The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Grey start but the sun is now out so hopefully will get out later. Got bread rising so need to look after that.
Council Tax notice arrived yesterday. No change as tax is frozen in Scotland this year and water and sewage remain the same also.
I get a bit annoyed with my family sometimes. They asked if there was anything I needed and I said that on my next mainland visit I would get some Bouillion and mebbe a pot plant but not anything urgent. What arrives by post from Amazon? A large tub of Bouillion and an expensive pot plant. Much more than I would have spent and while it is good of them it is not necessarily what I wanted.

My brother and his wife had a habit of buying birthday and christmas presents for dad that he didn’t need or want and just lay unused. I usually picked up in conversation things that he would use and appreciate so at least they got used.

 

[GM]

I did group rides for somewhere around 15 years, enjoyed most of them but eventually I stopped enjoying them and started to struggle to keep up with my usual group, I did a slower ride for a couple of years but eventually drifted into riding alone.

That's something I miss, riding in large groups. I try to keep near the back of the pack where the banter is better. The biggest one was a Friday night ride to the coast (FNRttC) several years ago with 150 of us going to Brighton.

 

[welsh dragon]

Ooh. Mothers day today. I will have to phone my mum later.

 

[Mo1959]

Ooh. Mothers day today. I will have to phone my mum later.

Wish I could


Taken on a holiday in Tenerife with my brother. Was gone around 3 years later.

 

[Dave7]

@PaulSB ....will you do me favour please. I cannot find that list of Long Covid clinics you posted. Do you have a link for it?
Failing that can you re-post the list.
Many thanks.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That's something I miss, riding in large groups. I try to keep near the back of the pack where the banter is better. The biggest one was a Friday night ride to the coast (FNRttC) several years ago with 150 of us going to Brighton.

I was with the Coventry Road Club, used to ride the veterans ride, the group was mostly older riders who wanted a ride faster than the Family ride but slower than the training ride, it was very good but as old rider left and new ones came in it morphed into a medium paced ride full of young riders, we formed another ride that was more like the original ride but it got shorter and shorter and I did more and more lone rides, after my close encounter with Angina in 2008 I couldn't keep up with any of the club rides and went to lone rides only.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Opened the door this morning to head out for my run. Big box on the doorstep with a lovely bouquet of flowers for Mrs Tenkaykev from our daughter in Edinburgh. I'd forgotten that it was Mothers Day. Run was a bit of a slog, a few twinges and the legs were saying no.
I can hear the sounds of the "Archers Omnibus" drifting in from the kitchen so I'll steer clear until it's finished. Mrs Tenkaykev was a member of the "Archers Anarchists", a tongue in cheek organisation with the motto " The Archers are real, there is no cast" Mrs Tenkaykev even had a car sticker with the same motto. This disappeared when we passed the car on to our daughter

 

[numbnuts]

Wish I could


Taken on a holiday in Tenerife with my brother. Was gone around 3 years later.

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At least you have the memories of her, I've lit a candle, but I do wonder who it's for, me for doing something, or for her......

 

[Mo1959]

I still prefer the Fergie.

Here you go. Not great quality as just through the kitchen window.

 

[PaulSB]

Grey start but the sun is now out so hopefully will get out later. Got bread rising so need to look after that.
Council Tax notice arrived yesterday. No change as tax is frozen in Scotland this year and water and sewage remain the same also.
I get a bit annoyed with my family sometimes. They asked if there was anything I needed and I said that on my next mainland visit I would get some Bouillion and mebbe a pot plant but not anything urgent. What arrives by post from Amazon? A large tub of Bouillion and an expensive pot plant. Much more than I would have spent and while it is good of them it is not necessarily what I wanted.

I know it gets cold but........

 

[PaulSB]

@PaulSB ....will you do me favour please. I cannot find that list of Long Covid clinics you posted. Do you have a link for it?
Failing that can you re-post the list.
Many thanks.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2020/12/long-covid-patients-to-get-help-at-more-than-60-clinics/

Scroll down for the list

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Tree in front garden blew down at some point

well - I say tree
we moved in (well I did - SWMBO moved in a few years later and we got married a few years after that) about 6 years ago and at that point it was obvious that it was really an old trunk holding up a variety of other tree like things - one or more of which could be part of the original

anyway a bloke claiming to be a tree surgeon came round a few days ago saying he thought it was rotten and might blow down - he shoved it and said it needed to come down - but left without leaving a card or leaflet or anything
not sure if he damaged it or not - but yesterday it looked a bit angled and today it was worse
to I have felled it - not quite like Monty Python - I just pushed it a bit and then and the 2 main trunks just snapped - sounding very rotten
so I pulled it apart and chopped the clingy bit off

took about 30 minutes - pain in neck as I will have to dig out a load of roots when the weather improves - I think plans are afoot to dig the whole think out (or supervise me digging the whole thing out) and replaceing it with a nice ornamental tree - which 'someone' will kindly supervise me planting

I am allergic to manual labour!!

 

[Mo1959]

Tree in front garden blew down at some point

well - I say tree
we moved in (well I did - SWMBO moved in a few years later and we got married a few years after that) about 6 years ago and at that point it was obvious that it was really an old trunk holding up a variety of other tree like things - one or more of which could be part of the original

anyway a bloke claiming to be a tree surgeon came round a few days ago saying he thought it was rotten and might blow down - he shoved it and said it needed to come down - but left without leaving a card or leaflet or anything
not sure if he damaged it or not - but yesterday it looked a bit angled and today it was worse
to I have felled it - not quite like Monty Python - I just pushed it a bit and then and the 2 main trunks just snapped - sounding very rotten
so I pulled it apart and chopped the clingy bit off

took about 30 minutes - pain in neck as I will have to dig out a load of roots when the weather improves - I think plans are afoot to dig the whole think out (or supervise me digging the whole thing out) and replaceing it with a nice ornamental tree - which 'someone' will kindly supervise me planting

I am allergic to manual labour!!

I bet your tree surgeon would have charged over a hundred quid to do the same so at least you have saved some dosh.

 

[BoldonLad]

Tree in front garden blew down at some point

well - I say tree
we moved in (well I did - SWMBO moved in a few years later and we got married a few years after that) about 6 years ago and at that point it was obvious that it was really an old trunk holding up a variety of other tree like things - one or more of which could be part of the original

anyway a bloke claiming to be a tree surgeon came round a few days ago saying he thought it was rotten and might blow down - he shoved it and said it needed to come down - but left without leaving a card or leaflet or anything
not sure if he damaged it or not - but yesterday it looked a bit angled and today it was worse
to I have felled it - not quite like Monty Python - I just pushed it a bit and then and the 2 main trunks just snapped - sounding very rotten
so I pulled it apart and chopped the clingy bit off

took about 30 minutes - pain in neck as I will have to dig out a load of roots when the weather improves - I think plans are afoot to dig the whole think out (or supervise me digging the whole thing out) and replaceing it with a nice ornamental tree - which 'someone' will kindly supervise me planting

I am allergic to manual labour!!

Nothing like a bit of "supervision" to keep a man right

 

[welsh dragon]

Well. It's hissing down again. I am making yet another dam teddy bear. I will be happy when i have finished i must admit.