SteveHB Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 *Happy Birthday* Carlie, hope its a goodun :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 *Happy Birthday* Carlie, hope its a goodun Cheers SteveHB, now I'm officially a pensioner and work is over, freedom awaits. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Cheers SteveHB, now I'm officially a pensioner and work is over, freedom awaits. Happy Birthday Carlie, and welcome to the World of Leisure! I've been retired a few years now, and if my experience is anything to go by, you'll be busier than ever. The thing is, you can be busy just doing the things you enjoy! (Well, most of the time!) Have a long and happy retirement. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Happy Birthday Carlie, and welcome to the World of Leisure! I've been retired a few years now, and if my experience is anything to go by, you'll be busier than ever. The thing is, you can be busy just doing the things you enjoy! (Well, most of the time!) Have a long and happy retirement. Thanks Bayleaf, I think thats the thing I'm looking to the most, just having the time to spend doing my own things and not thinking I ought to be getting ready for work. There are lots of hobbies and interests I want to get around to, and now I have no excuse! I have lost count of the number of people who have said "But what will you do all day?. Won't you be bored?" Er, no!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Thanks Bayleaf, I think thats the thing I'm looking to the most, just having the time to spend doing my own things and not thinking I ought to be getting ready for work. There are lots of hobbies and interests I want to get around to, and now I have no excuse! I have lost count of the number of people who have said "But what will you do all day?. Won't you be bored?" Er, no!! I'm sure you wont.Shortly after I retired I met my old boss who'd been retired some time. He gave me one piece of advice I've found very good, that's always go to bed at night knowing at least one thing you must do tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 I'm sure you wont.Shortly after I retired I met my old boss who'd been retired some time. He gave me one piece of advice I've found very good, that's always go to bed at night knowing at least one thing you must do tomorrow. Hey, thats very good. It must be so easy to drift through each day and at the end of it you've done nothing that you meant to do. I will bear that in mind. Now then tomorrow I must go for my bus pass! he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Happy birthday Carlie, all the best. DaveH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Happy Birthday Carlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Many Happy Returns Carlie167. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Thanks to my fellow forumers for all your good wishes. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Thanks to my fellow forumers for all your good wishes. You should schedule a Birthday in every Season, make you very popular indeed By 2035 you could be a couple of hundred years old ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 You should schedule a Birthday in every Season, make you very popular indeed By 2035 you could be a couple of hundred years old ! Instead of just feeling it he he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Instead of just feeling it Hey Carlie its nearly 9 o'clock at night on your birthday, you have retired from work so don't need to be early in the morning. So why aren't you out celebrating and making the most of it ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Hey Carlie its nearly 9 o'clock at night on your birthday, you have retired from work so don't need to be early in the morning. So why aren't you out celebrating and making the most of it Had my combined birthday and retirement party on Friday, Oh boy, couldn't face a repeat! . So just having a nice evening chillin' and browsin' B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest carlie167 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Anyone want a drink? I'm just having one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 Anyone want a drink? I'm just having one. No thanks It's a bit late for me - ----- I started four hours ago .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madannie77 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 No thanks It's a bit late for me - ----- I started four hours ago .. I want one of those magically refilling beer glasses ( a real one rather than an animation, please) Hope you haven't been drinking at that speed - about 5 seconds per glass lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I want one of those magically refilling beer glasses ( a real one rather than an animation, please) Hope you haven't been drinking at that speed - about 5 seconds per glass A pint every 5 seconds for 4 hours, whats that, 2880 pints, or if you prefer 360 gallons :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 A pint every 5 seconds for 4 hours, whats that, 2880 pints, or if you prefer 360 gallons looks a bit like Guiness to me, I know what a lot Guiness does to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 looks a bit like Guiness to me, I know what a lot Guiness does to me If it's Guiness then 360 Gallons is a fair bit of water out of the River Liffey Would keep us going for a while if we won that amount in a boozer quiz ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 If it's Guiness then 360 Gallons is a fair bit of water out of the River Liffey Would keep us going for a while if we won that amount in a boozer quiz 360 gallons, - that's 10 standard barrels and by a barrel I mean the measure not the object. Many so called "barrels" are actually "Firkins" or "Kilderkins" which hold less than the "barrel" even though they look the same (but smaller) Now a "hogshead", - that hold more than a barrel ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Try this for mathematical size Dave. In 1400, a gallon of ale was not the same as a gallon of wine. A standard hogshead contained 63 wine-gallons or 52.5 ale-gallons. Except there was no standard hogshead. There was a standard for wine, another for ale, and another for beer (which was imported). If you were buying beer in London, a hogshead was 54 ale-gallons, but only 48 ale-gallons if it was ale. Got that? Right, whose round is it? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Try this for mathematical size Dave. In 1400, a gallon of ale was not the same as a gallon of wine. A standard hogshead contained 63 wine-gallons or 52.5 ale-gallons. Except there was no standard hogshead. There was a standard for wine, another for ale, and another for beer (which was imported). If you were buying beer in London, a hogshead was 54 ale-gallons, but only 48 ale-gallons if it was ale. Got that? Right, whose round is it? Thing is Bayleaf, We start trying to work out how much is in a hogshead by counting the pints off as we drink them and eventually we sort of start to forget things and lose count Eventually we even start to forget what we had started doing in the first place Me and Stuart have tried it several times with the same result Strange really as we are really quite good at maths and counting drinks as you drink them shouldn't really be that difficult ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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