The Retirement Thread

[Deleted member 1258]

Just wondering what time it says in your wife’s care document, I am assuming she has been assessed by social services?. My mums time was nominally 8 plus or minus half an hour but most days they came at 6.30 or 7. Which was fine as she used to wake up at 5 most mornings. The only time I had to step in was when they started coming at 9.30 as that was just to late . The trouble is the time slot from seven to nine is the slot most people need.
I sorted it by arranging a meeting between the care company, social services and and myself and we came to a compromise that suited everyone and my mum didn’t have another problem with them .

All the documents we have just say A M, no time specified, yes she's been assessed but we don't have the assessment here.

 

[classic33]

That reminds me of a news report yesterday about that poor British woman murdered by her Greek husband.

At the time, the husband's story was that the couple's home had been invaded by foreign burglars who had allegedly tied up the man and then beaten the woman to death. I have probably been watching too many cop shows and documentaries but I immediately thought that sounded very fishy. If I were a murderous thug who had just murdered someone, the last thing I would do is leave their partner alive in the next room to identify me later...

Kudos to the Greek detectives for not falling for the story. They investigated and found that the woman's fitness tracker showed that she had been alive for hours after she had allegedly been killed, and the husband's phone records showed that he had been moving around for hours after he had supposedly been tied up. Oh, and the burglars had taken the memory cards from the CCTV security system hours after they had supposedly left...

The cops interrogated the husband for hours and he finally confessed to the killing. Hopefully, they didn't use any illegal 'persuasion' to extract that confession, so it will stand up in court.

The thing that I wonder about is how he tied himself up afterwards...? Did he get someone else to help him, or did he devise some clever slip knot and pull the knot tight with his teeth, something like that?


Here I am again just hanging around in case my new wheels turn up. I have a very strong suspicion that I won't get them until Monday now but I can't take the chance of missing the delivery if I am wrong.

When I rang the shop yesterday it was about an hour and a half before closing time and the lad I spoke to said that he was busy preparing the day's outgoing parcels for collection. I bet mine didn't get done in time and that he is doing it today instead... (I'd be very pleased to be proved wrong!)

There is discussion elsewhere on the forum about shortages of bike parts. That definitely seems to be the case. I searched for ages for those wheels. Normally I would have found scores of different stores with them in stock, but I only found 2 or 3 in the UK. A few in Germany had them but I didn't want the post-Brexit hassle. (One German company said that they try to get orders to the UK in good time but sometimes goods are being delayed for a week or so. No use to me, because I want to be riding the wheels before then !)

Practice perhaps/
https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-Yourself-up-With-Rope#Tying-up-Your-Whole-Body

 

[Tenkaykev]

Assuming it has one it soundsike the thermo couple to me.
I used to maintain and repair**thermostatically controlled heating thingies for bitumen boilers. When they refused to fire up 90% of the time it was the thermo couples. If you can get to it, it should be a simple replacement.
** if that makes me sound clever.....I am not.

All sorted now Dave, from your message did you work at the Tarmac plants?

 

[ColinJ]

Practice perhaps/
https://www.wikihow.com/Tie-Yourself-up-With-Rope#Tying-up-Your-Whole-Body

The mighty power of the internet!!!

There is probably a website somewhere telling you how to get away with murder. Hint to would-be assassins - the cops will probably find out that you frequented the site after you become a suspect!

The number of people who get caught after Googling "Best acid for dissolving a body" or "How to make a bomb"...

 

[classic33]

The mighty power of the internet!!!

There is probably a website somewhere telling you how to get away with murder. Hint to would-be assassins - the cops will probably find out that you frequented the site after you become a suspect!

The number of people who get caught after Googling "Best acid for dissolving a body" or "How to make a bomb"...

