The Retirement Thread

[PeteXXX]

Is the site okay for everyone now?

Yep.. All good here, ta 👌 👍

 

[welsh dragon]

May be now @Tenkaykev won't feel picked on anymore

 

[Dave7]

Southern fried chicken burgers today.

Bacon and egg butty for me, maybe sausage and egg. Big decisions.

 

[classic33]

Is the site okay for everyone now?

Middlin
Will be able to say better later on. It did improved a lot yesterday though.

 

[Dirk]

Afternoon all

Think I forgot to post this morning, so belated greetings from Dirk towers.
At a bit of a loose end today. Waiting on a donor bike to be delivered, so I can finish off the mountain bike I'm repairing.
Might watch a film this afternoon.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Going visiting PM. I don't really like driving but there's simple manly pleasure in just taking my dog out in my van.

Give my best wished to Keir

I knew you were into politics but I thought it was just a very local level!!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Apparently Bernie Ecclestone is selling off all the F1 cars in his collection


I have mentioned it to SWMBO who just hmmmed

I think she knows what I mead!!!!

 

[mistyoptic]

Off to Nantwich to meet other retirees for a few days of reminiscence eating and drinking

 

[Dave7]

Off to Nantwich to meet other retirees for a few days of reminiscence eating and drinking

Many years since I visited Nantwich. It used to be nice, what's it like now?

 

[Paulus]

I've been out on the bike for a while, but the temperature is now dropping and the sky is clouding over. Rain is on the way.
It will be dark before 4pm today.

 

[Tenkaykev]

May be now @Tenkaykev won't feel picked on anymore

Just when I thought my day couldn't get any better, a like from my favourite Brummie 😉

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Well that seems to be the day gone already. Been out to visit my MiL, got back, had lunch, and suddenly its getting dark. Oh well, time to put my feet up then.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

When at the pub with “the boys” (average age 75), it is a regular topic of conversation in the “today’s generation” don’t maintain anything, be it bicycles, lawnmowers, washing machines, etc

It is always difficult to draw conclusions from your own experiences, since the may not be typical, but, for me, born 1947, I didn't have a “bought bicycle” until I was 11. I had two cousins, a couple of years older than me. We used my uncle’s garden shed as a workshop, and, scrounged bicycle bits from anywhere we could, including the “rag and bone man”, to build ourselves a bicycle each. I recall, my dad showing me how to find and fix a puncture in an inner tube. He showed me once, then, said “ok, you can do that yourself from now on”. All this, as I say, before age 11.

None of that for my children, we were affluent enough to buy them bicycles etc. I do recall once showing them how to make a “bogie” out of old pram wheels and a plank of wood. They loved it, and, were the envy of other kids in the street. Their mother (Mrs B mark 1) was horrified, “what will the neighbours think”.

My children are now in their 50s, no “mechanical skills”, my grandchildren are even less skilled, and, have everything brand new.

In the street where I now live, there 5 children under 11, bicycles are not even put away at night, but, just left lying where they dropped them.

Born 1964, I have no mechanical or practical skills whatsoever. Most of my working life was spent on the phone looking at spreadsheets.

 

[Dirk]

Born 1964, I have no mechanical or practical skills whatsoever.

None?!
Are you sure?
Yet must be able to do some practical stuff.

 

[Dave7]

None?!
Are you sure?
Yet must be able to do some practical stuff.

I am similar. Useless at anything mechanical, although I did work on my 850 cc mini in the early 70s.
I did find I had a gift for decorating and enjoyed doing that.