Clive

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.

I have only listed a few things ( bike & scoot) on there, put a price on the listing (let's say 1000 quid) and the 1st message i get is "I will put 600 quid in your bank now, give me your bank details".......yeh right oh...scammer.

Blankets are at the ready.

Heating bills!!!......we hardly use the central heating, if possible.

It will be residing in the spare room from the end of November till around March, cannot get it in the front room.

I keep seeing a vehicle for sale on Marketplace at a ridiculously low price, same photo, same price, but each time it is in a different location in the country according to the listing.

Scoot has heated grips, but I have never turned them on, maybe if I went further than 10 miles from home it would be a different case.

Other sizes are available.

Never been to Portugal (I wanted to back then).........and doubt i ever will.

They are about 1ft away from the fence on their side....looks like they will get them before the kids do.

Hope so.

Weather not looking good for your collection day.

Next door neighbours grapes. kids usually nick em.

We were all set to go on holiday to Portugal (2002), near Albufeira, but the apartment owner passed away just a month before we were due to go there, and his wife cancelled all booking for the apartment.

Yeh....we parted ways in autumn 1976.

Basic weekly pay there was about £35per week, we were paid on how many bricks we could set in the kilns each week, we could meet the basic required amount by Wednesday easily, after that we were on bonus money. Not long after that photo was taken the NCB sold the brickwork to the Midland Brick Co who preceeded to close it down, I was transferred to Welbeck colliery, and my wages fell to £40 per week bring home.

I was working at the colliery brickwork, i was on £75 per week bring home pay!...I was well off then...

Asda!...a nightmare more like, empty shelves. Ah fuck it, I will take my rage out on the lawns.