Turning 60 and retiring

[Tworrs]

That is an amazing length of service Andrea, well done Sir, and congratulations on your retirement.
Now enjoy that retirement like a lot of us do.
All of the very best
Garry

[colin m]

Enjoy.

[Guest]

Congratulations on your retirement...

Now I bet you think you are going to live the life of luxury, laying in bed to all hours of the day, coffee served in bed, morning 'muchamucha' HA! you can forget all that. Have you seen the list she has had hidden for months, all the work, visiting here and there, sitting listening to the relatives drone on and on about who has died and who is playing with who, while you day dream of that latest model calling you to the bench........
Seriously, enjoy it, I am now in a routine of domestic work first and then in the afternoon it is my time - oh! and the relatives have lost interest in me since the free booze and duty free ciggies dried up.

[Guest]

I wish you all the best on your retirement. (Even if it is a trap and you end up working harder doing all the things you have managed to swerve around). :smiling2:
Forty years, wowsers, that is quite some time but if you enjoy the work it flies past. Like all service and ex service folk of any nationality, I bet there a few good camp fire stories. I wrote all mine down so that when I get totally ga-ga I'll know what I got up to!!!
All the best, now, boots off, and enjoy the future. You deserve it.

Keep it hidden, if SWMBO gets a look at it, you will need more than a nursing home.... :smiling:

[Andy the Sheep]

Thank you to everybody for the congrats, the warm welcome into the "6 Saturdays 1 Sunday" Club and, above all, for all the tips and advices about the differences between the retirement life one usually dreams of and the actual one. :rolling: :smiling:
About SWMBO's list... after a long process of furnishing, decorating and personalizing our new home and garden, I perfectly know that thrill down the spine when she, completely out of the blue and possibly early in the morning when a normal man's reactions are seldom those of a creature at the top of the food chain, exclaims "I've just come up with an idea..." :surprised::astonished::anguished::tongue-out3:

[Waspie]

exclaims "I've just come up with an idea..." :surprised::astonished::anguished::tongue-out3:

Funny you should say that!!!!
That very sentence was mentioned this morning!!!!

[Flip]

Andy,
Sorry for the late reply, just picked up the thread. A hearty welcome to the retirement club! May it be a long and fruitful time for you.

[Sunburst Finish]

Congrats from another ex serviceman. Retirement is fantastic, enjoy.

[Lee W]

Adrift on this one Andrea, congratulations on your retirement enjoy it mate

[Waspie]

Adrift on this one Andrea, congratulations on your retirement enjoy it mate

A days stoppage for you me-lad!!!!!

[minitnkr]

I encourage my wife to sleep in to avoid such unpleasantness.

[Lee W]

A days stoppage for you me-lad!!!!!

I'll get me cap...

[boatman]

(Mike qoute )

Now I bet you think you are going to live the life of luxury, laying in bed to all hours of the day, coffee served in bed, morning 'muchamucha' HA! you can forget all that. Have you seen the list she has had hidden for months, all the work, visiting here and there, sitting listening to the relatives drone on and on about who has died and who is playing with who, while you day dream of that latest model calling you to the bench........

yes mike how very true when i get pulled over ma in laws i have to sit in between 3 women all talkin about other people an yes who has died while i dream of how to get over an eletric problem on tiger or i take my dvd player an sit an whatch STARGATE SG1 an dream im with amanda tappens lol
chrisb

chrisb

[Steve Brodie]

enjoy the downtime

[Bri62]

Enjoy Andy mate,and I thought 20 years in the RN was a good stint