The Retirement Thread
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26 Jul
7:14am, 26 Jul 2024
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GregP
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26 Jul
7:15am, 26 Jul 2024
152,563 posts
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GregP
That could have gone better.
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26 Jul
7:16am, 26 Jul 2024
50,540 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
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26 Jul
7:25am, 26 Jul 2024
9,024 posts
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westmoors
Angus Clydesdale wrote: Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know anything about Tenerife in December? I was there last Christmas (Puerto Santiago). It was pleasantly warm, although a couple of the trips we went on did advise to take some warm clothing (which we didn't have) as it can be cooler inland. |
26 Jul
7:52am, 26 Jul 2024
21,566 posts
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Cerrertonia
We went to Tenerife in late December/ early January when the kids were small, it was pretty nice - low 20 degrees C, everything was open and reasonably busy. Obviously, Mt. Teide and other mountains over 3000 metres are going to need cold weather gear whatever time of year you go.
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26 Jul
8:22am, 26 Jul 2024
43,346 posts
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Ness
Angus Clydesdale wrote: Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know anything about Tenerife in December? Mr Ness and I have had a few Christmas holidays on Tenerife while I was still teaching. Mainly in the Los Gigantes area but also Puerto Santiago. Always had lovely weather. Like westmoors we found we needed warmer clothes for going on some excursions (like Mount Teide and the star gazing tour). Mr Ness and I have had fab holidays there. Now I'm retired we plan on having a having a month on Gran Canaria in January instead. |
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26 Jul
8:26am, 26 Jul 2024
152,566 posts
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GregP
Thanks @HappyG(rrr) - be ready 
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26 Jul
8:30am, 26 Jul 2024
39,346 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
Madeira is 68 to 72F all the time. Go and see some 'canals'.
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26 Jul
9:06am, 26 Jul 2024
27,503 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Thanks folks
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26 Jul
11:14am, 26 Jul 2024
70,102 posts
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Velociraptor
Major rite of passage to declare. After several emails from the GMC with escalating threats to start proceedings to remove me from the medical register unless I jump through a hoop on the website, and several failed attempts to get on to the section of the website containing said hoop, I've had a very long 'phone discussion with a nice IT chap who also couldn't get me into the relevant part of the website but was able to withdraw my licence to practise over the 'phone and has promised to send me a form for voluntary erasure from the Medical Register. And was possibly the first person from the various ivory towers to thank me for my service. I know he was reading from a script, but still, nice to have and all that. Still not saying I'll never work again, but I'm no longer that kid who wanted to be a doctor. |
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