The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

Was a horrible journey to Daughter #1's place. Glad I was in a dirty great Swamper with AT tyres rather than the old Mini.

 

[numbnuts]

Still raining

 

[screenman]

A bit and bobbing day was had today, I have just got home from the gym, so a bit of chicken salad will be eaten shortly followed by 30 minutes of yoga then off to bed.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

All packed, one of those times I wish we had a bigger car!

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It'll get worse

In my 3rd year my Dad commented that when I started we all went down together
3 of us in the car and only one small bag on the spare back seat

when I finished the 3rd year I had to come home and take the car back myself because I had so much extra junk

and I lived in halls all 3 years - so not even including cooking stuff, bed sheets and all that!!!

 

[classic33]

A bit and bobbing day was had today, I have just got home from the gym, so a bit of chicken salad will be eaten shortly followed by 30 minutes of yoga then off to bed.

Ducking and diving, in the pool.
Could you do the yoga in bed.

 

[screenman]

Ducking and diving, in the pool.
Could you do the yoga in bed.

I could do but the bed is for trying to sleep in.

 

[classic33]

I could do but the bed is for trying to sleep in.

You seem to be having as much luck as myself getting to sleep, I thought you could combine the two.
The yoga, are you a black belt yet?

 

[Gunk]

It'll get worse

In my 3rd year my Dad commented that when I started we all went down together
3 of us in the car and only one small bag on the spare back seat

when I finished the 3rd year I had to come home and take the car back myself because I had so much extra junk

and I lived in halls all 3 years - so not even including cooking stuff, bed sheets and all that!!!

Moved my daughter out of her student house earlier this year, she had so much stuff I had to hire a Transit Van

 

[screenman]

You seem to be having as much luck as myself getting to sleep, I thought you could combine the two.
The yoga, are you a black belt yet?

No, not yet still on strawberry.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Mrs D tells me the local Facebook groups are full of people in new houses moaning about flooding.

Surely I can't be the only person in the UK to glance at an Environment Agency flood risk map before even going to loom at a house?

I think it is just you and me mate

I certainly did


actually the person who bought my wife's mother's house checked an found there was a teeiest tinyest possibility of a flood so his Dad was talking about installing flood protection gates and all sorts

I didn;t mention the ventilation bricks that would bypass his plans!

In reality she had been living there since Moses were a lad on the only flood was to the front law and that was because the counsel had "forgotten" to clear the drainage ditch that runs along the border to a Primary school and a nursing home next door
all of which was sorted

anyway - point is - most people don;t bother and wonder when it gets rather wet - and most house builders seem to find ways to claim it will all be OK!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

You seem to be having as much luck as myself getting to sleep, I thought you could combine the two.
The yoga, are you a black belt yet?

I am a black belt in Feng Sui

I specialise in moves which use an attackers own weight to make him fall over the furniture

 

[Drago]

Absolutely hammering it down.

 

[classic33]

I think it is just you and me mate

I certainly did


actually the person who bought my wife's mother's house checked an found there was a teeiest tinyest possibility of a flood so his Dad was talking about installing flood protection gates and all sorts

I didn;t mention the ventilation bricks that would bypass his plans!

In reality she had been living there since Moses were a lad on the only flood was to the front law and that was because the counsel had "forgotten" to clear the drainage ditch that runs along the border to a Primary school and a nursing home next door
all of which was sorted

anyway - point is - most people don;t bother and wonder when it gets rather wet - and most house builders seem to find ways to claim it will all be OK!!

There's new house's higher up, elevation wise, than where I am now that flood every few years. Built on the site of an old mill, next to a river that used to provide water for the mill wheels. They built a few more on the same site. Now some can't sell and move out due to past problems.

The river is a selling point for the site.

Came close to being flooded on the last Friday of April 1989. We'd a "stream" six inches deep running down the main road. I went round lifting drain covers to give the water an easier route. Rain lasted less than an hour but the damage was done in the first half hour. First and only time I've seen rain that heavy round here.

 

[classic33]

No, not yet still on strawberry.

What's your milkshake?

 

[Drago]

His milkshake brings the boys to the yard.