so no visible signs of short sleeves. Some were done in their cars so must have been suitably dressed.
Regarding tickets. It depends on the kind of ticket but most are valid for a month. They may claim that you get a free cruise and are not due to get your tickets back but it I would need to have a long study of the small print in their terms and conditions. In the past I would just have called the Port Manager to find out but my contacts have either died or retired.
If weather dependent you get no compensation but if a technical issue you can get a refund. I have had sometimes to go to Oban via Corran Ferry. This is an 80 mile journey and most have the Corran fare to pay as well. With a Blue Badge I get free travel on this ferry. Fishnish ferry takes the Oban tickets but I have successfully claimed the extra fuel costs.

 

[Juan Kog]

A bit like the ones who built a house next to a farm and complained constantly about the noise the hens and cattle made. Common story.

There like the people who move into a flat above a fish and chip shop and then complain about the smell .

 

[oldwheels]

Because my Good Lady needed the commode when I first got up I used their machine, I've now been told I need to be trained on it.

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My house has 6 steps up to reach the path up to the door. With a wheelchair this was a bit of a pull although my wife was not that heavy . She was frightened tho' that the thing could tip forward and land her face down. The local health board were prepared to get an electrically powered step climbing machine for us and that certainly needed some training. I never used it in practice because she died just before delivery of it. Somebody got lucky because the next person needing one could get it immediately.

 

[Dirk]

There like the people who move into a flat above a fish and chip shop and then complain about the smell .

I remember someone buying a house 200yds from Mallory Park hairpin.......then getting the circuit closed due to the noise.

 

[Juan Kog]

I remember someone buying a house 200yds from Mallory Park hairpin.......then getting the circuit closed due to the noise.

Dirk you jogged my memory. When I was working as a train driver , one location had a sidings for stabling 2 trains overnight ,it had probably been there since the 1920’s . Then in 1980’s houses were built on adjoining land . Later a lady moved into one of the houses, she complained long and loudly to the council and the rail company about the noise of trains entering the sidings , the speed was reduced. The sound of the fitters testing and checking the trains That was retimed or moved elsewhere. Before these changes were implemented she challenged one of my colleagues as he walked out of the sidings ,about his speed when driving into the sidings. she said I want your name , his reply you can’t have it I’m using it myself.

 

[numbnuts]

Got me walk in with no

 

[gavroche]

Going home on Saturday as snow expected on Sunday.

 

[PaulSB]

Morning all


I think lockdown is getting to us all.
I shall be taking doggie to the beach this morning for a gentle walk. She's been limping a bit this week - nearside front - think she may have jarred her shoulder whilst running and leaping off the dunes on Sunday. She seems a lot better this morning, so a mooch amongst the crabs should do the trick.

Sounds more like a car than a dog.......

 

[PaulSB]

Yes, even being retired it’s still hard. The constant doom and gloom from social media/news/politicians and having to consider what restrictions will apply for nearly everything you want to do now. That plus putting up with more aches and pains the older I get and seeing my ability to do what I used to manage on top of a long range forecast that looks pretty awful up here, and it’s all starting to feel pretty depressing.

It is going to get better Mo. Lockdown last Spring we were really lucky to have great weather, certainly in Lancashire, now the days are getting a little lighter, there is some bird song, primroses and snowdrops are flowering, with luck it will be warmer and drier come early March. I know you're three weeks further north.

We getting vaccinated and in a few months we will find things safer and more normal. Perhaps never the same but better than today.

🤗🤗

 

[ColinJ]

My grandparents had a croft in Sutherland overlooking Loch Shin. When cycling I went to look at the house again. It had been massively extended but the steadings were tumbledown and the fields overgrown with rushes. While standing there a car appeared and a woman got out to open the gate and after the car went in closed it again. I made an attempt to speak to them but they refused to make eye contact and ignored me completely. I just did not exist.

A couple of miles away I was looking for an old church building but could see no sign of it since houses had been built there. There was somebody working in a garden so I asked if he had any idea what had been there before. “ I know nothing and care less” was the answer.
How do you expect locals to respond to people like that?
I can think of two places at least known as “ Little England”.

Those kind of stuck-up, ignorant people are the same everywhere.

I encountered a group out walking on the local hills here once. One clicked his fingers at me and indicated that I was to come to him. In a very arrogant voice he then barked out an order... "You - tell me the way to Hebden Bridge!"

I can't remember what my reply was, but I'm sure that it wouldn't have been "Yes, sir - just take that path, turn right at the end of it and continue along the canal towpath for 2 miles"!

You moved there to work and obviously have integrated well. Those who go to retire often do not mix with the local peasantry.

I used to go to the Costa Blanca every spring for a cycling holiday. A man who had been one of my dad's apprentices had retired there with his wife (they were sun worshippers). I met up with them a few times when I was there. He told me that most of the ex-pat Brits only spoke to other ex-pats, went to the chippie in Benidorm, or to the 'English pubs'! He and his wife OTOH had made an effort to get to know the locals. He insisted on ordering our drinks in the hotel bar in Spanish, even though the bar staff spoke good English, and they clearly appreciated that. He told me that he used to take his wife to a mountain village restaurant and had become a friend of the Spanish owners. He suffered gluten intolerance so the chef there used to cook him special meals, and gave him a sack of 'chickpea flour' as a gift on one visit. That's the way to do it!

Tell me more! Is "jag day" a bit like the geordies wandering around in the depths of winter in T shirts and shorts? Another question, if the ferry cannot land due to adverse weather, does your ticket count until it can land successfully?

I always thought that was a myth until I arrived in Newcastle on a freezing day one late November. Half the intoxicated pubgoers spilling out onto city centre streets were young men who had forgotten to dress the top half of their body. The young women had forgotten to dress the bottom half of theirs - instead of dresses, they all appeared to wearing 2-inch wide belts... Lots of bright red male chests, and bright red female legs!

 

[rustybolts]

There's some spiteful people around.

remove the p in spiteful and insert a h

 

[pawl]

I remember someone buying a house 200yds from Mallory Park hairpin.......then getting the circuit closed due to the noise.

I live a few miles from Mallory Park and When the winds in the right direction I can hear the sound of the racing I know a lot of people new to the village complained about the noise .Would have thought they would have employed a bit of common sense and checked the frequency of race and track days.We have had a lot of new houses built on the outskirts of the village common complaints are the smell of muck spreading cockerels crowing early mornings The sound of farm machinery on summer nights and sheep bleating.It’s the country side for gods sake.What do they expect when they buy a house on land adjacent to a working farm.

 

[BoldonLad]

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I always thought that was a myth until I arrived in Newcastle on a freezing day one late November. Half the intoxicated pubgoers spilling out onto city centre streets were young men who had forgotten to dress the top half of their body. The young women had forgotten to dress the bottom half of theirs - instead of dresses, they all appeared to wearing 2-inch wide belts... Lots of bright red male chests, and bright red female legs!

No myth... my youngest daughter has long since tired of my "aren't you going to put a dress on", or, "you need a vest on, it is freezing out there", comments.

The folly (or, it is joy) of youth.

 

[Dave7]

There like the people who move into a flat above a fish and chip shop and then complain about the smell .

Or buy a house next to an old church and complain about the bells on a Sunday morning.
There is a joke somewhere in there