The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

My daughter learnt the recipe for pancakes when she was at Primary School

She cam running out of school one pancake day yelling

EGGS
MILK
FLOUR
PANCAKE POWER

no idea how much of each

 

[pawl]

I never mention birthdays and do not regard them as of much importance other than a date on the calendar. it is no great achievement to reach old age as it is more a matter of luck and probably genes unless you have a particularly dissolute lifestyle which shortens lifespan.

I don’t particularly look forward to birthdays these days Another step towards the crem

Ive been a keen cyclist and hill Walker since I was 15 Distances and speed are much diminished but still enjoyable Very much in line with the words of the poem What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare

 

[gavroche]

All the best laid plans and all that ! Did all my jobs this morning, got bike out of the shed, got all my gear ready and now ...........


..........it is bloody raining !!
Got bike back in shed and put clothes away, checked forecast for the rest of the week and it isn't promising.
So back to doing my jigsaws on the internet.

 

[postman]

I have discovered a Harry Potter magic wand under our stairs.So I went out for my longest walk this year.I decided for some reason for take my very very old walking stick with me.The one with some fantastic badges on it.So there I am walking along swinging the stick some young people move over and give me more room.I try to cross the road where there is no crossing cars stop let me over.Come to a crossing and again cars stop,a bloke on the other side of the road with his stick waves at me.I might just take this out every time I go walking it has power.

 

[rustybolts]

I wish you all a good morning and a pleasant day .
Who would have thunk that on this day in 1947........
...........
........ @Dave7 was born
Yup 74 years old today.
They said I would amount to nothing yet here I am......a member of the Old Farts CC club

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dave

 

[oldwheels]

I don’t particularly look forward to birthdays these days Another step towards the crem

Ive been a keen cyclist and hill Walker since I was 15 Distances and speed are much diminished but still enjoyable Very much in line with the words of the poem What is this life if full of care we have no time to stand and stare

I agree. My name is already on a headstone waiting to be engraved with the date when I join my wife.
I do not go for speed nowadays although I do admit to a childish delight in flying downhill sometimes.
This is one reason [ apart from balance problems] I like my trike. I can stop and look at things easily and have a seat at the same time.

 

[oldwheels]

Should there be smoke?

Yes there is a coating of some kind from the manufacturing or perhaps put on as a protective layer. This is on the heating elements of most if not all electrical heating devices and burns off quickly when the appliance is first used.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I have discovered a Harry Potter magic wand under our stairs.So I went out for my longest walk this year.I decided for some reason for take my very very old walking stick with me.The one with some fantastic badges on it.So there I am walking along swinging the stick some young people move over and give me more room.I try to cross the road where there is no crossing cars stop let me over.Come to a crossing and again cars stop,a bloke on the other side of the road with his stick waves at me.I might just take this out every time I go walking it has power.

I quite fancy a sword stick like the one carried by Adam Adamant. It would certainly put a swagger in my step and fend off any rapscallions who crossed my path.

 

[oldwheels]

I have discovered a Harry Potter magic wand under our stairs.So I went out for my longest walk this year.I decided for some reason for take my very very old walking stick with me.The one with some fantastic badges on it.So there I am walking along swinging the stick some young people move over and give me more room.I try to cross the road where there is no crossing cars stop let me over.Come to a crossing and again cars stop,a bloke on the other side of the road with his stick waves at me.I might just take this out every time I go walking it has power.

My elder son who had health problems had a stick on one occasion when he came out of hospital and said he found people in Aberdeen were very helpful and courteous when he had the stick for walking.
I have a folding stick and a recumbent trike so a double whammy.

 

[ColinJ]

I don’t particularly look forward to birthdays these days Another step towards the crem...

Look at it the other way round - it is one day further away from the day that you were born. It is like doing 25 mile time trials and achieving a PB every time you compete! "Today, I managed to have lived longer than I ever did before!"

 

[oldwheels]

I quite fancy a sword stick like the one carried by Adam Adamant. It would certainly put a swagger in my step and fend off any rapscallions who crossed my path.

I nearly bought one once as there was a guy at a Trade Fair I was at who had swords of all types for sale. which he claimed to make himself. They were all real and not fakes. I did ask if he got any grief from the police and he said not. I decided it would not be a good idea in practice. Some new [to us ] police constables objected to diving knives even so we had to keep them hidden. A good sharp knife can be a life saver to a diver caught in a net for example. It has happened.

 

[oldwheels]

Look at it the other way round - it is one day further away from the day that you were born. It is like doing 25 mile time trials and achieving a PB every time you compete! "Today, I managed to have lived longer than I ever did before!"

Another way of looking at it is that the present lockdown has taken a very large percentage of my remaining life span. Not much left now.

 

[ColinJ]

Another way of looking at it is that the present lockdown has taken a very large percentage of my remaining life span. Not much left now.

A more optimistic way of looking at it would be to realise that you could have caught Covid-19 a year ago and taken 2 months to die horribly...

 

[rustybolts]

Another way of looking at it is that the present lockdown has taken a very large percentage of my remaining life span. Not much left now.

There could be lots of years left in you !! Think Young ! 👍

 

[gavroche]

I agree. My name is already on a headstone waiting to be engraved with the date when I join my wife.
I do not go for speed nowadays although I do admit to a childish delight in flying downhill sometimes.
This is one reason [ apart from balance problems] I like my trike. I can stop and look at things easily and have a seat at the same time.

My mother did exactly the same thing. My dad died in 1999 and my mother in 2014 so all we had to do was add the date and they are together.