The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Snake and pygmy pie for lunch for us.

I to have another 12 months to go before I can collect my pension. Can't wait.

 

[Dave7]

For the last week or so I've been using the alarm on my Garmin watch. It silently vibrates against my wrist which is great as it doesn't disturb Mrs Tenkaykev if she is sound asleep.

Depends where your wrist is

 

[Dave7]

I've just found something that makes me think maybe Marmite isn't that bad after all.
Curried tripe recipe | Food | The Guardian

for tripe
And
for curried tripe

 

[ColinJ]

I just have a smallish pension as I retired early but my dad and step mum left a fair bit so I just dip into that when I need, otherwise I would be struggling too. Just over 4 years and I will have the state pension on top so will be even better.

There is also the chance that I might actually finish one of my puzzle games and earn some money from that. Earning (say) just £20/week pre-pension would be embarrassing but to earn it as a pension top-up would be great!

I have been making excuses NOT to finish the first game after making the mistake of showing the prototype to people who are not interested in this kind of thing. "You are wasting your time - It's crap!" wasn't exactly the encouragement I was looking for!

 

[Tenkaykev]

There is also the chance that I might actually finish one of my puzzle games and earn some money from that. Earning (say) just £20/week pre-pension would be embarrassing but to earn it as a pension top-up would be great!

I have been making excuses NOT to finish the first game after making the mistake of showing the prototype to people who are not interested in this kind of thing. "You are wasting your time - It's crap!" wasn't exactly the encouragement I was looking for!

I’m not a gamer at all, unless you count “ Space Invaders “ on my Sinclair Spectrum all those years ago. There is one “ game” app that I find enchanting, “ Monument Valley “ on the iPad. It’s a puzzle game where you have to guide a young cartoon girl through a series of geometric landscapes. The accompanying soundtrack is gentle and calming.

 

[PaulSB]

World book day today, Callum’s gone to school dressed as a word rather than a book.
It shouldn't be too difficult for this astute bunch to work it out.....
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If they can read......

 

[PaulSB]

I just have a smallish pension as I retired early but my dad and step mum left a fair bit so I just dip into that when I need, otherwise I would be struggling too. Just over 4 years and I will have the state pension on top so will be even better.

Yes, though ours is savings, we do the same. When Mrs P gets her state pension it won't be necessary but we probably will have more days out, weekends away.

The kids get the house but we hope to be skint the day we pop off. I've told the children the house is yours but don't bother looking in the bank!!

 

[PaulSB]

Finished on the allotment, about two hours tomorrow should see the essentials finished.

Time to shower, lunch - naan bread, tuna, gherkins, cuppa - and prepare for the reunion.

Any tips on how I can take ten years off my appearance? In an hour........

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I just have a smallish pension as I retired early but my dad and step mum left a fair bit so I just dip into that when I need, otherwise I would be struggling too. Just over 4 years and I will have the state pension on top so will be even better.

I've been drawing my state pension for four years now, topped up with pension credit.

 

[classic33]

Wow, THAT was odd! A noise woke me up - workmen operating machinery outside. I felt totally exhausted and had a headache...

Then my alarm went off, at the correct volume this time. Obviously I couldn't have adjusted it properly the morning before. The lack of sleep is not doing me any favours!

I felt too groggy to get up so I decided to go back to sleep. I closed my eyes but was immediately startled by another loud noise outside.

Somehow or other the fright seemed to have cleared my groggy head and fatigue. And then I noticed the time - in what felt like just 10 seconds I had actually slept for 70 more minutes!

My body is telling me to get more sleep at night. As soon as I relax during the day I doze off. It takes me about 90 minutes to watch my evening recording of the 55 minute Ch4 news because I fall asleep and wind back the bits I missed!


Hmm... Warfarin, but that would be 6 hours or so. That is worth looking into. Thanks.

Don't stop or alter the timing of the medication, just put up with no milk in the cuppa. The safer option.

What happened to this new "rota/timetable" you said you were going to be sticking to, to help you sleep?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Finished on the allotment, about two hours tomorrow should see the essentials finished.

Time to shower, lunch - naan bread, tuna, gherkins, cuppa - and prepare for the reunion.

Any tips on how I can take ten years off my appearance? In an hour........

Did one yesterday - most of hadn;t seen each other since 1978

Naturally 2 people had hardy changed except for hair colour

Think I have aged most - but whatever
I know photographers sometimes rub vaseline on the lens to make people look younger
you could try that but I suspect you might just look fuzzy - is that better or worse than reality????

 

[numbnuts]

It's freezing out it's 5c, but it feels a lot colder

 

[classic33]

Finished on the allotment, about two hours tomorrow should see the essentials finished.

Time to shower, lunch - naan bread, tuna, gherkins, cuppa - and prepare for the reunion.

Any tips on how I can take ten years off my appearance? In an hour........

Sellotape or skin coloured surgical tape to hold back and tighten any sagging skin. Shoe polish to darken the hair. NO LED lights.

 

[classic33]

It's freezing out it's 5c, but it feels a lot colder

6.8°C here, trying to rain. Fog has gone though.

 

[classic33]

Depends where your wrist is

Same place it's always been, end of his arm and before his hand.
Where else!!