I need to get out more...

[Bixxer Bob]

Ok, I'll be the first to admit I'm not getting enough contact with other human beings at the moment so apologies in advance for this post.

I bought one of these yesterday:



I was sold, not on the fact that it's a "Which Magazine" best buy, or the "most powerful iron on the market", but on one review that I read about it:

"This iron is made by Bosch so it's not really an iron, it's a power tool.  This is a bloke's iron, an iron for men.  It's the most powerful iron in the universe, it is the Vader of all irons.  This is Darth Iron and the force is stong within it".

Whoever wrote that should be in marketing....

 :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

[Mustang]

Ok, I'll be the first to admit I'm not getting enough contact with other human beings at the moment .................

retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be is it ?   :roll:

[Bixxer Bob]

It's not that I'm not busy, it's more a shortage of intelligent conversation.  I'm now registered as self-employed which gives me the odd tax break; but it's the quiet season.  I've been maintaining my fitness level by running these last few frosty mornings which I enjoyed more than I thought I would and I'm filling my time with charity work and helping the elderly but it's not the same as having a work-led peer group.  

Once I've finished doing up my daughter's flat (apartment) my wife has a list of decorating to be done, and it looks like we'll be moving to Norfolk in the late spring so there's no obvious let-up.  We're off to Tibet in April but I hope to get some touring in after that.  If I can find the time... :roll:

Are you retired too then...?

[Mustang]

pretty much ....busy all the time but do miss the social aspect of *gasp* work

[KuzzinKenny]

It's not that I'm not busy, it's more a shortage of intelligent conversation.

Well that leaves me out then  :roll:  :oops:  :?

KK

ps and i know nowt about irons  :lol:

[oxnsox]

Clearly not a golfer then Kenny...

[John Stenhouse]

I have mother to talk to, I'm her carer, poor dear has vascular dementia so intelligent conversation is shall we say a little circular!  :lol:

Took her to France for ten days in September, every morning she woke up and asked if we were going home that day. Got a tad repetitive, so I took her home.

Next day she woke up first thing she said was, "Can we go out?"


ARRRGGGGH!

Sometimes I give up  :D

Don't take me too seriously fellas, she's great fun most of the time.

[Bixxer Bob]

Sorry to hear that John.

I had a customer last week that is nursing her husband with dementia.  It's tough to watch, must be hell to go through.  I've told my wife (10yrs my younger) to shoot me if I go that way...

For me the last few days have been better, this cold snap has brought a spate of quick well-paying jobs.  It seems that even UPVC doors are not immune to the effects of weather.  A lot of sticking locks for one reason or another, and broken keys and higher cost for those using brute force 'cos they're too tight to call me when it sticks in the first place!! :lol:

[Chris Canning]

Well I was made redundant 4 years ago from a job I'd hated and detested for 37 years,since then I could write a book,technically I'd class myself as a motorcycle mover,which has ranged from driving the demo truck for Ducati,to test riding bikes for MCN,rather funny seeing postings on the net about a new model coming out and I've had the prototype in my garage.

After 4 years that have ranged from collecting a bike out of Copenhagen airport,to standing a bike vertical in a two man lift to get it up 6 floors,I'm off doing something else,but still do the odd job with the bike trade,even if I did write that book folks wouldn't beleave a lot of it  :roll:

I'll tell the story one day of the test ride when the guy in front fell off and chopped the bike in half :shock:

Retired?? sometimes  :D

[KuzzinKenny]

Clearly not a golfer then Kenny...

    ME GOLF    

i woundn't know what end of the bat to hold    

KK