The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Postmans been and gone and no parcel

Is it definitely Royal Mail and not Hermes, etc?

 

[PaulSB]

Right then. House cleaned from bottom to top. Well not quite top as the loft room is Mrs P's tip sewing and craft room. I refuse to clean this room. Stove blacked, two coloured washes, one white wash, beds changed, floors polished, dusted. May do some more ironing if I can find a good film to watch.

For the moment I'm heading up to the allotment to build wigwams for my beans. I may stop by the garage and polish a bike or two.

 

[gavroche]

Salut.
Resume of my day so far:
Took Molly to the local park for a walk.
Picked up some stuff for my wife that she bought at an on line local auction and wondering how many handbags she needs. This one is a pink one.
Went to see stepson to see how he is getting on with his decking as he has a day off. He is doing very well and doesn't need me.
Now wondering if I should:
Hoover the lounge but that would mean waking up Molly who is having a nap so No.
Cutting the grass ? Maybe tomorrow.
Go for a ride? Too cold and cloudy.
Oh well, another easy, lazy day then.
Stay safe every one.

 

[pawl]

Not long after we got married my wife wakened me in a panic during the night.
" There's somebody in the room".
When I turned a light on nothing to be seen. There had been somebody standing beside the bed she claimed and gave a detailed description of this person.
Tall man with a wrinkled tanned face and white curly hair and very bushy eyebrows. He was wearing a green smock of some kind. He also appeared sightly malevolent.
Next morning when I went into the distillery I gave this description individually with no explanation to any of the older employees. They all said that it sounded like old Tom Duncan who had been manager and after retiring died in that house. I later met the managing director's wife who had the same reaction.
My wife had never met this person or seen any photographs which could have influenced her and it remains a mystery.

Grace Dieu priore near Belton Leicestershire was dissolved in 1538 The prioress body was reinterred at the graveyard at Belton Parish church On night the bus from Loughborough to Ashby stopped at Belton Lane endThe bus driver reported that he stopped to pick up a passenger dressed in white but no one got on the bus He checked out side but found no one.There had been reports of sittings in the past.The theory was it was the prioress visiting the priory to check on the nuns.Myself and my mate used to visit the Charnwood section CTCclub room at Peggs Green.on return to Loughborough we passed the priory we both peddled a bit faster .We both agreed there was an eerie atmosphere particularly on dark misty nights when passing the priory

Iwas reading a book Haunted Yorkshire There had been reported sightings of Roman soldiers marching through a pub but the images only showed just above ankle level their feet not being visible.During renovations at the pub the floor was taken up and a Roman pavement was found and thought to be part of a Roman street possibly part of a marching route The theory was that the apparitions we’re only visible from the ankles upwards due to the original level being lower than the excavated floor
Believe what you will. Sightings are many and varied I will stay open minded Generally I believe that once you die that’s it Perhaps you need the so called gift to see these apparitions

Roman soldiers marching through a pub and nt stopping for a pint?

 

[12boy]

Drizzly today and coolish. This light soak-in-the-ground rain is what the Navajos call female rain. I will prolly go for a ride to the liberry, get the weekly paper for Mrs 12, and then if she feels up to it, work out groceries for the week. Yesterday she felt nauseous most of day and slept a lot, so that task was postponed.
Sorry to hear Mrs D7 is struggling. Mrs 12 gets relief from CBD oil and little bits of Special Chocolate when her nausea is bad. The only mind altering things for me at this point are coffee and tea.
My father in law used to bully his wife but when he got to my current age he couldn't remember the names of things and would say to her " I need that thing," she'd pretend not to know what he meant, and they would go back and forth which frustrated the yellow poo out of him. Payback is a bitch. Unfortunately, I seem to be having a little trouble myself with this issue myself these days. Kinda goes along with walking into a room and wondering what I came there for. Oh, and have you seen my car keys?

 

[numbnuts]

Is it definitely Royal Mail and not Hermes, etc?

No it was Royal fail

 

[12boy]

Once Mrs 12, Gracie the Dog and I were driving along a mountain road between Denver and Albuquerque when Gracie became agitated and acted as if she needed a potty break. We stopped and she wandered around for 10 minutes and never went. We got back in the car and came around a bend to see a horrible 2 car headon crash that must have been fatal for someone. Had she not insisted on stopping there is an excellent chance we would have been a third car in that wreck. Good dog!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Grace Dieu priore near Belton Leicestershire was dissolved in 1538 The prioress body was reinterred at the graveyard at Belton Parish church On night the bus from Loughborough to Ashby stopped at Belton Lane endThe bus driver reported that he stopped to pick up a passenger dressed in white but no one got on the bus He checked out side but found no one.There had been reports of sittings in the past.The theory was it was the prioress visiting the priory to check on the nuns.Myself and my mate used to visit the Charnwood section CTCclub room at Peggs Green.on return to Loughborough we passed the priory we both peddled a bit faster .We both agreed there was an eerie atmosphere particularly on dark misty nights when passing the priory

