The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

I went to get a key cut for my new garage as they only gave me one "that will be £10 Sir" WHAT
£10 for just one key how much is he on an hour ???

 

[pawl]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QcjlzSod0CE

John Collier John Collier the window to watch Seem to remember that was the advertisement

 

[pawl]

Don't know what a Swisskit is and didn't notice any reference to it in those ads. Come to that, I didn't recognise too many of those ads so I guess they weren't shown here.

Enjoyed the Tufty one as that brought back memories. When I was in the St John's Ambulance we shared a hall with the Tufty club for toddlers and used to have fun arsing around with the Tufty props.

Tinga Tuker club
We are the Ovaltines

 

[pawl]

Martini adverts, anywhere, any place, any time. When we first started close friends used to call us the martini couple.

I knew you looked familiar

 

[Blue]

I knew you looked familiar

Well, that bobbing bare bottom did!!

 

[pawl]

I'm sat in the Willoughby cafe with a sausage sandwich and a coffee, its been a cold hard ride down, crossing Grandborough fields I passed a farm with a huge flock of Turkeys running around

Bet there looking forward to Christmas

 

[classic33]

John Collier John Collier the window to watch Seem to remember that was the advertisement

He asked for any others!

 

[pawl]

That's what we're doing with our final batch..

View attachment 551511

......BTW Well done Mrs P

My sister god bless her made chutney with the excess tomatoes.Miss her and her chutneys 😢😢😢

 

[screenman]

I went to get a key cut for my new garage as they only gave me one "that will be £10 Sir" WHAT
£10 for just one key how much is he on an hour ???

You need to know all his overheads and costs to find that out, not much I guess.

 

[Blue]

John Collier John Collier the window to watch Seem to remember that was the advertisement

When I first stated working I always went to Collier's for a fitted suit but must admit that when all the local fitting services closed I found M&S suits were as good a fit as any on me and used them until I retired.

The fitting services did add something of a feeling of quality but I had grown through that impressionable age by the time they started to close.

 

[Paulus]

@Paulus - Congratulations to Mrs P. 👏

Why I don't know but I have just remembered Paulus was my nickname at school.

I got the nickname when I started work as an apprentice on the railways in 1974.
There was a kids cartoon show called Paulus the wood gnome. One of the other apprentices started to call me that, it stuck and I am still called it now by retired and present drivers who knew me..😊

 

[pawl]

When I first stated working I always went to Collier's for a fitted suit but must admit that when all the local fitting services closed I found M&S suits were as good a fit as any on me and used them until I retired.

The fitting services did add something of a feeling of quality but I had grown through that impressionable age by the time they started to close.

The last suit I bought which was for my nieces wedding was from M&S.

 

[Dave7]

Bet there looking forward to Christmas

There is probably one less after Dave went past

 

[Dave7]

When I first stated working I always went to Collier's for a fitted suit but must admit that when all the local fitting services closed I found M&S suits were as good a fit as any on me and used them until I retired.

The fitting services did add something of a feeling of quality but I had grown through that impressionable age by the time they started to close.

As a teenager in the 60s its was either Colliers, Burtons or if were flush London Road in Liverpool where all the Jewish tailors were.
In later years it was M&S but in more recent years their quality went seriously down hill.

 

[Dave7]

Just been to the Spar for a few bits.
A) got to the door and realised I hadn't got my mask. I shouted to the assistant who said " no problem, just do your shopping"
B) I wonder how they continue as there are never more than, maybe, 6 people in but they have decent stocks of food and drink.
Expensive compared to Aldi but I only use them for bits AND they have the post office.