Josy1953 Posted December 22, 2023 #53626 Share Posted December 22, 2023 I had a very welcome text on my phone when I got up. My niece's husband has said that he will take the children to school this morning so that I don't need to go out in this foul weather. Sometimes it is the little things that mean a lot. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare DamianG Posted December 22, 2023 #53627 Share Posted December 22, 2023 10 hours ago, Presto2 said: Our news is that today we both retired .... It's been an emotional time but now chilling amidst the many Champagne bottles we've been given. Cheaper holidays here we come .... How lovely and what great timing on your part. Christmas to celebrate and a Caribbean cruise to look forward to in the new year, fantastic! Congratulations to both of you. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted December 22, 2023 #53628 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Morning it's 9.c and the high winds have settled down somewhat. I know your expecting a joke about retired pensioners but non of them work. Being retired is a good job and you know your doing it right when all the days seem to merge ,so much fun you ask yourself "what day is it ?" Good news for those who dislike dark mornings .. It's getting a bit more light from today 😃 Have a good day 🙂 7 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josy1953 Posted December 22, 2023 #53629 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Thanks for reminding me that the mornings are going to get a bit lighter. I hate driving when it is dark, I always manage to meet oncoming traffic who don't realise that full beam dazzles the drivers coming from the opposite direction. Since I retired until the last few months I stayed at home until it got light but I don't think the school would accept my niece's children going in late just to suit my dislike of driving in the dark. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted December 22, 2023 #53630 Share Posted December 22, 2023 10 hours ago, Adawn47 said: Almost 14 years for us Phil and it's still good. The best job we've ever had☺️ Avril My mum gets more pension than I get in wages!! 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted December 22, 2023 #53631 Share Posted December 22, 2023 11 hours ago, Presto2 said: Our news is that today we both retired .... It's been an emotional time but now chilling amidst the many Champagne bottles we've been given. Cheaper holidays here we come .... Happy retirement! Not jealous at all…, 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted December 22, 2023 #53632 Share Posted December 22, 2023 8 hours ago, Ardennais said: Best wishes for a very happy retirement. I know full well that teaching is great but restrictive in terms of choosing your own holiday dates, which I’ve been able to do in my new job since leaving teaching in 2019. Not close to being ready to retire though! After 30 years in teaching my sister now works part time in a library! She loves been able to holiday outside of August! She’s also got involved with teaching adults to read arranged by the library. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted December 22, 2023 #53633 Share Posted December 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Josy1953 said: I had a very welcome text on my phone when I got up. My niece's husband has said that he will take the children to school this morning so that I don't need to go out in this foul weather. Sometimes it is the little things that mean a lot. Wow, I’m surprised they’re still in school. Round here most schools broke up Tuesday/Wednesday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted December 22, 2023 #53634 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Morning all, after today I have 5 days off. I’m looking forward to Christmas Day itself as we’ll be all together at our son’s. Mum, John and I, my sister and her husband. Then we have the task of getting everything together for mum’s move on the 29th! I’ve got some stick on name labels from good old Amazon! Hope everyone has a lovely day spent the way they want to. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josy1953 Posted December 22, 2023 #53635 Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 minute ago, P&O SUE said: Wow, I’m surprised they’re still in school. Round here most schools broke up Tuesday/Wednesday. They finish at 13:10 today so only a half day. I have spoken to their dad because when their mum was alive we always took mum and the children out for dinner on the last day of term so I had booked to take them out for lunch today, he said that he knew because they told him this morning that we were picking them up to go for lunch. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted December 22, 2023 #53636 Share Posted December 22, 2023 14 minutes ago, P&O SUE said: Morning all, after today I have 5 days off. I’m looking forward to Christmas Day itself as we’ll be all together at our son’s. Mum, John and I, my sister and her husband. Then we have the task of getting everything together for mum’s move on the 29th! I’ve got some stick on name labels from good old Amazon! Hope everyone has a lovely day spent the way they want to. That sounds lovely! Yes, I remember fixing name labels in my Mum’s clothing & belongings & thinking that life goes round in circles. It didn’t seem that long since I’d been doing it for my children’s school stuff Next year you’ll have the fun of the care home Xmas party. I still smile remembering seeing Father Christmas give one old duck a parcel, carefully explain that it was his special present to her, only to have the reply “Alright. Now b*gger off!”. Bless them. But they were lovely do’s, with singing and mince pies and the staff’s children helping out and having fun. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted December 22, 2023 #53637 Share Posted December 22, 2023 12 hours ago, Presto2 said: Our news is that today we both retired .... It's been an emotional time but now chilling amidst the many Champagne bottles we've been given. Cheaper holidays here we come .... ENJOY! 