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[pete]

[Rambo]

Very Greek.

[Chillidoggy]

Very Dan.

[Bibs]

[exeterjeep]

They would let him in if he had Just Stop Max,

[TonyKL]

I know him, he's a gardener with dyslexia - should have read "Just Top Soil"

 

[ChrisJ]

 

[Escape]

One  can never be to careful!

[exeterjeep]

[mayevora]

[pete]

[Escape]

On the subject of eating healthy and advertising, I'm always reminded of Lemmy and Ozzy. No one can argue their live styles were anything but unhealthy, and yet they made it to 70 (and counting in Ozzy's case) doing what they loved. Unlike those modern day rapstars that die from an overdose in their 20s. 🤘

[Rambo]

You can also add David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend etc.... into that mix.

In fact, a lot of musicians of that era had a very unhealthy way of life and are still living, or died of a ripe old age.

Sex 'n drugs 'n rock 'n roll 👍

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Err, Ian Dury was diagnosed with cancer and carped it 4 years later at 57.

[Chillidoggy]

There’s an awful lot of musicians who don’t make old bones, yet they never get reported on unless they’re in the most well-known bands.

Daltrey and Townshend might still be alive, but Keith Moon and John Entwhistle aren’t. 

[jep]

Random pictures and videos please 😊

[C8RKH]

[DaveC72]

[Rambo]

1 hour ago, jep said:

Random pictures and videos please 😊

Ok boss.

 

[Rambo]

 

[ChrisJ]

Doesn't seem like 11 years ago.

 

[Kimbers]

This is how I am feeling right now. Is it worth it? Working working working to accumulate wealth yet when you retire you are too old to do what you want to do!

[C8RKH]

Ask yourself @Kimbers how much do you really need to live out a happy retirement.  Then do the maths, and get there.

You don't probably need as much as you think you do. So do the maths (be realistic) and then do one  

[PaulCP]

That’s why I retired at 59 @Kimbers, albeit after a lucrative 4 years in Saudi but that’s why I quit my job here in 2009.

When I declared my intentions to return to the U.K. in 2013 to the Saudis I was offered an eye watering amount of cash to stay for another 3 years. It was a tough decision to turn the offer down but I have never regretted it one bit, particularly with how my health panned out with the cancer diagnosis 3 years later. Me & the wife did a lot of travelling in those first 3 years after retiring, travelling to places and doing things which we would never have been able to do so after the diagnosis.

As @C8RKH says, when you sit down and do the maths you realise that you don’t need as much as you think you do to enjoy a happy retirement.

[mdw]

Mid August last year we moved from Kent to west Norfolk. Edge of a big town 4 floor 5 bed Victorian house to small village (300 people) 3 bed 20 year old house.  Quite nervous as to how we would fit in but need not have worried.  Love every minute of it here. I go back to kent for 4 to 5 days a month to work and can't wait to come back to home. Whilst we rent out the house in Kent I would never go back to live (too busy).     I guess you have to do the maths and research, take a big jump both feet in and make it work.  50% less council tax and fuel. Less insurance costs.   

We had 9 months in a 47 SQM annexe at the old house with most of our stuff stored at my parents.   We needed very little of it.

You have voiced this before  maybe make the jump.