The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

A friend just sent me a photo from when were members of the “ Coffin Dodgers” running Club. Honorary chairman was Terry Wogan as the lad who started the club used to work with him. Fond memories of some fun events and socialising in the bar afterwards 🍺🍺😁
Sadly 50% of the lads in the photo no longer meet the entry criteria 😥

 

[classic33]

I give up, just rang the hire company "the said car will be picked up at the end of the working day which could be from now up the 20:00 hrs" a bloody whole day wasted.............

Hide it somewhere, bugger off out/fall asleep/go deaf and when they get in touch Tuesday, tell them you thought they'd taken it.

Before doing any of the above, knock your phone off. Veerrry important!

 

[classic33]

A friend just sent me a photo from when were members of the “ Coffin Dodgers” running Club. Honorary chairman was Terry Wogan as the lad who started the club used to work with him. Fond memories of some fun events and socialising in the bar afterwards 🍺🍺😁
Sadly 50% of the lads in the photo no longer meet the entry criteria 😥

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Which one is Terry Wogan?

 

[oldwheels]

Nah.....I really don't mind the Grockles.
They bring money into the village and they are generally here for the right reasons - to enjoy the beauty of the area and to have a happy time.
The busy season is only about 8 weeks. We tend to go inland then.
The rest of the time we have it to ourselves.

8 weeks! Already the ferries are booked to capacity and it will remain that way until the end of October. I cannot make day trips to Oban or even Fort William anymore as I cannot guarantee getting home.
Many of the holiday homes advise those booking to bring as much of their own food as possible and as many as can get off with it will free camp.
We managed fine with a modest number of visitors but those who came here to make money off them now demand more and more. The rot started with the introduction of sea eagles and we are now captive in a theme park where tourists are expected to have priority.
I am not alone in being unhappy and there is a rising tide of resentment among those who lived here before we were effectively taken over by incomers who want to make money from the tourists.
From this morning's observation of queues for one small ferry and overcrowding on single track roads many of the tourists will not be having a happy time.

 

[Dirk]

8 weeks! Already the ferries are booked to capacity and it will remain that way until the end of October. I cannot make day trips to Oban or even Fort William anymore as I cannot guarantee getting home.
Many of the holiday homes advise those booking to bring as much of their own food as possible and as many as can get off with it will free camp.
We managed fine with a modest number of visitors but those who came here to make money off them now demand more and more. The rot started with the introduction of sea eagles and we are now captive in a theme park where tourists are expected to have priority.
I am not alone in being unhappy and there is a rising tide of resentment among those who lived here before we were effectively taken over by incomers who want to make money from the tourists.
From this morning's observation of queues for one small ferry and overcrowding on single track roads many of the tourists will not be having a happy time.

I'd sell up and move somewhere less aggravating if I were in your shoes.

 

[PaulSB]

So I stayed home today. Cleaned the fridge, this was a serious priority, weeded, cut grass which is all quite productive.

Just had a message to say they did a sub six hour century averaging 16.8mph. 😳🥴 Very glad I stayed home.

 

[oldwheels]

I'd sell up and move somewhere less aggravating if I were in your shoes.

I would love to but cannot afford it. I could not get a loan and would have to buy before selling my existing house. Anyway the upheaval of a flitting is beyond me. I would consider renting on the mainland for the summer and return here for the winter.
On the subject of holiday homes rented to tourists the income from that goes off island as if you look at the ownership of such houses they are mostly in London or southern England somewhere. They often do not pay commercial rates either as they should.
You are not on an island so do not have the same problems as we do.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I agree that they should pay commercial rates - what else are they if not commercial premises???

Businesses really need to be made to contribute to the local economy - especially in this case.
I have never lived on an island but I can appreciate the difference between living 10 minutes from Tesco to having the nearest shop requiring proper planning.
Funny that so many people cannot see that

 

[PaulSB]

I agree that they should pay commercial rates - what else are they if not commercial premises???

Businesses really need to be made to contribute to the local economy - especially in this case.
I have never lived on an island but I can appreciate the difference between living 10 minutes from Tesco to having the nearest shop requiring proper planning.
Funny that so many people cannot see that

I completely agree. I was born a southerner though after 4 years in Yorkshire and 39 in Lancashire hope I qualify as northern.

Occasionally I have contact with folk I know in London and the south-east. I'm so glad I left, the thought of becoming like or adopting such attitudes as I encounter horrifies me.

That many of the owners live in the south comes as no surprise. They probably don't know where the island is.

Rant over. Sorry.

 

[classic33]

I completely agree. I was born a southerner though after 4 years in Yorkshire and 39 in Lancashire hope I qualify as northern.

Occasionally I have contact with folk I know in London and the south-east. I'm so glad I left, the thought of becoming like or adopting such attitudes as I encounter horrifies me.

That many of the owners live in the south comes as no surprise. They probably don't know where the island is.

Rant over. Sorry.

That explains why you find it cold from time to time!

 

[PaulSB]

That explains why you find it cold from time to time!

Brilliant! 😂😂😂

 

[Deleted member 1258]

We did something today we haven’t done for a while, we went out to lunch, normally I'd phone my Good Lady from town on a Friday then phone an order through to our favourite takeaway and pick it up on the way home from shopping, today I phoned her and suggested we go to Live, Laugh and Love Food on Beak Avenue then when I got home helped her into her wheelchair, walked down and treated her and the lad to lunch.

 

[gavroche]

Part one of the deal done, my wife and I ordered a new three piece suit to be delivered towards the end of June.
Part two is to go to the bike shop when they re-stock on new Treks and probably order one.
Savings are taking a beating.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Not long back from dropping our lad off at the station, we enjoyed having him down here and he was good company for my Good Lady, it was a good three days.

 

[PaulSB]

Part one of the deal done, my wife and I ordered a new three piece suit to be delivered towards the end of June.
Part two is to go to the bike shop when they re-stock on new Treks and probably order one.
Savings are taking a beating.

Savings are only worth something to the people you bequeath them to.