🎉 It will take you a little while to adjust. There’s a period where you can’t really believe you don’t have to get up and go to work - that it’s all a lovely dream. Then you settle into your contented retirement and wonder how you ever fitted work in to your new, busy schedule 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted December 22, 2023 #53638 Share Posted December 22, 2023 15 hours ago, grapau27 said: Good evening. It is our Sarah's birthday on Christmas eve and I am bringing her to ours on Christmas day and she will stay at ours. Pauline has the table all ready. A special Happy Birthday to your Sarah from me Graham. 🎂. We Xmas birthdays have to stick together I’m sure you’ll all have a wonderful time 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiana123 Posted December 22, 2023 #53639 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Sometimes we look at the calendar and moan as we have booked too many things. Sometimes we ask each other what we have planned and the answer is 'nothing'. BUT the most asked question is "what day is it?" (That is apart from "Now what did I come in this room for!") 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobstheboy Posted December 22, 2023 #53640 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Many congratulations to you both. The best decision I ever made 27 years ago. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted December 22, 2023 #53641 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Apparently, because of leap years and 365 and a quarter day revolutions, the solstice this year is today, 22nd, not 21st as we generally think So 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsgoggins Posted December 22, 2023 #53642 Share Posted December 22, 2023 15 hours ago, grapau27 said: Good evening. It is our Sarah's birthday on Christmas eve and I am bringing her to ours on Christmas day and she will stay at ours. Pauline has the table all ready. That all looks fabulous and so inviting Graham! It's DH's birthday on Christmas Eve and we are going out for lunch to our favourite Italian restaurant. Christmas Day is spent with our son and family. His DW is vegetarian, so I cook the turkey crown and a veggie main and set off 40 miles up the M6. The turkey will be well rested by then! Good wishes to all whose lives I follow on here, those who are semi-lurkers (like myself) and also full-time lurkers. A happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas and New Year to all. 4 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted December 22, 2023 #53643 Share Posted December 22, 2023 59 minutes ago, P&O SUE said: My mum gets more pension than I get in wages!! I have to admit that we're better off being retired, but we had to plan for it. It also helps not having any travel costs either☺️ Avril 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincslady Posted December 22, 2023 #53644 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Thank goodness for the shortest day having arrived. Re clothes in a care home - when I had respite care for a few weeks, and it applied to everybody, they put a little button with the room number on it to identify you, no need for tapes. I would have thought this was usual practice, and they are not a nuisance - just a bit hard to get off when you no longer need them! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted December 22, 2023 #53645 Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 minute ago, Adawn47 said: I have to admit that we're better off being retired, but we had to plan for it. It also helps not having any travel costs either☺️ Avril The main reason is of course that those not working do not pay NI contributions, nor do they need to pay any pension contributions. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare twotravellersLondon Posted December 22, 2023 #53646 Share Posted December 22, 2023 For those who weren't with the 5,000+ folk from all over the country in the Albert Hall for the Carol Concert yesterday evening... those of us who were there were encouraged to photo and video some of the performance and pass on the joy to others. IMG_3115.mov 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted December 22, 2023 #53647 Share Posted December 22, 2023 46 minutes ago, Eddie99 said: A special Happy Birthday to your Sarah from me Graham. 🎂. We Xmas birthdays have to stick together I’m sure you’ll all have a wonderful time My youngest grandson will be 27 on Christmas Day, so that's another one for your list. Avril 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splice the mainbrace Posted December 22, 2023 #53648 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Wind as moderated somewhat after being strong all day yesterday, our neighbours are having to redo their outside Christmas lights. I met up with ex work colleagues yesterday for a Christmas drink and it was exactly 5 years since I retired ( I don’t know where the time has gone). The work place has changed so much since covid with very flexible working days in the office and when hours are worked. Also they now ‘hot desk’ where you don’t have your own desk, to me part of making going to work more bare able was having a desk that was yours arranged to your own liking with personal items permanently around you. One negative thing that retirement has brought me is laziness, when I worked I planned and did at the weekends tasks in my free time, now I put things off knowing I could do things at any time but often put it off and off 😃 Oh another thing is that I worry more about things as I have more time to think about them, when working it was very busy at work and at home where there was little time to think and contemplate things. Everything else though 👍 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohnonotmeagain Posted December 22, 2023 #53649 Share Posted December 22, 2023 I don't come on "here" as much as I used to, so just catching up with everything......goodness a lot has been going on, both good, bad and utterly dreadful! Anyway wishing everyone a Happy Christmas 🎄 and hope next year everyone's dreams and wishes come true. Love to you all ❤️ 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josy1953 Posted December 22, 2023 #53650 Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 hour ago, P&O SUE said: My mum gets more pension than I get in wages!! Sue, I think that is true of a lot of pensioners particularly those of us who were part of a final salary pension scheme. I feel sorry for the younger people who are going to have to work longer and won't get such good pensions at the end. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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