The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I was at it at 03.25.
It were a good dream

I'm saying nowt!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Thanks - apart from the fact that I absolutely detest football.

And me, the balls the wrong shape and mostly just gets kicked about.

 

[ColinJ]

I've just done my good deed for the weekend... Some of you may remember me complaining about my wheelie bin going missing a year or two back? Well, this time it was the turn of other people in the neighbourhood.

The bin, er, operatives*** walk down the back alleys collecting the bins, and take them to various collection points to be emptied into the wagon. They never bring the bins back; we have to walk down the alleys to collect them.

The bins were done on Friday morning and I noticed that a couple of bins were left on the pavement outside my house. That is NOT where they are normally left, and it had obviously caused some confusion to the owners of the bins.

One of the bins had a house number on it which suggested that it could have come from 3 or 4 different local streets. I didn't feel like wandering about trying to track down which household that bin came from, and the other didn't even have a number. What I realised though was that where the bins were standing was not visible to the other streets. I moved them a few metres down the street so they would be visible from up and down the alleys. Within 5 minutes somebody came and collected one of them. I haven't checked to see if it was the numbered one.



*** They do actually all seem to be men, but we aren't supposed to call them 'binmen' these days!

 

[classic33]

I've just done my good deed for the weekend... Some of you may remember me complaining about my wheelie bin going missing a year or two back? Well, this time it was the turn of other people in the neighbourhood.

The bin, er, operatives*** walk down the back alleys collecting the bins, and take them to various collection points to be emptied into the wagon. They never bring the bins back; we have to walk down the alleys to collect them.

The bins were done on Friday morning and I noticed that a couple of bins were left on the pavement outside my house. That is NOT where they are normally left, and it had obviously caused some confusion to the owners of the bins.

One of the bins had a house number on it which suggested that it could have come from 3 or 4 different local streets. I didn't feel like wandering about trying to track down which household that bin came from, and the other didn't even have a number. What I realised though was that where the bins were standing was not visible to the other streets. I moved them a few metres down the street so they would be visible from up and down the alleys. Within 5 minutes somebody came and collected one of them. I haven't checked to see if it was the numbered one.



*** They do actually all seem to be men, but we aren't supposed to call them 'binmen' these days!

Waste Operatives these days, even though they don't operate the waste.

 

[ColinJ]

I've done the same as yesterday, still it's another day nearly over

There is a certain lack of logic in your approach...

You sound like you are so fed up with each day that you try to get it over with as soon as possible, by going to bed at the start of the evening. Unfortunately, that means you will be dumped into another day in the middle of the night and have to start putting up with that one even sooner!

 

[ColinJ]

BTW, NN... I know you are fed up at the moment so I am not trying to make jokes about you. I just think that going to bed earlier and earlier every day isn't the answer.

I've got the opposite problem... I'm going to bed later and later. It is after sunrise now and then I am not waking up until 11:00, having missed a good part of the day.

 

[classic33]

I've done the same as yesterday, still it's another day nearly over

Dunnothin.
Bet you had breakfast though.

There is a certain lack of logic in your approach...

You sound like you are so fed up with each day that you try to get it over with as soon as possible, by going to bed at the start of the evening. Unfortunately, that means you will be dumped into another day in the middle of the night and have to start putting up with that one even sooner!

I did say the night hours are the best ones, along with the early hours. But he seems to enjoy daylight.

 

[Dirk]

'Tis a tad warm 'ere.
Thermometer sensor is in the shade.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Been busy - painted a hanging basket stand that my wife uses with lanterns holding candles - it was getting rusty and needed a good coat of paint after a rub down
Then sorted out the washing
Then spent a long shile trying to work out how in the name of $deity the hanging basket thing goes back together!

Just come back from a ride - really nice when moving - really sweaty when I had to slow down or stop!


must be nearly time to put dinner on - Roast has been abandoned - I have been told it is too warm - which is strange because it is in the fridge!!!
(sorry)

 

[classic33]

There is a certain lack of logic in your approach...

You sound like you are so fed up with each day that you try to get it over with as soon as possible, by going to bed at the start of the evening. Unfortunately, that means you will be dumped into another day in the middle of the night and have to start putting up with that one even sooner!

Don't most, if not all days, start and end(or should that be end and start) in the night?

 

[ColinJ]

I did say the night hours are the best ones, along with the early hours. But he seems to enjoy daylight.

I, OTOH, am apparently becoming a bat... I am up throughout the hours of darkness, and I haven't opened the blackout curtains in this room for several YEARS!

I don't like the feeling that pedestrians can look in. Sometimes there are kids hanging around on the pavement outside, right by the window.

At least at this time of the year I have the internal door open. It is a nice 21C in here. In the winter, the door has to be kept shut or I'd freeze!

Eh, what's that... Alarm going off on my phone? YIKES... I'm Zooming at 17:30 - where's the tablet!

 

[ColinJ]

Don't most, if not all days, start and end(or should that be end and start) in the night?

It depends how you define 'night'. I think of 8-9 pm as early to mid-evening!

 

[classic33]

It depends how you define 'night'. I think of 8-9 pm as early to mid-evening!

The dark part of the day, whatever the weather, usually coincides with the hours starting with 22, 23 and 0.

Did you know,
There is no nighttime in Australia.

 

[classic33]

Been busy - painted a hanging basket stand that my wife uses with lanterns holding candles - it was getting rusty and needed a good coat of paint after a rub down
Then sorted out the washing
Then spent a long shile trying to work out how in the name of $deity the hanging basket thing goes back together!

Just come back from a ride - really nice when moving - really sweaty when I had to slow down or stop!


must be nearly time to put dinner on - Roast has been abandoned - I have been told it is too warm - which is strange because it is in the fridge!!!
(sorry)

It's keeping cool, what else.

 

[PaulSB]

The dark part of the day, whatever the weather, usually coincides with the hours starting with 22, 23 and 0.

Did you know,
There is no nighttime in Australia.

No, didn't know this. Please explain.