I would just like to say

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marjon said:
I watched my dad and my uncles work their fingers to the bone past retirement age, and voweled it wasn’t going to be me.

I really don’t care if they move the goalposts now.
I was worried the first time I retired, which was why (maybe) I went back to work for a few more years (twice, long storey).
Don’t waste your spare cash on wine, women and song, or is it fast women and fast cars 🤔 something like that anyway, you get the gist:).

J
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I was meaning state pension age. I'm properly preparing to retire as soon as.
Also I don't waste wine I need wine 🤣
 
marjon said:
I watched my dad and my uncles work their fingers to the bone past retirement age, and voweled it wasn’t going to be me.

I really don’t care if they move the goalposts now.
I was worried the first time I retired, which was why (maybe) I went back to work for a few more years (twice, long storey).
Don’t waste your spare cash on wine, women and song, or is it fast women and fast cars 🤔 something like that anyway, you get the gist:).

J
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Ooooppppps too late 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
This sort of stuff @WhiskyLassie
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6pot said:
It is usually possible to twist the pipes out by hand - there was another fitting on the end which is now mangled but that came off. The length of the whole run was critical so I pushed them all the way home to get it right, that one was stuck. Maybe the internal bore had a lump or flaw.

I did consider a hacksaw blade inside but was worried I would make a mess of it, not helped by it being an angled fitting and there is a shoulder inside which the pipe should fit up to and it would have been difficult not to damage that, or the inside face of the bore.

The nearest big DIY place is In fact a 95km round trip! I would have gone to a big plumbing shop I use and prefer to use uniform parts so once a job is started...

To be fair I might have been able to get one in the village but no guarantee, but it would have still had to wait till Monday and by contrast it was all finished last night. Its only 6km to the village and back but the car records 50km of fuel usage due to a very steep hill! Come to think of it according to the car's computer there's only 40km-worth left and no petrol station there so a return trip the village was a no-no anyway.
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At that kilometrage it would seem to make sense to order over tinternet!
 
6pot said:
Wow that's one productive tree.

I'll be picking grapes at the end of the month, almonds at the end of Sep and oranges at Christmas.
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Grapes, soooo does you make your own vino?? 🤣 🤣 🤣
Bizarrely in the Uk we do have a huge grapevine which produces table grapes with a hint of strawberries in the taste. We did try to make wine from them once, treading them in the old fashioned way, but we picked too early to save as many as we could from the burds that normally eat them and I had to adjust the flavour chemically to make it palatable. That said it was OK.
 
6pot said:
Well I didn't want to open up another load of conflab and I can't remember your original post but I think I broadly agreed with it and also your above post.

I'm not taking any pensions yet and will probably never truly retire, both occupational schemes are old and tiny and the personal one isn't great. In fact I'm thinking of contributing to it again using the spare money gained from no longer paying the premiums on two life assurance policies (one each) which expired and couldn't be extended. Better use of the money.

Too young to get state pension and its been moved back a few times, probably won't get it till I'm 70 at this rate but the NI top up is not a lot of money and all the above will be a collection of small incomes which could add up to something OK.

I don't consider the state pension to be a benefit, its already fairly low by many standards and I feel the whole scheme is badly managed with no form of investment and payments just coming out of today's tax revenue. Not sustainable in the long-term.
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(Caution: low flying politiks, shhhhh!)
 
kevstar said:
You need one of these............

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We do constantly wish we had one, especially when picking them inevitably causes one or two to just fall off.
One that fell, as a load have done, just cos it had reached that stage, hit W fair and square in the middle of the back. Others hit me in various places as I pulled others off. One in the face made me a little sweary!
But there isn't a way round it. We ain't pros!
 
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Stone56 said:
Will you make it to that most of EU its 60 Spain 55 UK till you drop 😬😬
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The French kicked off like flip whan it was moved up from 62 to 64. FFS! and their state pension is so liveable on that many folks don't bother with anything else.

And yet still so many pensioners in the UK v............ oops, just stopped myself in time!!
 
Stone56 said:
mine failed a bit of oil on the underside over here you get 14 days to get it shorted so got home and jet blasted it took it back all ok past
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That's a fail?
Even though the MOT over here has been modified so that an oil leak can be a fail there is a test that it has to fail before it can "fail" if you see what I mean. The STF leak I had a while back would have been a fail until I got it fixed.
But it can still be covered in oil leaks and pass. When the Disco 2 was last MOTed one of the advisories was "oil leak" I asked the tester, "Where from?" He just laughed and said "Everywhere!".
 
marjon said:
I watched my dad and my uncles work their fingers to the bone past retirement age, and voweled it wasn’t going to be me.

I really don’t care if they move the goalposts now.
I was worried the first time I retired, which was why (maybe) I went back to work for a few more years (twice, long storey).
Don’t waste your spare cash on wine, women and song, or is it fast women and fast cars 🤔 something like that anyway, you get the gist:).

J
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"Waste?" Really?
That was money well spent when I did it for the first 9 years of my life before getting married for the first time!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
 
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