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14 hours ago, XTreme said:

It's bad enough me looking like something from the 1950's........I don't want the bike to look like that as well!

People might think I'm a Time Traveller!

They would kill themselves, how fucked would the future have to be for the time travellers to be ginger?

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11 hours ago, busabeast said:

I know but I'm unlikely to be able to get on track for a good few years so it's not fair to keep it cooped up in the garageĀ 

Are you selling the Busa as well then?

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20 minutes ago, busabeast said:

No not at the moment.... but if I need the money it would sell for then I'll have to

My advice is to stay out of ditches, new mortgage and another kid on the way.

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1 hour ago, busabeast said:

We aren't all living the retirement dream.....

Ain't that the truth!

I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella!

@CliveĀ is in Monte Carlo breaking the bank at the casinos with a Ferrari and a hot chick waiting outside!

And @RenegadeĀ is in the tropical paradise of Cardiff getting measured for the dental implants of his dreams!

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Living the (retirement) Dream!Ā 

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 ā˜ŗ) 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 Ā£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,Ā  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.Ā 

But like you @busabeastĀ I have to make some decisions,Ā  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 Ā£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 šŸ˜‚Ā 

OAP rant over...... have a nice day everyone. ā˜ŗĀ 

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40 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Ain't that the truth!

I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella!

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Bit early to be on the sauce, @SlowlycatchymonkeyĀ must be rubbing off on you.

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39 minutes ago, Clive said:

Living the (retirement) Dream!Ā 

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 ā˜ŗ) 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 Ā£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,Ā  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.Ā 

But like you @busabeastĀ I have to make some decisions,Ā  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 Ā£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 šŸ˜‚Ā 

OAP rant over...... have a nice day everyone. ā˜ŗĀ 

The cost of living here is a lot lower than the UK, but we could never survive on ā‚¬900 a month.Ā 

Keeping horses isn't cheap.......but that's the wife's interest (like bikes is mine), and as she was never able to have them in the UK I don't begrudge a penny going on them.

I'm lucky that my work isn't physically demanding, so as long as I can tap a keyboard and click a mouse I can keep doing it. Having said that, I couldn't do nothing like most of these Brits here.......I have to have something to keep me busy.

That was really brought home to me during the Covid lockdown......I was so desperate to actually do something I end up launching this fucking place! Now that's desperation.

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2 minutes ago, Saul said:

It will never be this clean again. Ā Ā 
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Nice colour on the new one. I do like the bronze on the 500's engine, though.

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1 hour ago, XTreme said:

Ain't that the truth!

I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella!

@CliveĀ is in Monte Carlo breaking the bank at the casinos with a Ferrari and a hot chick waiting outside!

And @RenegadeĀ is in the tropical paradise of Cardiff getting measured for the dental implants of his dreams!

You see everyone.... retirement is the life, pete has just written it in black and white....

Oh and he's never invited us to his fucking gin Palace the tight fisted bastard!

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4 minutes ago, busabeast said:

You see everyone.... retirement is the life, pete has just written it in black and white....

Oh and he's never invited us to his fucking gin Palace the tight fisted bastard!

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BRUCE...... WHERE ARE YOU BRUCE

The fucking Tories will have your generation working till you're 80.

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51 minutes ago, XTreme said:

The cost of living here is a lot lower than the UK, but we could never survive on ā‚¬900 a month.Ā 

Keeping horses isn't cheap.......but that's the wife's interest (like bikes is mine), and as she was never able to have them in the UK I don't begrudge a penny going on them.

I'm lucky that my work isn't physically demanding, so as long as I can tap a keyboard and click a mouse I can keep doing it. Having said that, I couldn't do nothing like most of these Brits here.......I have to have something to keep me busy.

That was really brought home to me during the Covid lockdown......I was so desperate to actually do something I end up launching this fucking place! Now that's desperation.

Channel 9 Television GIF by Celebrity Apprentice Australia

Very little I can do to keep busy, a bit of gardening, cut the grass,Ā  clean the car,

to try and pass some time I do the housework,Ā  wife has forgot how to vac up or wash a pot. šŸ˜‚Ā 

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3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Well @XTremeĀ certainly isn't , he's still working every day and he reminds us of that fact every dayĀ :classic_laugh:

As I said.....I need a challenge, I need something to focus on!

So I'm fine with it, but the flipside is I don't always get the time to do as much riding as I'd like to do.

But without the working there'd be no riding!

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23 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

So can ask all you retiree'sĀ  (is that a word ? )Ā  At what age did you start planning for your retirement ?

I had a great job as a Medical Rep for Beecham which had an excellent occupational pension scheme.

Then I got made redundant in the 80's and was never able to get the chance to get back into that sort of system. After all, I lived in the Graveyard of Ambition!

So from then on it was just making ends meet......maintenance for first family and supporting second family.

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26 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

So can ask all you retiree'sĀ  (is that a word ? )Ā  At what age did you start planning for your retirement ?

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

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