The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I was hungry!
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WoW......looks good Mo.

 

[12boy]

Mo, about 4 of those plates would be about right for little ole me. Assuming, of course, there was dessert.

 

[classic33]

Mo, about 4 of those plates would be about right for little ole me. Assuming, of course, there was dessert.

Why eat the plates?

 

[Dave7]

@PaulSB if you don't know the cycling on ITV4 is Paris to Nice.... just starting.

 

[welsh dragon]

You live in a good area, as do we and generally none of this is a problem.

Other than my wife I've never discussed this with a woman. I intend to ask the women I know well enough to ask as and when I see them. Mrs P feels the vast majority of women will have experienced some form of unwanted sexual attention in their lives. My best friend is a woman and she walks her dog in an unlit park twice a day, I've told her this worries me, she says it doesn't worry her. There are areas of Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London where I would always be wary, some places I would not go to at night. I'm a southerner, born and raised 45 miles from London - 50+ years ago I knew Clapham Common was a bad place to be most of the time and definitely so at night. For Mrs P there are areas much closer to home where she would be very wary, such as a short stretch of unlit lane, 200 metres, where she would walk in the middle of the road rather than in the dark shadows of the trees. When Mrs P finished a split shift at work, 02.00, she would ask the security staff to walk her across the car park to her car. We lived in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 40 years ago, Bobby Sands territory along with a lot of very dodgy characters. I used to walk to the bus stop to meet Mrs P as she returned from a late shift. Mrs P would not walk the canal at night, I would but only very warily, our next door neighbour will not go alone at any time. It's a personal choice.

I don't want to get involved in here, it's not the place. I do though have a lot of time for @monkers and her understanding approach to this and other subjects. I think it's important to understand the reactions of those you want onside.

I had 2 experiences in my life. Once when I was 17 and walking home from the shops with a small baby a lad decided to expose himself. It was broad daylight, the middle of the day in fact, and to say I was shocked was an understatement.

The second time was when I was working in the middle of Birmingham. I was on my way to work one morning and went round a corner as a man was going in the opposite direction. Before I even realised what had happened, he pinched my derriere and was gone. It happened so fast that I even wondered if I had imagined it at first. Both instances happened in Birmingham.

Thank god no other instances ever took place.

 

[ColinJ]

@PaulSB if you don't know the cycling on ITV4 is Paris to Nice.... just starting.

Does anybody still watch live TV?

(Coverage of every stage of the race is available on ITV Hub but I prefer to record it so I can skip the ad breaks.)

 

[classic33]

Does anybody still watch live TV?

(Coverage of every stage of the race is available on ITV Hub but I prefer to record it so I can skip the ad breaks.)

Hope they have decent lights fitted, if it's live and has just started!

 

[BoldonLad]

Does anybody still watch live TV?

(Coverage of every stage of the race is available on ITV Hub but I prefer to record it so I can skip the ad breaks.)

Ditto. I almost never watch the commercial channels live, I prefer to record and skip the adverts.

 

[ColinJ]

Hope they have decent lights fitted, if it's live and has just started!

Their recorded coverage is live, but I record the recording!

 

[Dave7]

Does anybody still watch live TV?

(Coverage of every stage of the race is available on ITV Hub but I prefer to record it so I can skip the ad breaks.)

I don't even know what itv hub is.
I am recording it to watch tomorrow.

 

[classic33]

I don't even know what itv hub is.

Simple, it's where they sort the regional programs out before transmission to the correct areas.

 

[Tenkaykev]

My tins are 100mm x30mm round, I make the pasty and cut out a saucer size piece of pasty (140mm round) I lay the pastry on top of the tin and with thumb and finger I gently push the pastry into the tin and trim the edges.
With another tin, I roll out the pastry and place tin upside down to cut out a lid.
Fill the tin and place lid on top, I do not crimp.
Egg glaze the top.
Cook at gas mark 5

A colleagues daughter got a job as waitress at a local pub that advertised “Home Made” pies. The pies arrived in a refrigerated van with the pies already made up cooked and chilled. There was a separate pack containing pastry lids which where then placed on top and crimped before reheating.

 

[ColinJ]

I don't even know what itv hub is.

ITV Hub a.k.a. ITV.com = ITV player.

 

[Juan Kog]

PaulSB , another illusion shattered your a southerner, I always read your posts imagining them in a strong Lancashire accent. dave r is originally from Suffolk so doesn’t have a West Midlands accent . What next Mo1959 isn’t Scottish and speaks with a strong Devon accent. This is awful no one sounds like I imagine. .

 

[classic33]

PaulSB , another illusion shattered your a southerner, I always read your posts imagining them in a strong Lancashire accent. dave r is originally from Suffolk so doesn’t have a West Midlands accent . What next Mo1959 isn’t Scottish and speaks with a strong Devon accent. This is awful no one sounds like I imagine. .

Colinj not from Yorkshire.
Unlike missen Yorkshire born n'bred, buttered in Ireland.