The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

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.

Has anyone called you a miserable old bugger lately

 

[Dave7]

A long fight to get a new ring fitted to my cooker. It is easy enough if you know what you are doing but had to fly blind on this. A back ring is not easy to get at either.
Fortunately I spent many years fixing things from primitive distillery equipment to compressed air controlled valves/temperature controllers and latterly on knitting machinery. Mostly with no instructions or diagrams for guidance. Bicycles also it goes without saying.
A great feeling of satisfaction when the power gets turned on and smoke and heat arises from the new ring. The only problem was the holding bolt for the element would not tighten and discovered the thread was stripped. Rummage about in my junk box and a self tapper of the right size worked fine.
I have enough bits lying around to stock an ironmongers shop but sometimes I know I have the part I am looking for but cannot find it.Not everyone just happens to have spare cooker rings lying around.

Its good to get a new ring fitted

 

[PaulSB]

I was eighty on Feb2 No happy birthday’s perhaps because I didn’t say anything Think I’ll have a flounce
Hear goes,

Happy Birthday @pawl

🎉🍾🥂🎉💥

 

[ColinJ]

Has anyone called you a miserable old bugger lately

A few settlers in a campervan parked just round the corner...

 

[PaulSB]

Its good to get a new ring fitted

48? 50? 54?

Decisions. Decisions. Decisions.

 

[PaulSB]

Thanks.
I decided to celebrate by walking up and down the close in the nude.
I will let you know when they let me out

Is that let you out to walk up and down or out of prison?

 

[Dirk]

@Drago I enjoyed your bio pic.
Almost felt sorry for ya!
Good film though.

 

[Dave7]

Just been for a 2 mile walk. Quite pleasant out there.
I made the mistake of saying hello to a guy that was washing his car..... .I got his life story......eg
HIs range rover cost him £33K but he only got £18K when he traded it in for his Nissan Juke.
His artificial grass cost him £4K
His wife had a one night stand (I wonder why) so he ditched her and now lives with a woman 10 years younger.
He bought a static home then cancelled it
blah blah blah......
Thing is, he was very pleasant and I dont think he was boasting.......just seemed glad to talk to someone.

 

[Dave7]

Is that let you out to walk up and down or out of prison?

I pleaded insanity and they let me out

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I managed to get out for bimble, I haven't been far, my Hoar Park loop, a lumpy steady 20 miles, out through Kearsley and past Hoar Park then home down the Tamworth Road. The Physio's boss phoned my Good Lady whilst I was out, if I'd been in I'd have given her some grief, the girls lovely, the one time she worked with my Good Lady she was very good, but she's unreliable, was supposed to come Thursday but I had to phone her and get her to come Friday, she told us she was coming Monday and said she'd phone through the time but didn't, I phoned up and she said Tuesday, then one of her colleagues phoned to say she wasn't in and it was cancelled.

 

[12boy]

Happy birthday to Dave 7 and Pawl although for myself there's really only been two I gave a hairy rat's butt about....when I was working before my first retirement and joined the KMA club and when I was 70 and could get the max Social Security pension without reduction.
After our little cold snap -7 C feels balmy. Gracie, my rattie had to go out for a prolonged sniff of 5 minutes and I sat on a little bench on the front porch and enjoyed the early morning sun while sucking on a big mug of ambition. in August, when it would be a high of 40C, if it dropped to 24C out came a jacket. Funny how we get used to cold or heat.
I will have my 3 egg and Marmite toast breakfast today and find my way downtown to get Mrs 12's Journal and return a few books, and maybe get some more. I put some flipped North Road bars on my Bianchi and I am curious as to how they will feel.
This afternoon we will go out to a store or three. There's a pizza place that has divine Neapolitan thin crust Margherita pizza for $6 on Mon and Tues, so perhaps we will get a couple of 12 inchers as take out.
All in all it should be a good day, as is appropriate to celebrate our two birthday boys natal achievements.
Ten salud y sea feliz, compadres.

 

[postman]

I pleaded insanity and they let me out

Ok let's check that statement.I will give the answer later.So you are looking at a bath full of water.You have a spoon,an egg cup and a half pint glass.Which is the quickest way to get the water out.

 

[oldwheels]

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...

I did not catch it largely because I did not take stupid risks and spent much of last summer unable to get out due to the hordes who came to infest us. Do I sound bitter? Well yes I am.

 

[oldwheels]

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

If I live to the age of my parents I should last another 10 or 12 years but this being winter and not being able to walk far I feel very old and frustrated.

 

[oldwheels]

Has anyone called you a miserable old bugger lately

Not to my face anyway and I do put a reasonably cheerful face on in public but yes at the moment I am turning into a miserable old bugger. I have always been of a wandering disposition and not being able to do so is hard to take.