tatsblisters 7,950 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 16 hours ago, fred90 said: Cheers mate, I have got myself a little wasp uniphoxx, started a few shots last week. just using a light setup to start with,. .55 and 8.7mm steels. been off work 14 week, if this is what retirement is I am fxxking loving it. trouble is I will soon be captured and sent back. Not bad little frames them mate. Glad you are on the mend. I can't get my head around some of them I work with who have carried on working after getting their state pension it's probably down to not having any other interests to occupy their time I've got nearly 4 years to go and soon as the state pension drops in the bank I am done with work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,100 Posted July 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 1 hour ago, tatsblisters said: Not bad little frames them mate. Glad you are on the mend. I can't get my head around some of them I work with who have carried on working after getting their state pension it's probably down to not having any other interests to occupy their time I've got nearly 4 years to go and soon as the state pension drops in the bank I am done with work. can't fault you mate, I have got a bit longer to go, but if I can afford to finish earlier I will do. when you have interests boredom don't come into it. dogs have loved it, out every day no time limits. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 1,787 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 I'm in a similar, though different, boat. I had a semi-forced retirement three years ago (at the age of almost fifty one) as the infant school where I'd been working as the in-house supply was "taken over" by the juniors next door. New broom and all that jazz. I can start drawing my teaching pension next year (when I turn fifty five). I'm loving being the house-husband. I could never understand the kids at school who were restless to get back to school after the six week summer holiday because they were bored. I could've spent weeks more, wandering the local fields and the disused railway line, reading books, listening to music, watching tv... By "the kids at school" I mean forty years ago not the ones I was teaching. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,045 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 I envy the folks that had foresite to sort life and get good pension sorted for early retirement FairPlay. I all ways lived for today unfortunately. So work to pension age then be skint on state pension I guess but long as I can keep getting about that will do me. Just wish it came ten years earlier 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,100 Posted July 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 54 minutes ago, terryd said: I envy the folks that had foresite to sort life and get good pension sorted for early retirement FairPlay. I all ways lived for today unfortunately. So work to pension age then be skint on state pension I guess but long as I can keep getting about that will do me. Just wish it came ten years earlier that comes from before everything mate being able to get about. love to be young again, different dogs and out regularly on land up down country, but it's not going to happen. older now but knocking about with little whippet types, little Jill, half dozen net's, catapult etc, it costs nothing and I am enjoying it as much as anything. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aled 364 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 Get well soon fred. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,045 Posted July 25, 2023 Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 Yes get well well Fred I like look of your new catty. Did you have a scout at one point ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,100 Posted July 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2023 19 minutes ago, terryd said: Yes get well well Fred I like look of your new catty. Did you have a scout at one point ? no not tried scout, had a wasp before but my thumb wasn't strong enough for brace grip. now I have had bone fusion thought I would give it another go. really like the wasp now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 7,950 Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 19 hours ago, fred90 said: that comes from before everything mate being able to get about. love to be young again, different dogs and out regularly on land up down country, but it's not going to happen. older now but knocking about with little whippet types, little Jill, half dozen net's, catapult etc, it costs nothing and I am enjoying it as much as anything. I think as you get older sometimes it's just simple things that become enjoyable when out and about mooching been out this morning though it don't feel the same without a dog though had to get a bit of practise in with the catty can't wait for the cover and leaves to drop now. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,045 Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 That is true. If I rattle one rabbit around the shop with the dog that’s brilliant. That’s me happy or a squirrel or pheasant. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,100 Posted July 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 1 hour ago, tatsblisters said: I think as you get older sometimes it's just simple things that become enjoyable when out and about mooching been out this morning though it don't feel the same without a dog though had to get a bit of practise in with the catty can't wait for the cover and leaves to drop now. have you no dog now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 7,950 Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 55 minutes ago, fred90 said: have you no dog now? No mate first time since I were 10 not having a dog around me and I'm 62 now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fred90 3,100 Posted July 26, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 19 minutes ago, tatsblisters said: No mate first time since I were 10 not having a dog around me and I'm 62 now. any plans? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 7,950 Posted July 26, 2023 Report Share Posted July 26, 2023 38 minutes ago, fred90 said: any plans? Going away in September so will have a think about it when I get back off holiday. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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