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Ness Sep 2023 6:31pm, 14 Sep 2023 34,351 posts	0 Ness Fabulous!
Lip Gloss Sep 2023 6:40pm, 14 Sep 2023 71,261 posts	0 Lip Gloss Not jealous of any photos at all 😂😂😂. I could have that ice cream every day if I went 10 minutes past my house after work…Auntie Betty’s is practically on my doorstep
GimmeMedals Sep 2023 7:24pm, 14 Sep 2023 25,834 posts	0 GimmeMedals Heading SE to Hayle or SW ? From my experience the bit from Hayle to Lelant isn't worth it, unless ticking a box for completion. All next to a busy road and (fairly smelly) mud. The sand dunes eithe side of the estuary are good though! Enjoy We didn’t bother with Leland, just over the dunes to Hayle from Upper Towans then back along the beach. We had some steep, sandy climbs to deal with. Being retired isn’t all that easy, you know… We had to have a Philps pasty as well as Mr B’s ice cream (I didn’t think to take photos)
Lip Gloss Sep 2023 4:08pm, 15 Sep 2023 71,273 posts	0 Lip Gloss Day off today and I made it productive even with a slight long lie. I could get used this life rather quickly.
Mandymoo Sep 2023 4:21pm, 15 Sep 2023 17,356 posts	0 Mandymoo It won't take long I promise you 😁
Johnny Blaze Sep 2023 4:23pm, 15 Sep 2023 30,905 posts	0 Johnny Blaze Still painting here…
Ally-C Sep 2023 4:26pm, 15 Sep 2023 4,154 posts	0 Ally-C Got an update on my pension pot earlier, it’s went up more in the last year than I intend to take out annually, so that’s promising. No kids to leave anything to anyway.
Fizz :-) Sep 2023 7:32pm, 15 Sep 2023 8,222 posts	0 Fizz :-) As WW keeps reminding me, today should have been my last day. I think the three day thing will work out. I hope! I did have an interesting conversation with my immediate line manager though, where I said that I wasn’t sure I’d get very far past next June. “We only agreed the three day week based on the fact you said you would stay until 2025” to which my reply was “well I’m still only on three months’ notice”
Sigh Sep 2023 7:40pm, 15 Sep 2023 22,379 posts	0 Sigh As WW keeps reminding me, today should have been my last day. I think the three day thing will work out. I hope! I did have an interesting conversation with my immediate line manager though, where I said that I wasn’t sure I’d get very far past next June. “We only agreed the three day week based on the fact you said you would stay until 2025” to which my reply was “well I’m still only on three months’ notice” One of my final pieces of work before leaving was to produce a proposal for a retirement policy. Possibly a futile exercise, but my boss approved it and she was a board director; In summary, I pointed out that they should be incentivising folks to provide longer notice periods of their retirement dates in return for days off to plan for retirement, preserved bonus entitlement, etc. It may come to nothing, but without it, more and more times they'll be stung by long-serving employees giving the bare minimum notice and leaving quite a hole.
GimmeMedals Sep 2023 8:17pm, 15 Sep 2023 25,838 posts	0 GimmeMedals Today, my job was to watch seagulls, eat fish and chips and swim in the sea at St Ives. I am an exemplary employee and achieved everything on today’s job list.

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