The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Good morning folks, I've had an E-Mail from the Post Code Lottery? Apparently I've won a prize? In a prize draw? I shall have to carefully investigate, I do play the Postcode Lottery and haven't won for several years. But my first job this morning will be to load my Good Ladies tablet dispenser.

You've won the "big one".

 

[welsh dragon]

I wonder if people that got Covid19 also had these bugs as well but they were hidden by Covid19. Anything is possible I suppose. Now that so many have been jabbed the usual bugs are showing up.

 

[Dirk]

Just had a stroll down the village to pick up a newspaper, some stamps and a couple of sarnies.
Perfect Devon day here - 21° and .
Traffic was busy through the village and every other person in the shops was a Grockle.
Took a couple of piccies on my way back.

This new build went on the market the other week and sold in a couple of days.
No garden or garage, 4 bed detached and a poxy coloured front door - £600K.
We watched it being built over the last couple of years. Not impressed.

 

[Mo1959]

Just had a stroll down the village to pick up a newspaper, some stamps and a couple of sarnies.
Perfect Devon day here - 21° and .
Traffic was busy through the village and every other person in the shops was a Grockle.
Took a couple of piccies on my way back.

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This new build went on the market the other week and sold in a couple of days.
No garden or garage, 4 bed detached and a poxy coloured front door - £600K.
We watched it being built over the last couple of years. Not impressed.

Wow, obviously paying for location and not much else. You would get the same for half that up here.

 

[Dirk]

Wow, obviously paying for location and not much else. You would get the same for half that up here.

Probably bought by some DFL.

 

[Mo1959]

This one is up just now. More typical for up here. Looks decent, but no garage.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/d...h_identifier=1be4da3b985dca2555afad50349ee2ce

 

[ColinJ]

Reflecting on why I awake at stupid 0'clock I think we need heavier/darker curtains. This is the downstairs, extension bedroom that MrsD is having to use it so I have joined her.

This is a 3 bedroom cottage but there is a downstairs office which has temporarily been turned into a guest bedroom for me. I think that it will become a guest bedroom/office in the future with a sofa bed replacing the camp bed that I am using.

The problem that I noticed immediately is that the room has a double-glazed door with a large window to a backyard. Daylight would have been streaming in through that 4 or 5 hours before I wanted to wake up. At some point a curtain will probably be hung on the inside of the doorway but as a temporary measure I ripped pages out of a newspaper and sellotaped them over the pane of glass! That has been fine, letting just a gentle glow through.

Having watched the ITV 4 highlights of yesterdays TDF I was delighted to see Cav winning the stage ( I stay clear of this Forum so as to avoid any spoilers )

I have decided to make a pre-stage visit to this thread each day and then avoid it until late in the day after I have caught up on the race. I saw the spoiler warning yesterday, but I can't rely on all of you to avoid spoilers all of the time!

 

[ColinJ]

Is anybody else having problems with the red numbered alert flag (top right) 'sticking'? Normally it goes away after the alerts have been checked. I am still seeing one after I have looked at all of the alerts.

 

[Dirk]

This one is up just now. More typical for up here. Looks decent, but no garage.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/d...h_identifier=1be4da3b985dca2555afad50349ee2ce

I'll have to move to Scotland!
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/59020797/

 

[ColinJ]

There you go... I had 1 imaginary alert. @Dirk just 'Liked' my 2 previous posts, taking the count to 3. I checked those 2 and now it is stuck at 1 again!

 

[Dirk]

There you go... I had 1 imaginary alert. @Dirk just 'Liked' my 2 previous posts, aking the countto 3. I checked those 2 and now it is stuck at 1 again!

It's magic!

 

[Dirk]

That was a close shave!
Just connecting the pipe to my water butt and disturbed this little bugger!

False Widow spider. We're infested with the darned things!

 

[Lee_M]

Morning all, woke up yesterday with a sore throat and heavy chest, same today plus no voice.

I'll be doing a covid test later, but fairly confident it isn't covid as my symptoms don't really match and I've had both vaccinations.

Wish me luck

Negative, phew. Just a shitty throat and chest to deal with then

 

[ColinJ]

Pond pump alert!!!

I've just been reminded that I promised to see if I could fix the garden pond pump. A quick look leads me to think that the impellor either broke or came loose after a small stone had got in there somehow. I was trying to figure out how to get inside but couldn't; 30 seconds on YouTube provided the answer - the part twists off rather than coming off in the direction that I was trying to pull it!

 

[GM]

G'day all... All this sport on the telly at the moment is quite exhausting just watching it!

First job done, tablets sorted.

Good to see that tea is a good medicine