The Retirement Thread

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25 Jun
10:37am, 25 Jun 2024
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EvilPixie
Plotting a long run via ice cream
25 Jun
10:39am, 25 Jun 2024
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Ness
Sounds good
25 Jun
11:20am, 25 Jun 2024
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Johnny Blaze
I’ve done a poo pick in the chicken coop and a pile of ironing. Mrs B has made a quiche for tea tonight and it looks mega.
25 Jun
12:49pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Mandymoo
I have e been for a bike ride to work out a route for my little work job this weekend. It's a 22 mile loop and very pleasant. I can honestly probably for the first time ever, I am looking forward to going to work 😁
25 Jun
2:44pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Gromit
Having just looked at the list of those with one eye on the door / waiting lounge .. seems i can stick my name down ........ July 2030 ;-) ..... not that i'm counting down via an app or anything but thats 6 years and 15 days ;-)
25 Jun
2:45pm, 25 Jun 2024
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TROSaracen
You just feel somehow it will end up with us playing the Germans…..
25 Jun
2:46pm, 25 Jun 2024
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TROSaracen
Oooops wrong thread 😃😃😃

Maybe I should move to the senior moments thread🤣🤣
25 Jun
4:37pm, 25 Jun 2024
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Sigh
I've added you, @Gromit
25 Jun
4:39pm, 25 Jun 2024
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EvilPixie
Spent all afternoon reading and have finished my book 😁
26 Jun
11:43am, 26 Jun 2024
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TROSaracen
On a train, couple of blokes on the phone giving usual business talk bollox. ‘Drivers of change’, ‘benchmarks’, ‘windows of opportunities’ flying about. So glad I don’t have to live this bullshit on daily basis.

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Jaks (15.05.24) (third time of retiring)
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Hanneke (01.02.24)
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Sigh (28.07.23)
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Bob! (30.03.23)
Velociraptor (21.03.23)
Garfield (provisional, 27.02.23) (see p.699)
ThorntonRunner (20.12.22)
MaltDrinker (30.07.21)
DoricQuine (15.06.21)
Mandymoo (21.05.21)
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um (May 2017)
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In the Waiting Lounge, with one eye on the door

Roobarb (20.12.2024)
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westmoors (31.03.25 confirmed)
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geordiegirl (target: July 2025)
GeneHunt59 (target: July 2025)
RRR-CAZ (September 2025)
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Bigleggy (target: December 2025)
HappyG (target: end of 2025 at the earliest)

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OverTheHillToo (target: approx. 2026)

Diogenes (17.03.27)

Hills of Death (HOD) (April 2026-April 2030)
Gromit (July 2030)
CK2 (2030)

[other names to follow, on request]

Just browsing at the moment

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