The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

I think this section is very much the right place tbh. Illness is pretty much a given of retired life and death certainly is.

It's a good a place as any to share, grieve and vent, imo.

I like your comments.
I just don't want to burden all you nice folk with my pain.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Home insurance.
We all expect these things to rise but this is unbelievable.
I have insured through Sainsburys for a few years.
Just had my renewal letter.
Last year £230
This year £650
Do they really expect me to accept that?

Utterly ridiculous.

Not looking forward to ours next month.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I like your comments.
I just don't want to burden all you nice folk with my pain.

It's not a burden at all.

Whilst I am far from a regular in here I am sure that the proper reg's don't find it a burden - they are all nice people and have all been around long enough to have had negative life experiences that enable them to empathise with those who are suffering.

Keep posting!

 

[Dave7]

Utterly ridiculous.

Not looking forward to ours next month.

I have just been on the phone to them. Nice lady looked into it but can't do any better.
So I will have to go on the comparison sites which I hate doing.
Can't understand it as I have not had a claim for donkeys year and nothing has changed.

 

[classic33]

Dinner will be a nice chicken salad, two stone down so far and a bit more to go.

How big a salad did you make?

 

[BoldonLad]

I have just been on the phone to them. Nice lady looked into it but can't do any better.
So I will have to go on the comparison sites which I hate doing.
Can't understand it as I have not had a claim for donkeys year and nothing has changed.

There is whole thread about it https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/insurance-renewal.294575/, seems to be widespread, not that that makes it any more palatable!

 

[Dave7]

How big a salad did you make?

It was a mixed meat salad.
I lettuce leaf, 2 T bone steaks and 4 suasages .

 

[Dave7]

I am getting really p*ssed off with this rain......its been constant all day.

 

[screenman]

How big a salad did you make?

I cheated, Lidl made it for me, £1.39 buys enough prepared salad for two meals for me, I was carrying a bit to much ballast prior to the recent few months, it has got to go.

 

[screenman]

I am getting really p*ssed off with this rain......its been constant all day.

To make it worse it is wet rain, horrible stuff. I would go swimming today instead of a bike ride, but I did that yesterday, I could go to the gym but that would mean meeting people, so get wet on the bike it will be.

 

[numbnuts]

HbA1c 44 mmol/mol

 

[SpokeyDokey]

HbA1c 44 mmol/mol

Good News for you!

 

[Paulus]

Utterly ridiculous.

Not looking forward to ours next month.

My home and contents insurance is up for renewal at the end of the month. It's gone up £70 on last year. £390 is this years figure. I done comparison sites and they're coming in about the same.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My home and contents insurance is up for renewal at the end of the month. It's gone up £70 on last year. £390 is this years figure. I done comparison sites and they're coming in about the same.

I just had a play on Money Supermarket and it came in around £300 average (starting from £190). Ours last year was £310 I think.

I need to tweak it re some high value items (bike & jewellery) when the renewal comes through next month. But hopefully it will come in at around your price.

For reference we have 9 years NC, house value doesn't seem to matter these days, roughly £50k content, not a subsidence or flood risk area, brick built, tiled roof detached bungalow in rural low crime area.

 

[welsh dragon]

It was a mixed meat salad.
I lettuce leaf, 2 T bone steaks and 4 suasages .

That's my kind of salad