The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Tomorrow!

Bond, James Bond?

 

[PaulSB]

Bond, James Bond?

Never dies.......

 

[classic33]

Never dies.......

Never gets here either.

 

[rustybolts]

But he is an awful tv commentator though.

Well in all honesty you could not imagine him being an English teacher to university students !

 

[rustybolts]

I can't remember who, and it's many pages back, but one of our number wanted a Netflix film recommendation. We've just watched:

Yesterday

It's a wonderful, heart-warming, funny film by Danny Boyle. It should make people of our age smile.

Do watch.

Cheers for that ! it was me .I will watch it , Danny Boyle films are top notch

 

[ColinJ]

Whereabouts in Devon?

SE, near Exeter.

I am hoping to venture over to Dartmoor with my pal, and also (hopefully) up towards north Devon and Somerset. We'll have to see how the weather is and how my relatively unfit legs stand up to the hilly terrain.

My niece has just bought a house in Exmouth so we will ride over to check that out.

My other sister is staying in another beautiful old Devon cottage, in the hamlet of Cadbury. We went to see her this evening. It was really unnerving driving back along rollercoaster, twisty turny, singletrack lanes in the dark! One thing though - at least you get warning of vehicles coming the other way. Every driver we encountered knew how to use the passing places properly.

Here's a photograph taken on a shortish road ride this afternoon...

(Yes - I did manage to unship my chain from my wide/narrow chainring dragging the bike through undergrowth before we finally reached that more open hillside.)

Spot the road! I had seen a bridleway through some woods which suggested a shortcut from one side of a hill to the other. I wanted to check it out to see if it were doable on a road bike. Answer: only with a lot of pushing. It was horribly muddy in places and then I took us down the wrong trail through the trees. It eventually fizzled out to a hint of a path through vegetation. We got scratched by thorns and tired dragging our bikes through after us. Oops! We only got back on track right at the road that we had been heading for. It took us over an hour to cover 2 kms! My curiosity has been satisfied - we will leave that wood alone in future...

 

[PaulSB]

A police helicopter has been circling the village for at least 20 minutes. Searchlights trained on the ground.

I say at least as it woke me just after 3.00am. Bloody noisy!! The Issa Brothers live on the edge of the village and at first I thought it was their helicopter coming in to land.

Downstairs with a brew now.

 

[PaulSB]

The helicopter was finally out of earshot around 4.00am. Time to try for more sleep now.

 

[Dave7]

I was about to say "if anyone is up before me I will show my a*se in Burtons window", then I saw Chorley Paul's post grhhh gnash.
Woke at 0400 so got up.
Washed up from yesterdays spag bol.
Listening to Annie Lennox in concert now, waiting for our Tony with SoTS.

 

[rustybolts]

I was about to say "if anyone is up before me I will show my a*se in Burtons window", then I saw Chorley Paul's post grhhh gnash.
Woke at 0400 so got up.
Washed up from yesterdays spag bol.
Listening to Annie Lennox in concert now, waiting for our Tony with SoTS.

At Which branch of Burtons are you available for viewing ? and do we have to pre book and maintain social distancing also ?

 

[BoldonLad]

I was about to say "if anyone is up before me I will show my a*se in Burtons window", then I saw Chorley Paul's post grhhh gnash.
Woke at 0400 so got up.
Washed up from yesterdays spag bol.
Listening to Annie Lennox in concert now, waiting for our Tony with SoTS.

Listening to SoTS with Tony too

 

[BoldonLad]

I like this.

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Not the TDF, but, we were once that "incredibly confused member of the public". We were driving through rural France, around a place called Pujols, in our Motorhome, heading for our next stop-over. All was very pleasant, when, at the next junction, we encountered a cycle race, in progress. There were motorcycle outriders, and Marshalls evident, and, they waved us into a gap in the procession of bicycles, camera cars, motorcycles etc. We drove at a steady speed for several miles, with spectators waving and cheering (or, should that be jeering?) at the roadside. We eventually came to the finish line, where we passed under the inflatable arch.

All part of life's rich tapestry

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Good morning folks, got up and there was an ambulance parked outside, I think they were next door, it was amusing watching our neighbour, dressed in his best whistle and flute, wriggling his car out from behind the ambulance.

 

[Drago]

I have risen!

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Yay ......it's Fish Saturday!
For some reason, we didn't manage to do FF yesterday - so it's been put back to today.
Just planning our next getaway in July. I've found a couple of potential sites in Wiltshire & Dorset which look promising.
Now, do we go for 1, 2 or 3 weeks?