The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Guess what folks . I am having my Covid19 jab next Friday in Newtown. I wasn't expecting to hear anything until the middle of March at the earliest

 

[gavroche]

Chickened out on my planned ride again today . Although the sun is out, the wind is cold.
I am getting to be very fussy as I get older. Also, I have rice pudding cooking in the oven so must keep an eye on that.
Roll on spring.

 

[oldwheels]

Pease meal was mentioned recently. Tip. Do not spill any, ever. It is an extremely fine powder and gets into any cracks and corners and blocks the filters in any vacuum cleaner. Don't ask how I know.
Spent the day footering aboot converting an old fishing rod into a flag pole for the trike. Too wide at the base to fit into the existing mount so made an adapter from a bit of metal rod lying around. Cannot test it as the trike is in the car and it is raining so it can wait.
Shetland flag fitted to it since hope springs eternal. I may get to Shetland this year.
Son no. 2 phoned just back from Taiwan but has to quarantine for 10 days plus several tests. At least he has 6 weeks at home this time tho' 2 of these are written off by quarantine.

 

[12boy]

Good morning all.

Another grim day in paradise. We live in a tiny house for eco reasons. Ordinarily it's just about big enough, but being stuck indoors so much is building a sense of feeling a bit trapped for us here. I think I've decided to put some money into a slightly bigger house. Today will be spent to see what I can get for my what I'm prepared to spend. A rubbish time to be thinking of moving though.

Monkers....making big and costly decisions in a rush has never gone well for me. I have no idea what your place looks like or if you have room for an addition, but a solution might be a quasi outdoor room such as an enclosed porch or greehousey room. Perhaps something with a lot of light where you two can sit around in your bloomers, sipping mojitos and basking in the warmth of your pizza oven fireplace, which does double duty heating the water for your hot tub. Just sayin.

QUOTE="ebikeerwidnes, post: 6317604, member: 91667"]
Oooo - I was wondering about one of them - partly so I can wear my glasses while riding and not get them 'sandblasted' by flies in summer

which have you gone for???

my problem is being over 60 and overweight so anything looking cool would make me feel silly!!!

When working and needing a business trip to the Wind River Reservation, maybe 150 miles from my place I would rent an Escort from the Ford dealer as it was cheaper than my mileage stipend on my car. Once they had rented out my reserved car and gave me a screaming yellow, blacked out window, 350 hp Mustang fastback. Bitchin!
So, the funny thing was, since they couldn't see the bald and stodgy middle aged man behind the smoked windows they thought I was some hot young dude with some money. They would wave and smile. Probably the only time anyone thought I looked cool and that was because they couldn't see me.
The high today will be -4C and I will try for a ride later if I can find a way down to the river bike path without falling on my butt. The neighbood streets are churned up snow thawed and refrozen with an inch or two of fresh. We are in typical Wyoming roller coaster weather...there will be a 25 mph Chinook tonight and tomorrow and the temps will shoot up to 4C before the next little snow happens.

 

[classic33]

Guess what folks . I am having my Covid19 jab next Friday in Newtown. I wasn't expecting to hear anything until the middle of March at the earliest

I was due next Wednesday. Had to decline due to previous medical history.

 

[Dave7]

I was due next Wednesday. Had to decline due to previous medical history.

May I ask what would cause that ?
Feel free to ignore that question.

 

[gavroche]

Pease meal was mentioned recently. Tip. Do not spill any, ever. It is an extremely fine powder and gets into any cracks and corners and blocks the filters in any vacuum cleaner. Don't ask how I know.
Spent the day footering aboot converting an old fishing rod into a flag pole for the trike. Too wide at the base to fit into the existing mount so made an adapter from a bit of metal rod lying around. Cannot test it as the trike is in the car and it is raining so it can wait.
Shetland flag fitted to it since hope springs eternal. I may get to Shetland this year.
Son no. 2 phoned just back from Taiwan but has to quarantine for 10 days plus several tests. At least he has 6 weeks at home this time tho' 2 of these are written off by quarantine.

