The Retirement Thread

[Dirk]

Just trimmed MrsD's bush.
Looking a lot neater now.
Pulled some onions and garlic from the garden for tonight's curry.
New neighbour's been around enquiring what energy company we use.
We gave him a code which gives up both £50 if he signs up to Octopus.
I do like free money.

 

[classic33]

Good morning all.
I wish to report a heavy sleep last night. Didn't even wake for a wee wee till 0500. MrsD is saying I should go back but once awake that, sadly, seems to be it.
The sun beds are out so I will probably crash out about 1000. NumbNuts, you would be at home in our side garden......totally private and you could let your dingle dangle to your hearts content
Need to do an Aldi dash when they open at 0900.......I really don't fancy it but I walked to the Spar yesterday and they didn't have what I wanted.
I fancy a BBQ but it l, for 2 people, when your appetite is poor it seems a faff. We shall see.

Not even all the way home?

 

[Mo1959]

I was going to go out on my bike today. However my grandson just arrived and he said the roads are manic. Everyone from Brum is here. They don't know the roads so brake every 3 seconds. They won't overtake anything especially tractors and they slow down to look at anything.

I don't think I will bother thanks but no thanks

I’m thinking about it now the sun has broken through but will just be a short one on the quieter back roads if I do.

 

[pawl]

The Co-op was eerily quiet too. No doubt the minute the sun appears it will suddenly get busier everywhere.

I have just ordered a latex mattress to try. I haven't felt really good for a few years now and sometimes wonder if I could be affected by the gasses from my existing memory foam mattress. Clutching at straws........it's probably just old age. Lol.

clutching at straws You will be if your sleeping on a straw mattress 😫😫😫

 

[PaulSB]

Hmmmmm..........lemmings. Why are people so stupid? Rode over the M61 and M6 bridges between 08.45 and 09.15 - empty. Rode back over the same at 12.15/30. Standstill. M65 is rammed as well. Chorley A6 jammed with people "avoiding the traffic" on the M6/61. GET UP EARLIER!!!!

Myself and a riding buddy stop about 0.5 miles from my home. Quick natter and then head our separate ways. Set off again and just round the bend traffic stopped. This was the queue to get on to the M65 about one mile away. It took me 12 minutes to ride 0.5 miles as the road is too narrow to do anything but join the queue. Cost me 0.4 off my average! 😂

 

[PaulSB]

Police locally are saying 70 minute delay M6/61 northbound around Preston!!! 😳🥴😳

 

[welsh dragon]

Apparently in Mach it was taking people 30 minutes just to get in the door of the Co Op

 

[numbnuts]

I'm bored

 

[12boy]

Lots to do today...23C with light breezes. A little planting, maybe get the landscaping cloth down where the gravel will go, a lot of watering, some stretches and core, etc etc. Here it is Memorial Day to honor those who served in the Armed Forces which usually signals the opening of the road to Muddy Mountain, which is right behind Casper mountain, 6 miles south of Casa Squalida, mine own home. I love Muddy but If I go up there it will be alone since neither wife nor dog can deal well with a vigorous hike at 8k ft above sea level. They miss it too.Today will be a zoo at the lake and on the mountain and possibly the bike path too. There will be many extremely sunburned folks tonight. Probably more than a few drunken fights and car wrecks as well. Do we Wyomingites know how to have a good time or what?
Be safe and well.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Back from a hugely enjoyable offroad canter, cycle path to Penicuik, looping through the grounds of Penicuik House to the lane to Silverburn, then over the Pentlands via the Red Road and a loop of the Yellow Road to Buteland on the other side, back along the Water of Leith from Balerno. Haar to start with but had dispersed by the time I reached Penicuik, temp a very pleasant 17°. A few people out but not many.

 

[Dave7]

Police locally are saying 70 minute delay M6/61 northbound around Preston!!! 😳🥴😳

I can't think of anything that would get me on the motorway today

 

[ColinJ]

I'm bored

What do want us to do about it - entertain you?!

Go for a walk, a run, a bike ride... Plan a route for a future walk, run, or bike ride...

Learn a foreign language.

Read a book.

Teach yourself computer programming and then write some apps.

Play some computer games by yourself. Go online and play a random stranger at chess, backgammon, [other game of your choice]

Listen to some music. Play some music. Learn to play an instrument.

Watch a movie or start binge-watching an award-winning TV series.

Cook something nice. And then eat it!

There are thousands of interesting things to do...

There is absolutely no excuse for anybody not trapped in a cave or in solitary confinement without access to the outside world to ever be bored!

There is nothing so boring as people who say that they are bored! It's rather a touchy subject for me since my sister's husband once sighed deeply and announced on Christmas Day to his wife, his children, his parents-in-law, and me that he was 'bored'. I had to leave the room to stop myself saying "Well you shouldn't have got married, or fathered any children, and then you wouldn't have had to go to boring places and do boring things with boring people like us!"

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Forth load in the machine, second load on the line, first load dry, I've cleaned the car and checked to cars fluid levels this afternoon, now sat having a, I might start the polishing later.

 

[classic33]

Forth load in the machine, second load on the line, first load dry, I've cleaned the car and checked to cars fluid levels this afternoon, now sat having a, I might start the polishing later.

Firth load is still wet I assume.

 

[Dirk]

Just heard that a character from my youth - Birmingham Outlaw biker 'Big Tom' has died.
Met him a few times over the years, but it must be 35 years since I last saw him.
Making me feel old.