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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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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WhiskyLassie said:

Yayy what type of crafts

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My Old Landy said:

Mainly wooden stuff and engraved slate. I also have a portable laser and personalise stuff at craft fairs.

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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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Stone56 said:

Lucky lad walked up woodies? ?

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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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marjon said:

We had a big dormer put in upstairs with doors to the terrace and they couldn’t understand why I got a bit un hinged when they wanted to put the big patio doors directly underneath about 6 inches off center .
The explanation was, “well who’s going to notice”.

J

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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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6pot said:

No. One fig tree, no figs. Possibly too young.

We have a grapefruit tree which was grown from a pip. It was 20 years before it bore fruit.

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kevstar said:

You need one of these............

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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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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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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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Stone56 said:

Mist a good v8 efi in the UK lhd good no rust jap inport right colour a bit ****ed of now been looking for a year

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Stone56 said:

And to top it all I've just got a fly in my beer the world is ending

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My Old Landy said:

Mainly wooden stuff and engraved slate. I also have a portable laser and personalise stuff at craft fairs.

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