The Retirement Thread

[oldwheels]

We get a sticky calendar which goes inside a cupboard door....each week is colour coded to show which bins go out which week.

If we want a calendar we have to download it and print it ourselves. The holiday house owner opposite told me once he just left instructions to look and see what other people did. Trouble is the other holiday houses just leave them in the street anyway so they stick everything out but never take them in. They end up getting literally thrown back in through the gate. Not necessarily me unless they block my car in.

 

[Paulus]

Our reception was a sit down silver service affair,
We wanted a bog standard buffet for a few people but her Dad insisted on sit down meal.
It was years later we found the debt he had got himself into.
BTW.....our marriage has lasted 54 years.
We haven't spoken for the last 53 years but so what.

Our wedding was a kind of traditional sort of do. After the church, it was back to the upstairs venue room at a pub in Barnet for a sit down 3 course meal. There was a buffet in the evening with an adult disco. £500 quid behind the bar which almost lasted until the end of proceedings.
40 years later we are still going strong.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Our wedding was a kind of traditional sort of do. After the church, it was back to the upstairs venue room at a pub in Barnet for a sit down 3 course meal. There was a buffet in the evening with an adult disco. £500 quid behind the bar which almost lasted until the end of proceedings.
40 years later we are still going strong.

Ah but £500 quid forty years ago is equivalent to about a million quid nowadays so you must be minted 😉😁

 

[Drago]

Is the front light on, third bike from the left.

No, trick of the light.

 

[Dave7]

Ah but £500 quid forty years ago is equivalent to about a million quid nowadays so you must be minted 😉😁

I was just thinking that. When I got married in 1968 I had a decent job and was (I think) on 20 quid a week...... which would make 500 quid behind the bar A LOT of money.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When we got married (3 years and one day ago - she forgot!) it was her third one!
We got done in a registry office - then went to a local pub and had a proper pub type meal
That was it - we could have afforded more but she had done that twice and ended up with a couple of idiots - and I REALLY didn't want 'a do'.

1097 days in we seem to be OK

I do wonder about people who spend tens of thousands on a wedding - then complain that they can't afford to buy a house because they don;t have the money for a deposit!

 

[numbnuts]

5 mile walk done, I think I'll join a walking group if I don't go out on my trike soon

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

5 mile walk done, I think I'll join a walking group if I don't go out on my trike soon

I could do with doing that as soon as this pandemic stuff calms down a bit

 

[numbnuts]

When we got married (3 years and one day ago - she forgot!) it was her third one!
We got done in a registry office - then went to a local pub and had a proper pub type meal
That was it - we could have afforded more but she had done that twice and ended up with a couple of idiots - and I REALLY didn't want 'a do'.

1097 days in we seem to be OK

I do wonder about people who spend tens of thousands on a wedding - then complain that they can't afford to buy a house because they don;t have the money for a deposit!

When one of my mates got married afterwards we went to Debenhams for a coffee and a jam donut

 

[Dirk]

I can think of worse place to be today.

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[ColinJ]

Yikes! My sister just rang and told me that she and my niece had been driving along the A30 in Devon a couple of days ago when the car's engine suddenly cut out. The road there is a very busy dual carriageway. Sis managed to coast over to the left, then both of them scrambled up a grassy embankment to safety. They phoned for a breakdown truck, but that took 3 hours to arrive. After a few minutes a brave (but foolhardy?) motorist stopped and shouted that the dead car was in a very dangerous position and volunteered to push it up onto the embankment. He pretty much managed to get it off the road.

That could have gone very bad, very quickly!

 

[pawl]

When one of my mates got married afterwards we went to Debenhams for a coffee and a jam donut

The best wedding reception was some years agoThe groom was a farmer and the brides dad was also a farmer The wedding was on the last day of December and it was freezing Reception was in the village hall prepared by both of the mothers Beef stew and dumplings followed by a choice of Apple pie Treacle Pudding or Spotted Dick.

 

[Dave7]

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Looks to be a decent pint.
Short measure though

 

[Dave7]

The best wedding reception was some years agoThe groom was a farmer and the brides dad was also a farmer The wedding was on the last day of December and it was freezing Reception was in the village hall prepared by both of the mothers Beef stew and dumplings followed by a choice of Apple pie Treacle Pudding or Spotted Dick.

Can't beat having a spotted dick

 

[Tenkaykev]

I was just thinking that. When I got married in 1968 I had a decent job and was (I think) on 20 quid a week...... which would make 500 quid behind the bar A LOT of money.

Maybe he meant to type that he put £5.00 behind the bar and forgot the decimal point 😁