The Retirement Thread
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Mar 2024
7:40am, 12 Mar 2024
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Ness
Hopefully you'll be travelling to somewhere with more predictable weather soon, TROSaracen Mr Ness and I found spending most of January on a Canary Island was good for that. 😁
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Mar 2024
7:41am, 12 Mar 2024
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Sigh
7 weeks into retirement, and I’m trying to anticipate what retirement life without it raining all day would look like. The same, but drier. |
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Mar 2024
7:41am, 12 Mar 2024
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Ness
Should have said predictably warm rather than predictable. 😂
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Mar 2024
9:33am, 12 Mar 2024
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TROSaracen
That’s the plan Ness, Lanzarote in January done, then Mallorca in April, Mallorca in May (half Ironman race). Come Autumn I have Nice in Sept, Hawaii in Oct and either New Zealand in Dec or Canada (skiing) Jan or Feb. I think January spell in Lanza just made this miserable shit seem even worse though…. |
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Mar 2024
9:37am, 12 Mar 2024
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Ness
Great plans! I agree. It has been particularly rainy this time. I think we had some snow in March last year.
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Mar 2024
9:39am, 12 Mar 2024
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Hills of Death (HOD)
Exactly I’ve stayed in this country and I’m used to this shit 😂
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Mar 2024
10:08am, 12 Mar 2024
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TROSaracen
The irony is I thought retirement would create flexibility in the timing of doing outside stuff so that rain dodging would be highly effective. Beardy upstairs bloke’s response has been to hurl unprecedented rain all day days at me, the bastard. |
Mar 2024
10:38am, 12 Mar 2024
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GimmeMedals
Ahhh so it's your fault, TRO. It has been so much wetter than I've been used to. We haven't had the occasional mild and sunny winter days this year, the ones when I can sit in the garden to have my afternoon cuppa. We usually manage one or two in January and a few in February. I wondered why that was...
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Mar 2024
10:57am, 12 Mar 2024
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Ness
Now you know, GM. 😉🤣
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Mar 2024
11:27am, 12 Mar 2024
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cathrobinson
We did have snow this time last year. I think I’d sooner that than the persistent rain, however.
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