The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

We had pizza for lunch.

25 deg here

 

[Mo1959]

We had pizza for lunch.

25 deg here

Enjoyed the mountain biking. Pidcock nicked the gold after puncturing. Amazing.

 

[Paulus]

Enjoyed the mountain biking. Pidcock nicked the gold after puncturing. Amazing.

Bit of a shame that some of the partisan crowd were booing Tom at the finish though.

 

[Drago]

Shame they weren't so quick to boo at the visitors in 1940.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Looks like some of us will be slightly poorer in the year ahead.

 

[BoldonLad]

The climbing was cancelled for $reasons - I suspect the grand daughter was upset - but we were not there to see

anyway - as it is school holidays we will try to take her tomorrow!

Anyway - instead I went for a ride
which was good - forgot to take a drink so HAD to stop at a cafe which happened to sell really nice Ice Cream!!!

one annoying thing
just a few miles in I was riding along a tow path on the canal in Runcorn
There was a man - about 50 ish - walking in front of my and in the same direction

I rode up normally and slowed and rang my bell - as usual
zero reaction - which is not unknown - so I slowed more and said "Excuse me please"

he moved aside and said "Oh sorry"


as I passed him I noticed he was looking at by bike and as I got just past him he said
"I notice that you DO have a bell on your bike" - in a critical manner

I am 99.9% certain he was not saying "well done for having a proper warning device"
but was criticising me for not using it

which I had done - and it is not a quiet bell of one that just gives a single brief ding

almost wish I had stopped and said I noticed he had ears on his head

I was muttering under mu breat for ages after that!!!

Get that sort of stupidity about the bell fairly frequently. I follow a similar routine to you. I just conclude: deaf/earphones/stupid take your choice. Life is too short to get vexed about it 😊

 

[Dave7]

I'm sure no one in here would consider anything you want to share as negative. Honest, straightforward? Yes. Negative? No

On the slot thing. In my experience with the NHS, which is more extensive than is good for me, when it's urgent they find a slot. Pretty Damn Quick.

Yep...... Apparently it will be tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Enjoyed the mountain biking. Pidcock nicked the gold after puncturing. Amazing.

Your local lad did well too, 8th. From Creiff I believe ?

 

[classic33]

Yep...... Apparently it will be tomorrow or Wednesday.

Was it nill by mouth this morning, then they informed you it wasn't going to be today.

 

[screenman]

A quiche with salad and a glass of Pinot for dinner tonight.

 

[Dave7]

Was it nill by mouth this morning, then they informed you it wasn't going to be today.

Good point...... So probably, Wednrsday

 

[classic33]

Good point...... So probably, Wednrsday

I was wondering more about the one that were supposed to have happened today.
"Nil By Mouth" from midnight and then they tell you it's not today. Usually just after they've cleared the breakfasts away, leaving nurses trying to scrape something up for you. Often from their own meals.

 

[Drago]

Finished decorating the living room. Looks smart.

 

[screenman]

I think my bottle of Pinot has a leak.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

We have new neighbours

more specifically the road outside the small estate I live on has the estate on one side and a park on the other side
about 15-20 caravans - plus a load of builders type trucks - pick up sort of things - have appeared. I saw some of them arrive and they just drove up onto the grass by going over the kerb in the car park


by total coincidence - someone has been blasting a heavy sounding scrambler type motorbike around this evening

I have told the local counsel about it all and she has replied and said a local counsellor was walking their dog in the park when the caravans arrived and the appropriate people have been informed
etc etc