The Retirement Thread

[Mo1959]

Morning. It was raining earlier so I didn’t bother getting up. I’ve had my breakfast instead. I’ll give it another half hour to digest and might hop on the Wattbike for an hour

 

[gavroche]

Bonjour. Gorgeous sunrise.

 

[Paulus]

Good morning all.
In the space of 4 and a bit hours I have gone from 22⁰ to -3⁰ and a heavy frost. but it is sunny.
Got to collect Millie from our daughters later, get unpacked and then let the washing machine do it's thing.

 

[mikeIow]

Looks cold but sunny later….might have to have another amble. Agreed to do a week of the Camino in northern Spain in June with a pal & his son (who is walking the full month). 80 miles in 6 days…I’ll be doing more walking than pedalling this spring: need to get Mo-levels of miles under my feet 🤪

The walkie hunt yesterday was fun, but f-f-f-freezing 😱 We only managed 2½ hours before deciding to complete another day: just too cold!
We’ve all heard about rearranging the the deckchairs on the Titanic…our guidebook suggests they were made in Leicester! (hard to verify that one). & who knew Geoffrey Chaucer married his second wife in St Mary De Castro, a fine old church in an old part of town?
Recommended: if there’s a guide for a place near you, I’d say they would be good gifts 👍

 

[Tenkaykev]

Good morning as the sun rises over the houses. Today I will help a friend install a printer, the sort of job that can take any time between 5 minutes to many hours. I've booked the council to come and collect our old leather sofa, once that's gone then I can move the EKET storage units that contain our brommies from under the stairs and put them in the space the sofa took up. This is all temporary while the new kitchen is installed. Not looking forward to the upheaval but it will be nice when it is finished. I'd mentally pencilled in a couple of grand for the unforseen, so any underspend will be available for new toys 😁

 

[PeteXXX]

Bit frosty out.. I had to tap the top of the bin to put some recycling in it..

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Weather's looking pretty good for a couple of days.
Got a chap coming round tomorrow to reduce the height of five trees in our back garden. At least it will stay dry for him.
Off to the Railway Inn for Sunday lunch around 1pm.

 

[pawl]

Yesterday32nd wedding anniversary
Today 84th birthday. That got me thinking

I took early retirement in 2003 retired 21 years .For the last ten years of my working life of social work at the LRI iihad been helping people of the age I am now with returning too there home by providing services to enable them to return there homes safely..

 

[Drago]

Bruce walked, a nice 4 miles doing a lap of the industrial estate.

 

[Mo1959]

20 miles done in Mallorca on Rouvy. I am trying hard to like Rouvy but I don’t think it’s for me. I think it’s the fact that the routes are filmed from a vehicle, it just doesn’t feel realistic. I think I will just cancel it.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have a load of washing in the machine so of course the sun has disappeared.

 

[welsh dragon]

 

[PaulSB]

Good morning. A beautiful day in Lancashire. I've been awake for hours, this is not good but I have dealt with a lot of stuff that needed doing.

Next on the agenda is my exercise routine, a visit to #2 son who has IT problems and then I need to pick up shelving for my new storage facility. We had friends round for the inauguration of our summer house last night. This meant sitting in there for an hour or so, wrapped up against the cold, sipping Prosecco under star light......well alright a couple of phones! I need to get some lighting.

After some discussion we've decided instead of a summer house and shed we have "The Pavilion" with an adjacent storage facility.

 

[PeteXXX]

Bruce walked, a nice 4 miles doing a lap of the industrial estate.

We were in Delapre Park this morning.
Only the A45 separated us! 🐕 🚶

 

[PeteXXX]

Bonnie enjoyed her flea&tick tablet this morning as it was wrapped up in half a slice of Corned Beef 🐕