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I hope the weather is better than forecast for you! Lucky you going to the Lakes. Me? I'm off back to the town where we used to live for a couple of days, depsite the 4 cases of Covid-19 there. Luckily not my son, who tested negative in Abu Dhabi and was able to get home a couple of days ago. His...
Posted by Gwyn on 06/03/2020 - 10:06
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Well the stock market is in free fall this morning after falling all week, so there go my savings and pension fund. It’s going to take years which I don’t have to get back to the level of a month ago. It doesn’t look as if I can give up working any time soon even though most people my age are either...
Posted by RobL on 09/03/2020 - 08:33
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His Nibs main pension fund, which had to be used to buy anannuity under Dutch law, was hit by the last downturn, when interest rates dropped dramtically in the months before he could retire. Between that and the pound/euro rates for his British pensions we have had a big cut in what we had hoped to ...
Posted by Gwyn on 09/03/2020 - 17:22
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His Nibs main pension fund, which had to be used to buy anannuity under Dutch law, was hit by the last downturn, when interest rates dropped dramtically in the months before he could retire. Between that and the pound/euro rates for his British pensions we have had a big cut in what we had hoped to ...
Posted by RobL on 09/03/2020 - 18:54
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Well I'm of the generation who expect not to get any kind of pension in the end at all anyway still maybe 35 to 40 years wait for me! But that's another issue.... A friends company has sent everyone off to work from home from today. We are still waiting to hear what the plan is. Some people have ...
Posted by Jetsam1 on 12/03/2020 - 09:44
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Most of our pension comes from what we saved over the years. His Nibs company didn't initially have a pension plan so we set one up for ourselves, hence the Annuity. Just as well as the pension funds here are not doing great and some pensioners are facing cuts in their pensions. Stock markets and lo...
Posted by Gwyn on 12/03/2020 - 11:48
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None in Tesco last Tuesday evening, but it was on the list 'cos we were getting low. I mentioned to a shelf-stacker how ridiculous it was and normal shoppers like me would have to suffer for the silliness of the rest. "Never mind", says I, "I've used newspaper in Russia and come to no harm". "People...
Posted by Lubbyman on 14/03/2020 - 23:14
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Saw one yesterday written on the back of a dirty white van, amused me for a few seconds :-)
Posted by Chrism8 on 18/03/2020 - 15:53
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Hope all works out for your sons Gwyn. Just back from the local supermarket, all I want is a bag of bread flour, can I find any? No!:( As the lad on the check out told me " people thinlk their going to bake bread, but nobody's buying yeast!":? You couldn't make it up, I bake my bread, ha...
Posted by Hardgravity on 19/03/2020 - 09:52
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Thanks HG. We too are just back from the supermarket. There was little fresh veg, no eggs and no normal flour but bread making packs galore. Dried and "fresh" pasta (death date early May) by the tonne, unless you wanted macaroni. Only expensive tins of tomatoes too. There were I think four oth...
Posted by Gwyn on 19/03/2020 - 10:45
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DH just stocked up a few crates of beer, since it was on offer. Just chatted with youngest grandson. I was curious how he was coping with digital schooling, since he has mild ADHD and short term memory problems. He said it is great, and he although he misses his friends he really like working at ...
Posted by Gwyn on 19/03/2020 - 20:29
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The sun is shining. The birds are singing. The flowers are flowering and the leaves are leaving. Must be spring :) . We had the tyres changed on the car yesterday, put the summer tyres back on - so it was -4 last night of course :roll:. Not that we are going anywhere, but we live in hope.
Posted by Gwyn on 21/03/2020 - 12:06
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I’m in for the long haul, just dug up a flower bed and am planting salads and veg., and tomatoes in what is laughingly called the greenhouse. I reckon it will be quicker than waiting for Sainsbury’s to restock. All very photogenic of course! You mean you managed to buy seeds?? Apparently they, along...
Posted by Gwyn on 21/03/2020 - 16:34
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I’m in for the long haul, just dug up a flower bed and am planting salads and veg., and tomatoes in what is laughingly called the greenhouse. I reckon it will be quicker than waiting for Sainsbury’s to restock. All very photogenic of course! You mean you managed to buy seeds?? Apparently they, along...
Posted by Aitch53 on 21/03/2020 - 18:47
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Why is the telly even more rubbish when everyone is stuck inside than normal?? I see what you mean - Match of the Day talking about matches that aren't of the day. Major channels showing repeats that have already been broadcast this week on the minor channels. Wife watching something cultural and li...
Posted by Lubbyman on 21/03/2020 - 23:01
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What a great looking shop! We have a hardware store round the corner which stocks all sorts, though not so much household things. When we moved in here we (I) had put all the keys to the china cupboard and TV cupboard in a safe place, but to this day I have no idea where. His Nibs went along to t...
Posted by Gwyn on 22/03/2020 - 10:22
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Door keys! Decades ago, during relocation to Bristol, I was in temporary accommodation in a cheap 3-bed terrace house on an estate in Yate, just outside the city, Few months later the house was burgled whilst I was out one evening and the back door was open, called the police etc., and then f...
Posted by jeallen01 on 22/03/2020 - 18:10
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The illness for most is mild but for some it is really serious and extremely painful and can result in permanent damage to the lungs. Not only the old. We do not want to end up like Italy and Spain, but both the UK and NL are heading that way. Very true. Whilst in Russia some years back, several of ...
Posted by K10D on 23/03/2020 - 19:11
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We are being asked to stay at home. It is not difficult. Unfortunately, I still have to work. [Our] business is identified as a key industry so it's very much business as usual, which causes a headache for when the other half goes back to work (NHS) after her week off which she booked at the beginni...
Posted by Benz3ne on 24/03/2020 - 08:30
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Unless these masks are air tight I don't see how the can be of use. There was a gentleman giving evidence to the select committee on Corvid-19 the other day. He was trying to convey the size of a virus, he used the analogy that if a hippo was a bacteria the oxpeckers on its back were the virus.
Posted by bforbes on 24/03/2020 - 12:05
