The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Morning. Bit cooler here today and more cloud. Walk done and some shopping on the way home. Breakfast now then I suppose I'd better attempt some housework and tidy the place up a bit as my old next door neighbours are coming up to Crieff for a week on Saturday and will be popping in.

The new mattress felt quite good last night. Looking at the Garmin graph of my sleep I actually seem to have remained still for a couple of periods rather than the usual wavy line of tossing and turning all night so that's good

 

[Juan Kog]

One from yesterdays ride , no not just a boring photo of a field of beans . I had stopped for a comfort break looked over the gate , and some one‘s day has not gone to plan . You will need to focus in and expand the centre of the picture.

 

[Mo1959]

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One from yesterdays ride , no not just a boring photo of a field of beans . I had stopped for a comfort break looked over the gate , and some one‘s day has not gone to plan . You will need to focus in and expand the centre of the picture.

Light plane come down? ........and someone's lost their beanie

 

[PaulSB]

Good day to you all. Cloudy and cool this morning. Came downstairs at 4.40am to find Mrs P watching Corrie. Couldn't sleep and is now sound asleep in the spare room.

50/50 on the possibility of rain. 🤔 I have a colour wash going, whites waiting to go and 🤞 I can hang it all out. I'll dust and tidy downstairs till Mrs P appears then full on housework.

Some planting to do on the allotment which is great timing as we are due for cool day tomorrow and then a week of sun but only 18/19⁰C.

My purple sprouting has begun to sprout. Hurrah I hear you cheer - nope it's only 6" tall and for some reason is bolting. We have wooly aphid in our box hedges. Not sure how to approach this one.

 

[PaulSB]

Morning. Bit cooler here today and more cloud. Walk done and some shopping on the way home. Breakfast now then I suppose I'd better attempt some housework and tidy the place up a bit as my old next door neighbours are coming up to Crieff for a week on Saturday and will be popping in.

The new mattress felt quite good last night. Looking at the Garmin graph of my sleep I actually seem to have remained still for a couple of periods rather than the usual wavy line of tossing and turning all night so that's good
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From what you've said in the past that looks pretty good.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Morning. Bit cooler here today and more cloud. Walk done and some shopping on the way home. Breakfast now then I suppose I'd better attempt some housework and tidy the place up a bit as my old next door neighbours are coming up to Crieff for a week on Saturday and will be popping in.

The new mattress felt quite good last night. Looking at the Garmin graph of my sleep I actually seem to have remained still for a couple of periods rather than the usual wavy line of tossing and turning all night so that's good
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I have the 245 which has had some new features added recently. When I selected " Run" in the activity just now a screen popped up that said " Today's suggestion, Recovery, 20 minutes at 9:15/km Pace: and the next screen explained " This run avoids too much strain given your poor sleep last night "
I've been really impressed with the various coaching / training plans. When I used to train for races I would follow a schedule with variations of " long run, hill run, speedwork, recovery run" . Now training plans are built in to the watch which is monitoring your sleep/stress levels, your pace and distance in the runs, and your heart rate and heart rate recovery and using those data to modify the training plan " on the fly " 😎

 

[Juan Kog]

Light plane come down? ........and someone's lost their beanie

Helicopter, and no sign of any activity round it . Maybe some one sitting inside guarding it .

 

[GM]

Morning all...Woke up in a panic, what pillock forgot to put the bins out last night. So there I was in my Jim jams at 7 o/c wheeling the bins down the driveway. Panic over all is well, back in bed with my tea doing my daily challenge puzzles.

Have a good day folks!

 

[Mo1959]

I have the 245 which has had some new features added recently. When I selected " Run" in the activity just now a screen popped up that said " Today's suggestion, Recovery, 20 minutes at 9:15/km Pace: and the next screen explained " This run avoids too much strain given your poor sleep last night "
I've been really impressed with the various coaching / training plans. When I used to train for races I would follow a schedule with variations of " long run, hill run, speedwork, recovery run" . Now training plans are built in to the watch which is monitoring your sleep/stress levels, your pace and distance in the runs, and your heart rate and heart rate recovery and using those data to modify the training plan " on the fly " 😎

Just checked mine and it suggests rest.............suits me!

 

[PaulSB]

On the subject of wearing a tracker watch in bed. I did this out of interest when I first got mine. Problem I have is if I wear a watch at night it tends to wake me up or keep me awake.

Do @Mo1959 and @Tenkaykev not find them uncomfortable?

 

[Dave7]

Morning all...Woke up in a panic, what pillock forgot to put the bins out last night. So there I was in my Jim jams at 7 o/c wheeling the bins down the driveway. Panic over all is well, back in bed with my tea doing my daily challenge puzzles.

Have a good day folks!

Sod's law says the bins won't be collected till 12. 00.......do let us know
Ours are getting later by the week (2 weeks to be precise).

 

[Mo1959]

On the subject of wearing a tracker watch in bed. I did this out of interest when I first got mine. Problem I have is if I wear a watch at night it tends to wake me up or keep me awake.

Do @Mo1959 and @Tenkaykev not find them uncomfortable?

Nope..........it's just a big watch. I wear mine 24/7 and it has great battery life depending on how often I use the gps to actually record runs and walks. Must get around a week even recording a couple of runs. Love it. Continuous heart rate recording too which is great for noticing if your resting rate has gone up and maybe needing to rest up, etc.

It's the Fenix I have which is really quite chunky but it doesn't bother me at all.

 

[pawl]

Turns my neighbours are a right load of bar stewards

I decided to go out in the front garden after lunch to do some light gardening. Got rid of an Oak tree sapling that had decided to grow 1 inch from the house - and some brambles
then decided to tackle the bushes by the road
just trim a few bits and decide what sort of device I need to lower the whole thing by a few feet with minimal effort and lots of electricity

anyway some of it needs the loppers - which have disappeared - but OK - I was thinking of giving in and going in for a cuppa anyway

When the bloke opposite comes back from golf so we get talking

bar steward offer to lend me his loppers - which extend so are better than mine

SO NOW i HAVE TO KEEP AT IT FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR SO
or look ungrateful


so I carry on - reluctantly

30 minutes later the bloke next door pulls up with his wife

and the absolute bar steward offer to get his - even longer - loppers - and a ladder - and help me sort out the taller bits


so I now have to carry on working for ANOTHER HOUR - or look like an ungrateful prat




what a load of bar stewards - I was only planning on 30 minutes of weeding and some light trimming

ALL BLEEDIN AFTERNOON DOING MANUAL WORK!!!!

I chose IT as a career because it involves sitting and drinking coffee - if I wanted to do manual labour I would have chosen a differnent option!!!

Play silly beggars and ask him how to use them

 

[classic33]

Morning. Bit cooler here today and more cloud. Walk done and some shopping on the way home. Breakfast now then I suppose I'd better attempt some housework and tidy the place up a bit as my old next door neighbours are coming up to Crieff for a week on Saturday and will be popping in.

The new mattress felt quite good last night. Looking at the Garmin graph of my sleep I actually seem to have remained still for a couple of periods rather than the usual wavy line of tossing and turning all night so that's good
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What were you doing around half two?

 

[pawl]

On the subject of wearing a tracker watch in bed. I did this out of interest when I first got mine. Problem I have is if I wear a watch at night it tends to wake me up or keep me awake.

Do @Mo1959 and @Tenkaykev not find them uncomfortable?

If I wore my Apple Watch in bed I’d keep waking up to check if I’m asleep or the stand for one minute would wake me up telling me to stand for one minute