The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

And you hate mushrooms.
How do you survive?

Quite well thank you

 

[welsh dragon]

Pie and chips today

 

[numbnuts]

What the **** is chicken cottage pie

View: https://youtu.be/0yGYngNCDLc?si=jHujylOecimaLryC

 

[Dave7]

Only 60 miles away, let me know if and when I would happily drive over for a quick meet up, with a bit of notice I can work around most dates.

Will do.
It's a village called West Leake and the pub is called the Star.

 

[Dave7]

View: https://youtu.be/0yGYngNCDLc?si=jHujylOecimaLryC

That is a contradiction in terms. It cannot be a cottage pie with chicken.

 

[Drago]

A cottage pie should contain at least 5% real cottage.

 

[numbnuts]

That is a contradiction in terms. It cannot be a cottage pie with chicken.

When your the chief you can make and call it what you like and in my gaff anything goes.
Try is some time it is really nice

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Scorching here now, 19°. Have been strimming some of the long grass.

 

[Mo1959]

Phew. Warm here too. Thought I’d better get a wander done. That’s enough for me today. I think I might just stick the pj’s on. Comfier for lounging about and cooler too.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I’ll be back to paying tax next year once I get my state pension.

It's irritating still paying tax in retirement, when I look at my income tax contributions over the years. Especially during my peak earnings period '99 to '05.

We get clobbered as we have a decent amount of money coming in each year.

Although I have 10% of Mrs SD's personal allowance to offset a little bit of tax on my part.

We use the rest of her personal allowance + the £1000 savings interest allowance (for each of us) and her £5000 starter savings allowance to mop up at least some of our non-ISA investment interest. It's surprising how many people are not aware of the latter allowance.

Here's hoping ISA's survive the forthcoming 5 years! (Staying just the right side of the NCAP threshold there!)

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Mo1959]

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It put me up to the 150,000 step challenge this week because I did quite a lot last week. I have finished a poor 6th as I haven’t walked quite as much this week.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

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It put me up to the 150,000 step challenge this week because I did quite a lot last week. I have finished a poor 6th as I haven’t walked quite as much this week.



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Some good mileages there!

 

[classic33]

Some good mileages there!

Or very small steps being taken!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Mrs Tkk are having an unplanned night at the Premier Inn at Southampton airport. Our routine train journey from Waterfront to Poole got as far as Eastleigh, due to a signalling outage there sre no trains further south. There was a humungous group of people milling around waiting for rail replacement buses and the Station staff were overwhelmed. Mrs Tkk attended Southampton university and knows the area reasonably well. We went online and quickly booked a room for the night, jumped on the Brommies and cycled to the hotel. Dinner booked for 5:30 as we're famished. Hopefully the trains are back running in the morning 🤞