The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

I do get confused

I used to be laughed at for going on holiday with factor 8 suncream only - and lots of it
everyone else took a small bottle of factor 6 and then use 3 or 4 after the first few days

even though I was spening most of the holiday on a sailing dinghy out in the middle of a bay


nowadays we are talking about factors like 50 being a minimum

in the 1980s/90s that would have required a 1mm sheet of aluminium at least to achieve it!!

I presume the system has changed - otherwise my fair skin would have burnt terribly!!

 

[Mike Ayling]

Aye, and thirty years ago, this year, used SPF25, and still got burnt in April.

It needs to be reapplied at regular intervals.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Landscapers are back in sorting out the gardens and patios and driveway

The Boss seems to be in a mood - he is trying to disguise it but he wants decisions that he should have told us about before the weekend
and he is insisting on doing something in the back before the front when he could do the front first - IMO

I think he is not well and has had a busy weekend

anyway - SWMBO is up now so aesthetic decisions can be made that I can;t make on my own
I can point out problems with things like that - but she has better vision
and anyway - if the flagged circles are out of centre I wouldn;t even notice

off centre then it would annoy me - but not otherwise!

 

[gavroche]

In the 60's. we had a cousin who lived in the Ardeche, South of France. We used to go there in the summer and never put sun cream on. Never done us any harm apart from sunburns every now and again.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My BF's wife has had two minor skirmishes with Melanoma - I say minor but one involved 'replacing' a 4" dia' patch of skin on her back due to one of the small malignant areas.

Heavy sunbed user in her teens.

Still sun bathes - often without using sunblock.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Headed out to Tesco, the wind has picked up again, had to leg it down the road to retrieve my hat 💨

 

[classic33]

Going back many years (as I can) a holiday consisted of lying on the beach, in the sun, as long as possible and going to the pub at night.
1976 we had a week in Anglesey, got nice and brown then later had 2 weeks in Cornwall.......I was nearly black.
In recent years I have happily stayed in the shade.

I just burn, even on the parts that are covered, no suntan for me. Oddly never the face though, or the neck.

It's about the only time both arms come close in colour.

 

[Drago]

Back home from being out visiting with Bruce.

The bad news is my van is now filthy. The good news is that gives me an excuse to clean it later in the week!

 

[Paulus]

I'd go sooner rather than later. Your chances of burning increases as the day goes on. The water will make it worse, and cool you slightly whilst increasing the burning.

I do have factor 50 with me.

 

[PaulSB]

Out with the old..........and in with the new.

The front is an 8 x 8' summer house and the rear an 8 x 8 garden shed. The cladding around the base is my responsibility as is "landscaping" and tidying the general area.

Very pleased.

 

[BoldonLad]

Have you blokes heard of sun block creams? SPF50 at a minimum.

This is the retirement thread, our generation didn't mess about with sun block cream! We got kicked out the house, at daylight, bottle of water and a jam sandwich (if you were lucky). Come home when it got dark. None of this namby-pamby sunblock and hats for us 😂

 

[PaulSB]

This is the retirement thread, our generation didn't mess about with sun block cream! We got kicked out the house, at daylight, bottle of water and a jam sandwich (if you were lucky). Come home when it got dark. None of this namely-pamby sunblock and hats for us 😂

This is so, so true. In the summer holidays I don't think my mother knew where I was from one day's end to the next. "I'm going out to play." ........and that was it.......

 

[welsh dragon]

This is the retirement thread, our generation didn't mess about with sun block cream! We got kicked out the house, at daylight, bottle of water and a jam sandwich (if you were lucky). Come home when it got dark. None of this namby-pamby sunblock and hats for us 😂

This is so, so true. In the summer holidays I don't think my mother knew where I was from one day's end to the next. "I'm going out to play." ........and that was it.......

I remember those days well.

 

[Dave7]

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Out with the old..........and in with the new.

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The front is an 8 x 8' summer house and the rear an 8 x 8 garden shed. The cladding around the base is my responsibility as is "landscaping" and tidying the general area.

Very pleased.

Can i book my holiday now please ,

 

[Drago]

Burgers for tea. Yum.