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I've been pretty lucky, in that, I've always worked for companies that had pretty good pensions, with the exception of 1, but I only worked for them for a couple of years and I took out my own pension investment plan whilst I worked for them. I never gave it any serious thought until working for my last company, who's pension scheme was 2% employee contribution and the company paid double that, so they put 4% in. But they also had a scheme where the employee could up their contribution to 3% or 4% and the company would put in double that amount. So I opted for 4% and the company put in 8%, so I had 12% of my salary going into their pension. My first 2 companies had final salary pensions and, although I left those companies many years ago, the pensions from them are reasonably useful. One of them I opted to take a higher amount until I get my state pension, then that pension drops back, but even then it should be £4k a year on top of my state pension. The other pensions were defined contribution pensions. The stock market dropping over the past couple of years has hit them pretty hard, but there's still a useful amount in them at the moment. I'm taking a small amount out of them at the moment just to supplement the others a bit.

62........which, coincidentally, was also the age that I retired at!

I don't know what's wrong with some of the Triumph dealers, I guess that they shift a good number of bikes without really having to try. I think that the Hornet 750 is a solid choice for you.

I've been out for several rides on both my ebike and non-ebike recently, but not bothered to post it up. Anyway, I went out on the ebike this morning. I was Billy no mates, as all the other lazy f*ckers came out with lame excuses! I decided to go down to the beach to check out the waves, as there was a warning on the weather channel about it being dangerous to go swimming. The waves weren't actually very bad at all, but I think that it's going to get pretty windy overnight, so it may be a bit rougher tomorrow. There was a local lifeboat moored at the marina in the estuary, so maybe there is some rougher seas due. Anyway, not a bad ride there and back. I even worked up a sweat!

Chicken enchiladas.

I thought that the monthly income requirements for Portugal are lower than those in Spain?

A double edged sword! Great for those expat brits that are legitimately resident in Portugal, but could be seen as a great opportunity for those booted out of Spain to come over the border and pollute Portugal now!

I was in the third year of my apprenticeship. I had my Honda CD175, but chopped it in in August for an RD350B. I think I was earning around £20-25 a week. I had a girlfriend called Helen, but my mates called her Swan Vesta!

Was that on a V-Strom, Pete?

The rest of the week is looking like it could be a bit rainy, so I decided to get a little bimble in this morning. Had to put the liner into my mesh jacket as the temperature was almost into single figures this morning! Only got a couple of pictures, as I couldn't be arsed to keep stopping.

Actually the rules that the UK wanted and were instrumental in getting them implemented when they had a seat at the top table in the EU. The same rules that anyone from a non-EU country have to abide by, so it's not singling the Brits out, it's the rules applied to all non-EU citizens.