The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

We had a fantastic route planned for today. It was either 100 or 130 depending on how we felt at the decision point.

Twenty minutes before the meet time we get the phone call. Granddaughter has a temperature of 38.1 and is coughing. She was coughing yesterday and it did cross my mind. She's going to be tested.

We are going for a test later and have started isolating.

🤞🤞

🙁🙁🙁

Here's for a negative, for you all.

 

[Tenkaykev]

That's what I like to hear. Keep it that way for another week or so please. I will be down to check it out soon!

That would be fast enough for the whole street - Mb/s!!

I am awake unfeasibly early to make final preparations for my Devon trip. I think I had better make a checklist or I could see myself forgetting several things. Just while typing that I remembered that I haven't put the mounts for my 2 GPS devices on the new bike. Various cables and chargers to locate. And so on...

Oh, and 2 shop visits.

Catch you later...

Oops a brain fart, I changed it from Meg to Gig as I’m used to computer storage / memory. It could have been worse / better if I’d used bytes instead of bits 😁

 

[Dave7]

We had a fantastic route planned for today. It was either 100 or 130 depending on how we felt at the decision point.

Twenty minutes before the meet time we get the phone call. Granddaughter has a temperature of 38.1 and is coughing. She was coughing yesterday and it did cross my mind. She's going to be tested.

We are going for a test later and have started isolating.

🤞🤞

🙁🙁🙁

Thoughts are with you Paul.
As you know, kids get all sorts of coughs and sniffles but with this virus you can't be too safe

 

[classic33]

"Knowledge is knowing that you can carry all of the shopping in at once. Wisdom is making multiple trips so that by the time you are done, other family members have put away most of the shopping."

 

[ColinJ]

"Knowledge is knowing that you can carry all of the shopping in at once. Wisdom is making multiple trips so that by the time you are done, other family members have put away most of the shopping."

Or in my case...

"Knowledge is knowing that you can carry all of the shopping yourself. Wisdom is remembering that you have a bad back and waiting for your pal to arrive so she can carry half of the shopping."

 

[Tenkaykev]

"Knowledge is knowing that you can carry all of the shopping in at once. Wisdom is making multiple trips so that by the time you are done, other family members have put away most of the shopping."

Knowledge is knowing first to the bar gets the round in. Wisdom is striding to reach the door first, so you can hold it open so your mates can enter before you.

 

[Dirk]

Knowledge is knowing first to the bar gets the round in. Wisdom is striding to reach the door first, so you can hold it open so your mates can enter before you.

I never seem to remember that!

 

[PaulSB]

Well I thought if I can't ride I'll go on the allotment. It's now wet and cold. We've been told we don't need to test today. If granddaughter is negative we don't have to test but if she's positive today counts as day one of isolation. Result is expected tomorrow.

Thank you the kind thoughts.

I see we have a new Brexit thread in N&CA. If I have to isolate there'll be plenty of entertainment.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

A momentous occasion, just returned the two library books I borrowed back in March 2020. I’ve not been able to do so before now, the libraries closed for lockdown and only reopened a couple of weeks ago.
Progress then.
But tbh I’d sooner the dentist reopened than the libraries. Last checkup was in Nov 2019.

 

[12boy]

34C with 20+ mph winds today but 27C with less wind and a shot at some rain for the rest of the week. Nice. 1 1/2 50 gallon trash cans of weeds pulled yesterday and probably another one this morning. Snow peas are shading my tomatoes so I will move a couple tomatoes to a vacant plastic whiskey barrel pot where they will get more sun and warmth. I hope they take off....it is a short growing season here.
Mrs 12 and I will go get a good meal somewhere today after her chemo. The steroids included in the chemo make her hungry which must be taken advantage of since normally her appetite is nil. My bet is she will opt for red chile enchiladas but it could be tempura. She may surprise me with gyros and greek salad.
Paul, I hope your granddaughter is ok.
NN, missing you, amigo.
Be safe and well.

 

[gavroche]

Morning all.

Not looked out of the window yet, but the better half tells me it's sunny in our bit of North Wales.

May do a homebrew

Your bit of North Wales is different from mine then as it has been raining a fine rain all day so far so Rhyl ride postponed till tomorrow now. Did a bit of decorating instead like painting door frames and skirting boards. 😠

 

[Lee_M]

Your bit of North Wales is different from mine then as it has been raining a fine rain all day so far so Rhyl ride postponed till tomorrow now. Did a bit of decorating instead like painting door frames and skirting boards. 😠

It started raining about 30 minutes ago, I think we've caught up with your weather.

Stuck in the garden bar now listening to music and drinking homebrew, it's a tough life.

 

[GM]

Your bit of North Wales is different from mine then as it has been raining a fine rain all day so far so Rhyl ride postponed till tomorrow now. Did a bit of decorating instead like painting door frames and skirting boards. 😠

Hope you weren't using Dulux One Coat!

 

[PaulSB]

Hope you weren't using Dulux One Coat!

😂😂👏

 

[Exlaser2]

Afternoon all . Just done my first ride in six months . Just a quick spin on my hybrid. God that was a hard 10 miles lol but one has to start somewhere. 😀
It’s going to be a hard road back to any kind of fitness.