The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Road between Crieff and Perth shut due to flooding. I could hear the rain all night.

 

[BoldonLad]

Raining yet again here. Seriously thinking of looking on eBay for plans for an ark.

 

[Exlaser2]

Morning all . Am sat here drinking my first coffee of the day. Looking forward to the high point of my social calendar for the week . Going to the sailing club to check the site and also opening the sail lockers to check the mouse traps .
# living the dream 😂😂😂

Ps Wishing Mo and Dave r all the best with their respective trials and tribulations.

 

[welsh dragon]

A day for doing sod all yet again. We have a delivery of firewood coming this afternoon so that will give Mr WD somethng to do.

 

[pawl]

Raining yet again here. Seriously thinking of looking on eBay for plans for an ark.

Try IKEA or Amazon.They appear to sell everything.

 

[Mo1959]

Coffee finished. jigsaw time.

 

[welsh dragon]

Coffee finished. jigsaw time.

What an exciting life you have Mo
Nearly as exciting as mine.

 

[gavroche]

Greetings. Been up an hour ago. Molly walked, wood burner ready for lighting later, breakfast in the process of digesting now and waiting for everybody else to get up.
I think we are going to Asda in Bideford later and then get packing in readiness for going home tomorrow. My wife is staying here probably until April to keep our daughter company and I will be coming down again for the house move in a few weeks time.
In the meantime, I have the M.O.T, car insurance, VED ( 0 rated) at the end of the month and renewing cambelt and water pump to sort out as well as bills to be paid as not everything is paid by Direct Debit.
I believe one can't hire a car at the moment so I will have to take my son to Manchester airport on the 24th too.
Since our arrival in Devon on December 5th, I have clocked 2000 miles on my car. Good thing it is a diesel.
My wife had her Covid jab yesterday with no side effect so far.
That's it for now so stay safe everyone.

 

[welsh dragon]

The most exciting thing i have done over the last few days is managing to take my printer by surprise to print off my new certificate of insurance for my car.

 

[Paulus]

Greetings. Been up an hour ago. Molly walked, wood burner ready for lighting later, breakfast in the process of digesting now and waiting for everybody else to get up.
I think we are going to Asda in Bideford later and then get packing in readiness for going home tomorrow. My wife is staying here probably until April to keep our daughter company and I will be coming down again for the house move in a few weeks time.
In the meantime, I have the M.O.T, car insurance, VED ( 0 rated) at the end of the month and renewing cambelt and water pump to sort out as well as bills to be paid as not everything is paid by Direct Debit.
I believe one can't hire a car at the moment so I will have to take my son to Manchester airport on the 24th too.
Since our arrival in Devon on December 5th, I have clocked 2000 miles on my car. Good thing it is a diesel.
My wife had her Covid jab yesterday with no side effect so far.
That's it for now so stay safe everyone.

I think you can rent cars, companies around my way are renting.

 

[pawl]

Good morning people, shopping day today, I've also got to go across town later so someone can stick a needle in my arm.We're also starting to get my Good Lady's care package sorted, we don't need four visits a day and are going down to two, in a few weeks we're going to have start paying for it so need to get it sorted. The casualty in all this is my cycling, it looks like I'm going to have to take a break from it.

regarding home care costs It is 17 years since I worked for Social Services so things may have changed.

If a proportion of the care package is a nursing need requiring the attention of a qulifted nurse cost should be covered by NHS DhSS benefits Attendance Allowance Invalidity Allowance.Carers not subject to financial assessment Carers. Allowance You may be able to get a reduction in Council Tax.due to a room having to be used for an essential care need

I apologise if you have some our all of the above in place.and things may have changed since I was a practicing SW. If a sw was involved in the care assessment they should be able to advise on benefits.

I do apologise if this is already in place

Hope things improve for your good lady and your self

 

[Deleted member 1258]

regarding home care costs It is 17 years since I worked for Social Services so things may have changed.

If a proportion of the care package is a nursing need requiring the attention of a qulifted nurse cost should be covered by NHS DhSS benefits Attendance Allowance Invalidity Allowance.Carers not subject to financial assessment Carers. Allowance You may be able to get a reduction in Council Tax.due to a room having to be used for an essential care need

I apologise if you have some our all of the above in place.and things may have changed since I was a practicing SW. If a sw was involved in the care assessment they should be able to advise on benefits.

I do apologise if this is already in place

Hope things improve for your good lady and your self

Thank you, I don't pay council tax so thats sorted, I've got to sort out the rest when we start to pay.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Hello fellow retirees,
Sorry to read of all the trials and tribulations of some fellow forumites and hope that things work out well.
Just been for a jog, I passed a neighbour on my way out and mentioned that I had my Jab this afternoon. He told me that he had his on Monday at the same venue. Apparently they are working on a 20 minute turn around with disinfection between groups in a 20 minute slot. He said he was straight out the door with no need to wait around post jab, apparently that is just for the Pfizer vaccine.
I will either walk there or perhaps take my Brommie, decisions, decisions 😁

 

[Dave7]

Try IKEA or Amazon.They appear to sell everything.

Won't work. Noah got his from there and it only fitted 8 people

 

[Mo1959]

He said he was straight out the door with no need to wait around post jab, apparently that is just for the Pfizer vaccine.

Do they tell you which one you’re getting, or is it a case of whichever is available and if you have to wait you know it’s been the Pfizer one?