The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

We has and I'm having roast beef, carrots, mashed potatoes and spinach followed by apple pie and ice cream

I'm going to do a roast chicken dinner today with spring greens, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and Swede.
There will be enough for several dinners this week.

 

[Mo1959]

One of these firms at the door doing tree trimming. I have a conifer that’s getting out of hand and he wanted £120 to trim it down but told him I only had £70 cash in the house so he agreed to do it for that. Probably not too bad in this day and age.

 

[Dave7]

One of these firms at the door doing tree trimming. I have a conifer that’s getting out of hand and he wanted £120 to trim it down but told him I only had £70 cash in the house so he agreed to do it for that. Probably not too bad in this day and age.

So long as he cleans up and takes it all away it's not too bad.
I always insist on seeing their certificate. I won't pay gyp our travelling friends, no matter how cheap.

 

[Dave7]

Sausage sandwiches today.

And the rain is here.

I had a cooked breckie of egg, sausage, hash brown and beans.
Later I will have chicken curry with chips with bread n butter.

 

[numbnuts]

Garmin sleep tells me I was a sleep for 7 hours, I don't think I was, but if to just lie there without moving I think you can trick it to say your asleep

 

[Mo1959]

Garmin sleep tells me I was a sleep for 7 hours, I don't think I was, but if to just lie there without moving I think you can trick it to say your asleep
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Yes, I always find it thinks I am sleeping better than I am. Gives you an idea I suppose.

 

[simongt]

Bough three jars of locally made sauerkraut yesterday; dill & lemon, beetroot, Korean Kimchi after taste testing the six flavour available.
Had the lemon & dill on toast with fried eggs on top, good choice - !
Also swung by our 'local' Polish shop for some smoked sausage. Served by an enthusiastic lass who knows her products. Another good selection bought. Oh and a couple of their locally made Polish style cakes; about 500 calories a slice, but my diet starts next month - !

 

[numbnuts]

Well the yellow alert, the black clouds and the rain never came to much, I think some one got it wrong

 

[BoldonLad]

Right, now for a serious question. I have renewed my car insurance with the AA and since then, I receive emails offering me a free car safety kit if I pay for the postage. I have ignored it so far in case it is a scam. So what do you think ? Is it genuine or a scam?

I get similar emails, and, I am not insured with AA I assume it is a scam

 

[welsh dragon]

We have done our good deed for the day. We have a small pond at the front of the house with 3 goldfish in it. The pond needs a lot of work done to it. Its looks really unhealthy foe the fish. Mr WD read that putting a small bale of hay into the pond would get rid of a lot of algae etc, but it seems to have had the opposite effect. It's made the water horrible, the weed has died and the poor fish are not doing well, so we have emptied the pond and taken the the goldfish up to the big pond. It's much better for them.

 

[classic33]

We have done our good deed for the day. We have a small pond at the front of the house with 3 goldfish in it. The pond needs a lot of work done to it. Its looks really unhealthy foe the fish. Mr WD read that putting a small bale of hay into the pond would get rid of a lot of algae etc, but it seems to have had the opposite effect. It's made the water horrible, the weed has died and the poor fish are not doing well, so we have emptied the pond and taken the the goldfish up to the big pond. It's much better for them.

Hay in a fish pond, not straw?

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well the yellow alert, the black clouds and the rain never came to much, I think some one got it wrong

Sadly typical!

 

[welsh dragon]

Hay in a fish pond, not straw?

It may well have been

 

[classic33]

It may well have been

Had a quick check since, and it seems it should be barley straw that's used.
Hay can introduce it's own algae into the water, killing it.

 

[screenman]

As I popped into Tesco I noticed a woman standing beside her car she was on the phone, I noticed the car was on side stand and the spare wheel was out, I pulled in beside her and asked if I could help, she said they had the nuts off and the wheel was still stuck on, she also said the AA would be there at 6.30 pm, it was 1.30 pm at that time. At that moment another guy came over, it was her husband, I asked him if I could help and he explained the same, lucky for them the right bloke was talking to them a few minutes later the wheel, was off and the spare fitted, my good deed done for the day.

I always stop and ask anybody who looks like they have car problems; this couple of oldies, well my age, had been struggling for 30 minutes oddly enough only one other person had asked if he could help at all; he was a cyclist on his bike and had no tools with him.