tinker Posted December 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted December 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Xann said: My Folks decided retiring to somewhere beautiful, but remote was the way to go. It f***ked them up royally. Mum particularly. Dad had a vast garden to play around in, Mum was in the house alone for much of the time, and her mental capability nosedived. Obviously there's a genetic disposition to mental and physical entropy in old age, but I think if it's not nailed on? The way you live your life has a serious bearing on your ability to keep your shit together in the later stages. If you don't think you could keep yourself engaged in the later years? I can see the attraction of staying in work. I cant get my head around people who move to remote/foreign lands when they retire, surely that's the time to stay next to civilization and health systems you know and understand? I get the need to travel but just rent abroad and rent your house out here, if you need the money. I have friends that have moved to mid Wales, no friends there, no public transport and they travel back to brum for dental work, god help them if they need health care. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 7 hours ago, sidcow said: I'll retire at the drop of a hat the second those figures stack up. 2 other people I work with purely work to fund their extensive travel plans that they wouldn't be able to keep up with in retirement. That's me. Once the numbers work, it's me gone from full time work. I may work somewhere else part time, for social/mental well being reasons, but a stressful job five days a week? That can GTFO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 8 hours ago, delboy54 said: He has no outside interests and the rest of the family think that he prefers being at work, plus as he has no interests outside work, we think its work that's keeping him going and without work his mental and physical health will deteriorate. Sad isn't it? It is a bit sad really. Must be the same for a lot of people though, with no real interests outside work. Every man needs a hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 5 hours ago, tinker said: I cant get my head around people who move to remote/foreign lands when they retire, surely that's the time to stay next to civilization and health systems you know and understand? I get the need to travel but just rent abroad and rent your house out here, if you need the money. I have friends that have moved to mid Wales, no friends there, no public transport and they travel back to brum for dental work, god help them if they need health care. My folks went from Brum to Shropshire. Urban to semi rural, but still close enough to places like Wellington, and Telford town centre. They were making noises about going to Mid Wales, and proper rural, but that seems to have (thankfully) died down a bit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 7 hours ago, tinker said: I cant get my head around people who move to remote/foreign lands when they retire, surely that's the time to stay next to civilization and health systems you know and understand? It was Scotland, a couple of miles from a major A road, 5 miles from a train station and good NHS. Though the roads from that A road to their home would be the last to be cleared. They were often snowed in, one time for 10 days. The roads were shocking too. You could be on quite a narrow twisty bit and suddenly the side of the road would just be gone, and you'd have to cross the white line and drive in the middle, or be down the slope with the missing bit of the road. Lots of trees and debris when storms hit too. To make it even more complicated, their eyes deteriorated, driving at night became an issue. They drove less and less, and became more and more isolated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 23, 2023 Share Posted December 23, 2023 My parents moved to France, now isolated from everyone and seem fairly miserable about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted February 10 Popular Post Share Posted February 10 (edited) Four pints last night. It might as well have been fourteen, the way I felt this morning! Sign of getting older I think. It was lager, so maybe its my own fault. Edited February 10 by Xela 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 10 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10 8 minutes ago, Xela said: It was lager, so maybe its my own fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Just now, sidcow said: It was a works thing so the venues were out of my direct control. Otherwise i'd have been at the PoW! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted February 11 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11 11 hours ago, Xela said: Four pints last night. It might as well have been fourteen, the way I felt this morning! Sign of getting older I think. It was lager, so maybe its my own fault. 3/4 of a bottle of white wine Friday, 1st drink in a few months, felt like I had been on back to back all day sessions sessions in the morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 I think I've realised the last week I'm no longer the spring chicken I think I am. Turned 40 last year. I'm no temple of fitness but everything seems to do what it should still. The last week I've been struck down by something. Virus, infection, not sure what but it's floored me. I missed 4 days of work, high temp, sweats, sneezing, snotty, cough and the worst aches in every bone in my body. Also had really bad ear ache just to top it all off. Before, I'd get maybe a cold once or twice a year and just get on with it. But this has been a bit of an eye opener that I might need to ditch the smoking and start being a bit more conscious of my everyday health. On the plus side, I've lost 8lbs of unwanted Xmas excess, appetite has been zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Follyfoot Posted February 11 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 11 14 hours ago, Xela said: Four pints last night. It might as well have been fourteen, the way I felt this morning! Sign of getting older I think. It was lager, so maybe its my own fault. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 52 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Haha, I love my ales The venues didn't sell any though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 27 VT Supporter Share Posted February 27 I was reading a novel from the 90s to my son last night and it talked about having small toys in boxes of cereal. Made me realise that despite this once being a very common thing, I think it now no longer happens at all. Got me wondering what else used to be a common occurrence but has now disappeared without anyone really noticing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Follyfoot Posted February 28 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 28 On 27/02/2024 at 13:27, Rds1983 said: I was reading a novel from the 90s to my son last night and it talked about having small toys in boxes of cereal. Made me realise that despite this once being a very common thing, I think it now no longer happens at all. Got me wondering what else used to be a common occurrence but has now disappeared without anyone really noticing? finding porn in hedges and white dogshit 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted February 28 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28 2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: finding porn in hedges and white dogshit glue sniffing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 28 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28 13 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: finding porn in hedges and white dogshit Blimey, you must have been desperate to look for porn in white dogshit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 21 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Blimey, you must have been desperate to look for porn in white dogshit. Somebody complained (possibly in this thread) about use of the Oxford comma the other day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 28 Moderator Share Posted February 28 3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Somebody complained (possibly in this thread) about use of the Oxford comma the other day. Yeah saw that. IIRC they were complaining about it happening every single time, even when not needed. Either that or they didn't understand what an Oxford comma actually is. It was definitely needed above 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 28 VT Supporter Share Posted February 28 On 27/02/2024 at 13:27, Rds1983 said: I was reading a novel from the 90s to my son last night and it talked about having small toys in boxes of cereal. Made me realise that despite this once being a very common thing, I think it now no longer happens at all. Got me wondering what else used to be a common occurrence but has now disappeared without anyone really noticing? Dogshit in the street is a big one. Not that it's gone altogether but it was almost a daily occurrence as a kid that we'd walk it through the house after stepping in it on the way home from school. In the city centre it's now been replaced by human shit mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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