Clive

Got to get permission off the wife 1st she don't like me buggering off and leaving her in the bungalow.

So I suppose I am being anti social.

I honestly do not know if there is a food bank near us @boboneleg But with my disability it would make it a problem to work with other people, I do my best to avoid people and groups..............iam not anti social, but it is just easier to avoid the problem.

I have walked around the park and Heathland many time, it seems to be only Pigeons and Magpies that live there. I have not got a cycle not ridden one since my mid 20,s, tubby has never ridden a bike in her life, in her condition and being nearly 70 years old i doubt she could now, She cannot walk far, she cannot even make it to Magpies Park, and pathways around it are uneven and some have gradients. I am not being dismissive of your suggestion though @Slowlycatchymonkey

So very true.

That's my biggest problem with my retirement, almost nothing to do to occupy my mind and time. Tried to think of other things besides gardening () but nothing comes to minds as to a passing time.

My plans for this weekend?

And I ride even less than you too.

My scoot beats your moped hands down in the derision stakes.

Moped.

I have never seen Rocky.

Don't include me in... this lot.

I congratulate you and all the people who were able to do as you did.

At my last job we were on minimum wage, the guy who owned the company told us (drivers) that he was going to up it to the living wage ☺ What did he do?. He dropped our daily working hours down by 1 hour per day, which in effect put us on the living wage, but we still bought home the same amount of wages.

I did not know how much the state pension was before I looked it up a few years before retirement. Savings bonds, investments, property!......no one on the minimum wage has the spare cash to dabble in them....same with a private pension, needed every penny to live payday to payday.

We do bale them out, but we get the money back................eventually.... Freeloaders!!...we are surrounded by them here.

I hoped we could do things, day trips, visit a cafe and have a cuppa and a bun, but with prices rising as they have there is bugger all left after paying our bills. I do not see things improving, so further cuts will have to be made, get rid of Sky TV for one, but further saving......where?

How would I prepare for retirement? Nothing I could do to alter it.

There was never any planning involved, i just waited for the day to arrive.

Very little I can do to keep busy, a bit of gardening, cut the grass, clean the car, to try and pass some time I do the housework, wife has forgot how to vac up or wash a pot.

Living the (retirement) Dream! This is not the retirement dream i envisaged, not a nightmare, but definitely not a dream. What with Covid lockdown, and now the huge rise in the cost of living it does give me some sleepless nights. Fair enough, we did get a decent rise in our pension this year (hope for another next year ☺) but council tax and energy costs wiped that out straight away, and food prices still rising we are now back to having to be very careful what we buy.....Asda & Tesco (other supermarkets are available) use to raise prices of things by 20p..30p or even 50p, now? somethings we buy have gone up a by £1 or more! So living the dream?..we sit in this bungalow almost 6 days per week, which I find hard has when I was at work I was on the road every week day, driving down to the south of London, or up into Northumberland, that was living the dream. With cost so high for everything, we have to live (more like existing) very carefully, holidays are 3 nights in a caravan in Mablethorpe, we do not go out socialising, yeh it's a fun filled life in retirement. But like you @busabeast I have to make some decisions, I keep saying it, but I think the scoot will have to go next spring, it is fine fettle at the moment, but when it comes to wanting new tyres and other consumables, I can't really afford them on my £40 monthly fuel allowance, if anything happens to the car the money will come out of our burial fund, they can bury me in the back garden OAP rant over...... have a nice day everyone. ☺

I have no idea Rich, I may ask them when they return from their hols.

Only my hands get wet, leg sheilds and big screen keep me out of the rain........and for some steange reason only my thumbs seem to suffer in cold weather.

It has been bucketing it down here since 5pm, as yet no gale force winds.. 5am ...nope I don't do 5am,s

https://images.app.goo.gl/EAJRA8N3xyrTG15K7 Shame they never put it into production.