The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Fight fight fight
Or, pistols at dawn?

Being from Cheshire the choice is
a) fight with Queensberry rules
Or
b) pistols at dawn
As lancashire people don't fight fair it has to be pistols.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I'm still living in a big city, Coventry, once it was an industrial power house, no its turning into an university city.

We’re in a biggish city too, MrsF is intending to retire next year and we keep wondering about whether we should take that as our cue to escape to somewhere less populous.

 

[Dave7]

Bonjour. No idea what the weather is like so far as I am still in bed but I have a question for you: can you still buy rice for making rice pudding? We have not been able to find any in the shops round here since last March. I really miss my home made rice pudding. I can't stand the one out of a tin, it is far too watery for my taste.
Bonne journee.

I have a nearly full bag. You are welcome to some.
I may have been pregnant last year when I had this craving for home made rice pud. Made 3 up to now but tbh have not been overly impressed.

 

[numbnuts]

Bonjour. No idea what the weather is like so far as I am still in bed but I have a question for you: can you still buy rice for making rice pudding? We have not been able to find any in the shops round here since last March. I really miss my home made rice pudding. I can't stand the one out of a tin, it is far too watery for my taste.
Bonne journee.

My Sainsbury has pudding rice but I can't get semolina any where

 

[Dave7]

We’re in a biggish city too, MrsF is intending to retire next year and we keep wondering about whether we should take that as our cue to escape to somewhere less populous.

Where are your family ??
The problem we often have is that by the time you can retire and move it is often the age when you need your family.

 

[Mo1959]

I see Donald Trump and Melania have supposedly got Covid! Whether it is fake news to encourage sympathy for him in the upcoming elections or genuine who knows! I am getting that I read most news these days with some scepticism!

 

[BoldonLad]

I see Donald Trump and Melania have supposedly got Covid! Whether it is fake news to encourage sympathy for him in the upcoming elections or genuine who knows! I am getting that I read most news these days with some scepticism!

Snap!

My first thought, on hearing the news “very useful, that will keep him out of anymore train wreck debates, before the election”

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Where are your family ??
The problem we often have is that by the time you can retire and move it is often the age when you need your family.

We don’t have any kids so we’re just going to have to manage on our own. MrsF’s mum here in Edinburgh is still going strong at 87ish so if we do move we’ll have to make sure we’re no more than a few hours away. That gives us options in Perthshire, Speyside, Moray, Invernesshire, Deeside, Dumfries & Galloway and the Borders. Decisions, decisions !

 

[Dave7]

That’s been my experience too, of Aldi rather than Lidl. I have been into two Aldi stores, one here and the other in Aviemore. In both the biggest thing that let them down and the biggest reason why I’ve never been back to either was the awful checkout experience. As you say, only one or two checkouts open and huge queues.

Ours has a weird system that should (in theory) work but doesn't.
They have eg one checkout open. When there are more than eg 3 people waiting they announce that till No xyz is opening. So people rush to that, only to find there is no operative so they still have to wait. Very annoying.

 

[Dave7]

That looks a lovely place to live.

It was.

Until Paul moved there .
Only joking.
He is a nice guy really.

 

[Dave7]

We don’t have any kids so we’re just going to have to manage on our own. MrsF’s mum here in Edinburgh is still going strong at 87ish so if we do move we’ll have to make sure we’re no more than a few hours away. That gives us options in Perthshire, Speyside, Moray, Invernesshire, Deeside, Dumfries & Galloway and the Borders. Decisions, decisions !

AND..... as we get older we need to be close(er) to shops, doctors or hospitals.

 

[Mo1959]

AND..... as we get older we need to be close(er) to shops, doctors or hospitals.

That's why I quite like Crieff. It's sort of rural but still big enough to have a good medical practice, several chemists, couple of decent supermarkets, etc but still have nice walks ten minutes from my door.

 

[Dave7]

That's why I quite like Crieff. It's sort of rural but still big enough to have a good medical practice, several chemists, couple of decent supermarkets, etc but still have nice walks ten minutes from my door.

Sounds nice.
TBH I know nothing a out Crieff. I must google it

 

[Mo1959]

Sounds nice.
TBH I know nothing a out Crieff. I must google it

It's not as nice as it was when I first came here to live, but I don't think any town is now. We have the sadly normal thing of what used to be lovely hotels shut down and boarded up and the usual dose of charity shops where there used to be other nicer shops.

 

[gavroche]

My Sainsbury has pudding rice but I can't get semolina any where

Our nearest Sainsbury is less than 10 miles away but under the new restrictions, I can't get there because it is in Denbighshire and we live in Conwy which is in lockdown as from yesterday.