The Retirement Thread

[jongooligan]

Hi folks. Haven't been around for a while. You know how it is in retirement - so much to do, so little time......

Just thought I'd drop in as I slept for thirteen and a half hours last night and it made me think that I wouldn't have been able to do that if I was still w*rking. Should be feeling full of zing but could go back to bed tbh.

 

[gavroche]

Holidays ? I already had 6 weeks in Devon and going back for another 2 or 3 on Monday. My wife has had 4 months so far but coming back with me this time, sometime in early May. We shall see what the rest of the year brings but I am not hopeful about going abroad.

 

[Dirk]

What's this white stuff?!

 

[Exlaser2]

Mrs ex laser and I really wanted to go back to the Italian lakes for our wedding anniversary this year but what with COVID and Brexsh@t there is no way its worth the trouble and the risk .
We have booked a deckhouse at emsworth for a week at the start July ( fingers crossed we don’t get another lock down ) instead. It a lovely place and we can take and store all the bikes and boats/paddleboards etc that we want. We have been there before so no wasted time finding out we’re things are 😀

 

[oldwheels]

Feet up, watch the telly.
Climb the walls on day 10.

My son and gavroche's as well do this every few weeks when working in Taiwan. At least they get paid for it but holidaymakers don't.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been for a little bimble this morning, 25 miles, did my Meriden loop stopping at Berkswell to take some pictures, a lovely bright sunny morning, with a stiff bitter cold breeze, one those that blows through you rather round you. a lovely ride out with the wind behind me, but a serious slog into the breeze crossing Coventry at the end, Thats the first time out the house since Saturday, apart from getting the papers from the corner shop, and I enjoyed that.

 

[BoldonLad]

People booking May holidays abroad!!! Is it me?
France is on a 4 week lock down.
UK is expecting a 3rd wave (depending who you listen to).
Yet people are booking May holidays.
OK, at my age and with we have going on, holidays are on the back burner. But, 6 weeks ago, before the sh*t hit the fan we had decided to 'wait this virus out'.
What think you ?

Personally... I would not be flying anywhere, but, if lockdown was lifted in (say) France, Germany, etc, I think I would risk a trip through the tunnel in our Motorhome and a month or so in mainland Europe. Up until March 2020, we used to go for 5 months per year, in two "sessions" of 3 months and 2 months. We were in Spain when the first Covid lockdown hit (March 2020).

Each to their own of course, but, my view of Covid is, it is not going away, so, we have to adjust and live with it. At 73, I probably don't have that many years left, and, I do not wish to spend them confined to the house. IMHO, it is a case of balancing the risks. Can't see me using crowded public transport for a while, for example.

 

[gavroche]

@Dirk I forgot to mention before, make sure you have your umbrella handy next week as I'll be back.

 

[Dave7]

Personally... I would not be flying anywhere, but, if lockdown was lifted in (say) France, Germany, etc, I think I would risk a trip through the tunnel in our Motorhome and a month or so in mainland Europe. Up until March 2020, we used to go for 5 months per year, in two "sessions" of 3 months and 2 months. We were in Spain when the first Covid lockdown hit (March 2020).

Each to their own of course, but, my view of Covid is, it is not going away, so, we have to adjust and live with it. At 73, I probably don't have that many years left, and, I do not wish to spend them confined to the house. IMHO, it is a case of balancing the risks. Cant see me using crowded public transport for a while, for example.

On our last flight home they announced that no one should eat peanuts as there were people on board with allergies.
I (politely) asked how me eating peanuts could affect someone in another part of the plane. They explained that the spores etc get into the air con system
We later thought.....blimey, what if there is just one person on the plane with Covid .

 

[Dirk]

@Dirk I forgot to mention before, make sure you have your umbrella handy next week as I'll be back.

That's OK - I'll be in Cornwall.

 

[Dirk]

Had my latest Isle of Man TT Riders Association newsletter.
I think they could have used more stamps.

 

[oldwheels]

Just on the thought of poking the ultra serious from time to time reminds me I have difficulty dealing with people who have no sense of humour and cannot understand irony.
I must stop poking fun at things on our local humourless FB page. I have just got off with a short ban this time and am allowed to post again. Not sure what I did this time but the mods forbid swear words like "settler" and anything which might frighten a tourist. I think I gave a " like " to a forbidden topic which slipped through the net.

 

[Exlaser2]

The trouble is on a forum or fb page it’s very difficult sometimes to tell if someone’s trying to be funny in a dark way or are just being a dick 😂😂😂😂

 

[oldwheels]

The trouble is on a forum or fb page it’s very difficult sometimes to tell if someone’s trying to be funny in a dark way or are just being a dick 😂😂😂😂

Depends on the size of the forum I think. On here I probably can tell the difference due to the relatively small numbers involved.
On our local FB page my name appears and if they have no idea who I am that is their problem. I have been here for nearly 50 years now and anybody of any consequence will know who I am and whether I am serious or not.
I also know most who post regularly on FB and there are one or two known stirrers who do not even live here but feel they have to put their oar in. Local ones I can judge easily enough.
Am I being too serious?

 

[classic33]

Wow it's a massive 2 deg here and feeling like 0 deg. And we keep having snow flurries

6.4°C here, with the odd attempt at snowing being made.