The Retirement Thread

[screenman]

£50 Spent on chocolates for the next time I visit the hospital, Dave might remember this.

 

[Dave7]

Pork today with stuffing, roast potatoes and peas.

Just had chicken, mixed veg, rice and soy sauce.
I am told I am on lasagna later.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I can hear the massed pipe bands heading down the town now to finish up in the park. The sound always gets to me. I am definitely a true Scot.

We get lots of pipes and drums here, we’re within earshot of Redford Barracks home to the Army School of Piping and also where they rehearse the tattoo. Across the road from the barracks is one of Edinburgh’s poshest schools, Merchiston Castle, they also have a pipe band.

 

[PaulSB]

£50 Spent on chocolates for the next time I visit the hospital, Dave might remember this.

£50 worth of chocolate in this house would be a temptation beyond all temptations

 

[Paulus]

£50 worth of chocolate in this house would be a temptation beyond all temptations

I could probably resist as I'm not a chocoholic, but MrsP on the other hand🤔

 

[screenman]

The chocolate will tempt me until I take it to the hospital. The nurses and NHS hotel staff like my visits.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

That's what Mrs D says about her rampant rabbit.

I thought she says
"He used to be a Police Officer and loves his dog"

 

[screenman]

Phew! Another weekend is nearly over. I struggled with it, but I am back working tomorrow, so things will be brighter. It might need to be potato juice time shortly, I cannot be bothered to cook, so it might be a few ginger biscuits for dinner.

 

[classic33]

Phew! Another weekend is nearly over. I struggled with it, but I am back working tomorrow, so things will be brighter. It might need to be potato juice time shortly, I cannot be bothered to cook, so it might be a few ginger biscuits for dinner.

Tinkers' Potcheen!!
Where'd you get that?

 

[screenman]

Tinkers' Potcheen!!
Where'd you get that?

I think mine came from Sweden originally, in a bottle marked Smirnoff, as an ex cyclo-cross rider I feel it only fair I should support them. Google Smirnoff Scramble, if you do not know what I am talking about.

 

[screenman]

A banana sandwich instead of the ginger biscuits, a spot of yoga and then an early night for me.

I forgot this little story; Pam caught me on the bathroom scales a while back; I was sucking my stomach in at the time, and she said that would not help, but it certainly did, as it was the only way I could see the numbers.

 

[classic33]

I think mine came from Sweden originally, in a bottle marked Smirnoff, as an ex cyclo-cross rider I feel it only fair I should support them. Google Smirnoff Scramble, if you do not know what I am talking about.

Which one is you?

 

[screenman]

Which one is you?
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I had already gone past, the camera was not quick enough.

 

[screenman]

In truth, I rode the event once as a schoolboy around 1970/71.

 

[classic33]

I had already gone past, the camera was not quick enough.

Not the one on the right of the picture?