The Retirement Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

If they slap your legs with stinging nettles there'd be a few queuing up to post risky comments 😉

Risky or riske?

 

[Paulus]

As I won't be getting my first winter fuel payment this year, I don't think that I am losing money as such, because as I never had it, I can't really lose it.

 

[welsh dragon]

My legs still hurt from when the mods slapped me.

You told me you enjoyed it.

 

[PaulSB]

You told me you enjoyed it.

🤣🤣🤣

 

[welsh dragon]

Risky or riske?

He doesn't mind either way

 

[welsh dragon]

Chicken and fries today.

 

[PaulSB]

He doesn't mind either way

I heard preferably both.........at the same time 🫣

 

[Mo1959]

If they slap your legs with stinging nettles there'd be a few queuing up to post risky comments 😉

Supposed to be good for arthritis!

 

[Mo1959]

Chicken and fries today.

I am also thinking about chicken. Probably with green beans.

 

[PaulSB]

Supposed to be good for arthritis!

Ah! Any volunteers to give my left hip a good thrashing??

 

[classic33]

Risky or riske?

Why bring Estonia into it?

 

[BoldonLad]

It's only going to get worse.

I heat some people saying but pensioners will be getting £460 next year, but we have post £300 in the winter fuel allowance so in actually fact we will only get £160, a massive £3.36 or thereabouts. And those not on the full pension will get even less..

Methinks they don't like us.

Unless you are on the “new pension” ie retired post 2016, you will not even get the full £460 rise.

 

[gavroche]

Salut tout le monde. Beautiful spring day today and Mrs G has gone to Costco in Queensferry with our son.

I was going to go for a ride but I don't like going if Mrs G is not close by, in case I have a mechanical I can't fix and no one to call for a lift home so may be later, when she is back although she did mention going to buy some paint today.

Tomorrow is a no go as we are expecting high winds and rotten weather.

To keep myself occupied, I have cleaned and oiled my Roubaix as It will hibernate now till next spring. The other 3 bikes are still being used, in rotation but 2 of them will soon join the Roubaix for the next few months.

Talking about end of life, I have always said that I wanted to be buried but I have changed my mind now and cremation it will be provided they make sure that I am well dead before the put the heat on. Couldn't care less what they will do with my ashes afterward.
I have only chosen one song so far for my funeral and working on the others. It is called " Les roses bleues" by Richard Anthony.

 

[gavroche]

Unless you are on the “new pension” ie retired post 2016, you will not even get the full £460 rise.

I don't get this New Pension and Old Pension? Surely, that is discrimination as older pensioners have contributed all their lives, 44 years in my case.

 

[welsh dragon]

I don't get this New Pension and Old Pension? Surely, that is discrimination as older pensioners have contributed all their lives, 44 years in my case.

It's ridiculous that one person can retire 1 year earlier than another, but get around £50 a week less.