My son is going there next Wednesday until the end of May, long period this time. He used to work with your son a few years ago, as we discussed before if I remember well.

 

[rustybolts]

You say you would "rent an escort " Well !! before I saw "from a Ford dealer " visions of the film Pretty Woman flashed into my mind . I had a kinda new form of respect/fright there for a second

 

[ColinJ]

Does this one have a bakery ? I read that they are introducing that feature to some new stores.
That is one area Lidl scores over Aldi ......they do some yummy fresh cobs and pastries.

I spotted a bakery sign at Aldi when I looked through the window last night. I'll investigate tonight when I make my first shopping trip there.

The other thing I forgot to mention was that the car park looks a bit on the small side. When Aldi were planning the store they applied to buy the old community college next door. That no longer gets much use and the council seem to want to pull it down because of high maintenance costs. Aldi wanted to use the site to extend their proposed car park. That never happened. It wouldn't be a lot of use to do it now because the store has been built such that there isn't access from that side. People would have to push their shopping trolleys along the pavement (US: sidewalk!) to get to their cars with their shopping.

It isn't obvious from the front of the building how big the store is inside. I think it might be smaller than Todmorden's Lidl.

Oh yes, forgot. I watched "News of the World" a couple of days ago on Netflix. An excellent, off beat, western starring Tom Hanks. Thoroughly recommended and offers a different perspective on those days.

I was wondering about that film - I'll watch it soon then.

At least he has 6 weeks at home this time tho' 2 of these are written off by quarantine.

And £1,750 for the hotel room!

 

[classic33]

May I ask what would cause that ?
Feel free to ignore that question.

Lignocaine, local anaesthetic, causing sudden cardiac arrest, reactions to other medications. One antibiotic gave me a neck size in the mid twenties. Others have put me in A&E's.

 

[classic33]

I spotted a bakery sign at Aldi when I looked through the window last night. I'll investigate tonight when I make my first shopping trip there.

The other thing I forgot to mention was that the car park looks a bit on the small side. When Aldi were planning the store they applied to buy the old community college next door. That no longer gets much use and the council seem to want to pull it down because of high maintenance costs. Aldi wanted to use the site to extend their proposed car park. That never happened. It wouldn't be a lot of use to do it now because the store has been built such that there isn't access from that side. People would have to push their shopping trolleys along the pavement (US: sidewalk!) to get to their cars with their shopping.

It isn't obvious from the front of the building how big the store is inside. I think it might be smaller than Todmorden's Lidl.


I was wondering about that film - I'll watch it soon then.


And £1,750 for the hotel room!

It has one. Just ask Scott, the manager.

 

[postman]

A day of sitting on the sofa.What is not to like.

 

[Dave7]

I spotted a bakery sign at Aldi when I looked through the window last night. I'll investigate tonight when I make my first shopping trip there.

The other thing I forgot to mention was that the car park looks a bit on the small side. When Aldi were planning the store they applied to buy the old community college next door. That no longer gets much use and the council seem to want to pull it down because of high maintenance costs. Aldi wanted to use the site to extend their proposed car park. That never happened. It wouldn't be a lot of use to do it now because the store has been built such that there isn't access from that side. People would have to push their shopping trolleys along the pavement (US: sidewalk!) to get to their cars with their shopping.

It isn't obvious from the front of the building how big the store is inside. I think it might be smaller than Todmorden's Lidl.


I was wondering about that film - I'll watch it soon then.


And £1,750 for the hotel room!

Our local Aldi has a decent car park but its built adjacent to a housing estate so gets VERY busy.
On top of that its 200 yards from the A49.
If I don't get there for 0800 I don't bother.

 

[Dave7]

Lignocaine, local anaesthetic, causing sudden cardiac arrest, reactions to other medications. One antibiotic gave me a neck size in the mid twenties. Others have put me in A&E's.

Ooohh that would do it
Does that rule out all injections ??

 

[BoldonLad]

Reasonable day here, 8C, and no rain, but, a bit of a breeze blowing. We have our first cycle ride this year, only 11 miles, a nice short one to start.