Get the book, just don't order it if it's not on the shelves. And pay with cash not card.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Thermo couple.
Does that make me clever or what

To be fair I thought that too. I've worked on all sorts of Electrical kit.
One memorable situation comes to mind. Our workshop was a in a big factory unit and the heating was provided by a couple of Hamworthy Heaters which are basically a Gas / Electric control unit with a very long pipe attached and a stainless steel reflector mounted behind to throw the heat downwards. These were mounted really high up on the wall and not easily accessible. We turned them on via a wall switch. They would occasionally go into lockout mode and we'd see the dreaded red light on the control unit. The reset button was, of course, mounted on the control unit high up on the wall...
Instead of going to all the faff of getting the extension ladders set up, we became dab hands at throwing a wire brush up at the controller and after a few tries we usually succeeded in hitting the reset button.😎

 

[Dave7]

All sorted now Dave, from your message did you work at the Tarmac plants?

No. Our company (Vulcanite) was part of Colas before being sold to Shell.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From my Facebook page this afternoon.

 

[Lee_M]

Morning all. Slow club ride this morning instead of tomorrow due to the forecast. Let's see if it really is slow or if we get more idiots riding off the front.

In other news Facebook seems full of Scots who seem to think 0-0 is a win

So back from our slow ride. Advertised at 12-14 mph, actual average was 15mph.
I didn't really have a problem with that, however I was dropped from the group on the fast run back, even though I was riding at 23mph.

I've now caused ructions because when I finally caught up at a junction I ignored them and rode home on my own, be interesting to see what the fall out is.

 

[12boy]

Good to see WD back.
An early ride again and then back into the bike shed to continue my struggle to clean up stuff. I have a bunch of toolboxes dedicated to bike parts which I will leave out and open as I encounter stuff which belongs in them. Then they will be put away. Tomorrow and Monday will be be cool and I will use that respite to weed the cursed garden. Mrs 12 wants to go out to the trout hatchery tomorrow, which is a nice place for a short walk and there is a place to view large trouts who I believe are breeding stock. It is located by a lot of red rocks and there was once a little town there called Bessemer which was the capitol of Wyoming in the late 1800s. An author, Owen Wister wrote a book, The Virginian, set in this area, which was a TV show by that name in the late 60s or so. One of those shows in which all the cowboys were clean shaven and neatly coiffed.
Be well and safe.

 

[ColinJ]

An author, Owen Wister wrote a book, The Virginian, set in this area, which was a TV show by that name in the late 60s or so. One of those shows in which all the cowboys were clean shaven and neatly coiffed.

I watched that as a teenager! I don't really remember much about it now though...

Ah - I just found that lots (all?) of the episodes are on YouTube...



That looks a bit familiar!

PS That's odd... How come it was in 16:9 (widescreen) format rather than the usual 1960s 4:3?

 

[Drago]

Ummm....headache! Feeling sh*t.
Dont tell me you watched the England game

I am many thi gs, but proud to say I'm not a footballist.

 

[Dave7]

Good to see WD back.
An early ride again and then back into the bike shed to continue my struggle to clean up stuff. I have a bunch of toolboxes dedicated to bike parts which I will leave out and open as I encounter stuff which belongs in them. Then they will be put away. Tomorrow and Monday will be be cool and I will use that respite to weed the cursed garden. Mrs 12 wants to go out to the trout hatchery tomorrow, which is a nice place for a short walk and there is a place to view large trouts who I believe are breeding stock. It is located by a lot of red rocks and there was once a little town there called Bessemer which was the capitol of Wyoming in the late 1800s. An author, Owen Wister wrote a book, The Virginian, set in this area, which was a TV show by that name in the late 60s or so. One of those shows in which all the cowboys were clean shaven and neatly coiffed.
Be well and safe.

12boy......you have lots to learn.
ALL goodie cowboys were clean shaven.
Tatty unshaven cowboys were all baddies.

 

[pawl]

Had a pleasant ride this morning Cloudy and a little chilly Longest ride this year 27 hilly miles

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I watched that as a teenager! I don't really remember much about it now though...

Ah - I just found that lots (all?) of the episodes are on YouTube...



That looks a bit familiar!

PS That's odd... How come it was in 16:9 (widescreen) format rather than the usual 1960s 4:3?

I remember that from the 1960's. It was also released on DVD around 2010, which might explain the wide screen format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginian_(TV_series)