Iwas reading a book Haunted Yorkshire There had been reported sightings of Roman soldiers marching through a pub but the images only showed just above ankle level their feet not being visible.During renovations at the pub the floor was taken up and a Roman pavement was found and thought to be part of a Roman street possibly part of a marching route The theory was that the apparitions we’re only visible from the ankles upwards due to the original level being lower than the excavated floor
Believe what you will. Sightings are many and varied I will stay open minded Generally I believe that once you die that’s it Perhaps you need the so called gift to see these apparitions

Roman soldiers marching through a pub and nt stopping for a pint?

I've heard the tale about the soldiers.

 

[oldwheels]

Grace Dieu priore near Belton Leicestershire was dissolved in 1538 The prioress body was reinterred at the graveyard at Belton Parish church On night the bus from Loughborough to Ashby stopped at Belton Lane endThe bus driver reported that he stopped to pick up a passenger dressed in white but no one got on the bus He checked out side but found no one.There had been reports of sittings in the past.The theory was it was the prioress visiting the priory to check on the nuns.Myself and my mate used to visit the Charnwood section CTCclub room at Peggs Green.on return to Loughborough we passed the priory we both peddled a bit faster .We both agreed there was an eerie atmosphere particularly on dark misty nights when passing the priory

Iwas reading a book Haunted Yorkshire There had been reported sightings of Roman soldiers marching through a pub but the images only showed just above ankle level their feet not being visible.During renovations at the pub the floor was taken up and a Roman pavement was found and thought to be part of a Roman street possibly part of a marching route The theory was that the apparitions we’re only visible from the ankles upwards due to the original level being lower than the excavated floor
Believe what you will. Sightings are many and varied I will stay open minded Generally I believe that once you die that’s it Perhaps you need the so called gift to see these apparitions

Roman soldiers marching through a pub and nt stopping for a pint?

I tend to agree that we are just complicated organisms and cease to exist when some vital part fails.
Stories are made up to comfort ourselves that we must be in some way immortal.
However the mysteries remain of strange unexplainable happenings which I have experienced.
We did have a "ghost car" here which I have seen and even stopped in a passing place for as I expected it to come past at a blind corner. There is likely some sort of logical explanation but it could not have gone anywhere without a further sighting. Other people have also reported on this sighting but not recently.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Our walk went well, most of it off road. Walked past the sundial where you become the gnomon, if you stand on the flagstone that corresponds to the current month then your shadow points to the time of day. A couple of pints of Crop Circle at the Vine before we headed in to Wimborne. I caught the bus home after walking 11 miles, Mrs Tenkaykev is walking back.

 

[ColinJ]

One time when my mum had been in hospital for about 6 months (!) my sister went to visit her. It was bad enough to be stuck there for so long, but after getting one hospital-acquired infection after another ma was basically in solitary confinement. There was a small window from her room to the corridor. The window had curtains for privacy but those were often left open during the day so our mum could actually see something other than just the wall opposite her bed***.

Ma was quite agitated. She told my sister that our father had just paid her a visit. Given that he had died 8 years earlier, this seemed unlikely... Questioning revealed that the man had not actually come into the room - he had merely smiled back at mum when she smiled at him as he walked down the corridor past the window. Was this a worrying sign of mental decline in ma? What on earth was she going on about?

Then a couple of nurses appeared and asked my sister if she could give them 15 minutes to do tests etc.

Sis went off to the hospital cafe and sat down with a sandwich and a coffee. She was looking around at the other visitors when...



... OUR LONG-DEAD FATHER WALKED IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She almost spat out her coffee! No, it wasn't a ghost, but this stranger really DID look a lot like our dad had done as an old man.

So, that time ma was definitely NOT seeing things that weren't there. We weren't entirely convinced on the next visit though, when she announced that there had been 2 drunken sailors sitting on top of the door, knocking back rum, and singing sea shanties to her...



*** Whichever genius had planned the layout of the rooms hadn't considered that patients might actually like to be able to look out of the exterior windows to the hospital grounds! The beds faced the wrong way.

 

[Mo1959]

Another walk done. That wind is perishing now. Chummed a lady for a bit with her own black lab and a neighbour’s yellow lab. Always nice to have some canine company. Big mug of tea now and The Repair Shop at 4.30.

 

[classic33]

No what's in the parcel is going on my back and no it's not a back pack and it's yellow

Custard powder or a shirt!

 

[classic33]

Postmans been and gone and no parcel

Maybe he's using it.

 

[numbnuts]

Custard powder or a shirt!

Your warm, but not right