The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Wonder if he proposed

Probably - but you don't know what he was proposing.

 

[Dirk]

Had a walk on Dunster beach and a wander around Watchet this morning.
Dropped of else lunch at the pub just along from the CL and had a small carvery.

 

[Mo1959]

I am awaiting Hermes with a Wiggle delivery.......between 1 and 3. The tyres on my Specialized road bike looked a bit suspect with some cracking, so not taking any risks. Just got some Schwalbe Ones coming to put on. I usually stick to either them or Rubinos.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Did an 11k run this morning, I’d just got back when Mrs Tenkaykev messaged me to say she’d finished her gym session and did I fancy meeting for coffee at the recently reopened “ Karma “ Café Bar. We decided on lunch which was outstanding, i had Halloumi wrap which comes with salad, when it arrived there were chips too, always a bonus ! Lovely place, lovely fresh food and lovely staff. I’m just about ready for a snooze now.

 

[Mo1959]

Did an 11k run this morning, I’d just got back when Mrs Tenkaykev messaged me to say she’d finished her gym session and did I fancy meeting for coffee at the recently reopened “ Karma “ Café Bar. We decided on lunch which was outstanding, i had Halloumi wrap which comes with salad, when it arrived there were chips too, always a bonus ! Lovely place, lovely fresh food and lovely staff. I’m just about ready for a snooze now.
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That looks lovely.

 

[numbnuts]

I've just heard the beeps on my bread maker, not heard them before, it just goes to show how poor my hearing was, we take hearing for granted and I was bought off with £2000 compensation in the late 80s( that would be worth £5,305 today), still with the aids I have got some of it back, and I can still use my headphones as well.

 

[Tenkaykev]

That looks lovely.

I realised why the wraps were wrapped in paper when I removed it completely instead of folding it down and ended up with the dressing oozing out of the bottom of the wrap and into my lap 🤔

 

[Dave7]

You say that as though it's something bad.

Moi ??

 

[Lee_M]

Afternoon all.

Got up to bright sunshine so thought I should attempt our club Tour de Velo route.

Only 32 miles and 2000 feet of climbing.

Knew within 5 minutes it was a mistake I was completely empty.
Absolutely no energy.

Definitely didn't feel like 2000 feet, even my wahoo bike computer thought I'd stopped at one point I was going so slowly!

Still I managed it eventually, and so I can recharge at our first night out at the local tonight. Hope I have enough energy to walk to 200 yards there!

 

[classic33]

Moi ??

Ay, thee

 

[ColinJ]

I'm back from getting my second jab. The first time I was in and out in 5 minutes. This time there was a queue of about 20 people ahead of me but the process was being handled very efficiently so I was still done in only about 15 minutes.

NO reaction of any sort so far, but it has only been 3 hours. If I do get a reaction, I'd like to be over it by the weekend because I have my forum walk to do on Saturday.

I've got hearing aids.......my car sounds like a bag of nails and I can here the indicators and the keyboard makes clicking noises, I think they are too loud so I'll read the book on how to turn them down and I also have an app to play with

My dad seemed to have gone deaf in old age. He had the TV turned up horribly loud and couldn't follow conversations. In his case, it turned out to be a seriously bad earwax problem. A determined district nurse finally managed to unblock his ears. Instead of being pleased, he started moaning about how bad his car engine sounded... WHY hadn't we told him about it!

I've just heard the beeps on my bread maker, not heard them before, it just goes to show how poor my hearing was, we take hearing for granted and I was bought off with £2000 compensation in the late 80s( that would be worth £5,305 today), still with the aids I have got some of it back, and I can still use my headphones as well.

I can't hear lots of things that other people do. When watching TV dramas I never hear phones going off. A character will stop in mid-sentence and I realise that they are about to take their phone out to answer it. Even if I wind the action back and turn the sound up to 4 or 5 times as loud, I often still can't hear the phone ringing.

That's what comes of getting drunk when you are 20 and sticking your head inside the flared horn of a PA speaker at the front of the stage at a rock concert! (It was very loud at the back of the venue , so doing that probably caused instant and permanent hearing loss... )

 

[Dave7]

Hearing loss.......
I have one hearing aid but don't need it all the time.
It's not so much the sound volume I struggle with but the pitch. eg I can put the tv on and need it but for the next program its fine.
Birds 'twittering' I struggle with.
My son......I cannot understand him without the aid. I know its just me as others can hear him fine.
I worked a heavy press in the early 70s. No such thing as ear defenders back then.

 

[oldwheels]

Have to admit, poor sleep does worry me a bit too but not sure what I can do about it. I've tried all the usual suggestions and don't want pills. The strange thing is I rarely actually feel sleepy.

For a while when I worked for the Post Office I stared at 4.30 in the morning. Went out for an evening walk with my girl friend and we sat down under a tree at one point. I fell asleep which must have impressed her as she later became my wife. My normal starting time was six o'clock with a 4 mile cycle to work.
When farming milking stared at half past five so I was always an early bird.

 

[oldwheels]

Forecast said sunny intervals and light winds. Should have said heavy showers interspersed with light rain.
Got a call to go for a chest xray in Craignure. Decide that since I had 35 minutes for the 21 miles it should be ok to take the appointment. Forgot about the dozy tourists so got there with one minute to spare as one would not pull over to let me past and it took 5 miles before I got a chance to overtake.
We had a new police sargeant at one time who decreed that anyone harassing tourists by flashing lights and/or blowing horns would be prosecuted for something or other. After a month this policy was quietly abandoned as he found the realities of driving here.
"I say Mabel why is that car behind blowing his horn and flashing his lights at us? Perhaps he thinks we are going too fast. Oh look there is a bird on that post. I'll just stop for a moment or two to get a better look at it after all we are on holiday and they can jolly well wait."

 

[ColinJ]

It's not so much the sound volume I struggle with but the pitch. eg I can put the tv on and need it but for the next program its fine.
Birds 'twittering' I struggle with.

Someone was talking to me about how much they were enjoying the sound of some birds twittering nearby. I hadn't a sound from them!

My son......I cannot understand him without the aid. I know its just me as others can hear him fine.

I know some people whose voices I struggle to understand. Other people talking at about the same intensity are fine. I have certain pitches that I am almost completely deaf at, but either side is fine. That would correspond to the cells in the ear tuned to those frequencies being damaged or dead.

I just had an idea, but a quick search revealed that it has already been done - frequency-shifting hearing aids. Old types just made sounds louder, which is not much use if they are at frequencies that you can't hear at all. These fancy new hearing aids can shift the pitch of sounds down to frequencies that you CAN hear. Clever!