Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Demob happy. ISTR it did feel really weird when I didn’t have to get up and put my suit and tie on to get to the office bright and early. Soon got used to it.
31st Mar 2021 5:11 pm
Paddington
Member Since: 30 May 2013
Location: Southampton
Posts: 280
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9402
Very jealous
Best of luck Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
31st Mar 2021 6:54 pm
Fitzy73
Member Since: 09 Feb 2014
Location: Truro
Posts: 2407
Congratulations, have a fantastic retirement, relax and enjoy!Andy
31st Mar 2021 7:13 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13078
DSL wrote:
Demob happy. ISTR it did feel really weird when I didn’t have to get up and put my suit and tie on to get to the office bright and early. Soon got used to it.
Strangely, you in a suit sounds more weird than you not in one, of course I have only ever talked to you in a campsite... Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
31st Mar 2021 7:33 pm
PROFSR G
Member Since: 06 Mar 2017
Location: Lost
Posts: 4626
Depends on what you mean by "suit" yµ (idµ - eAµ) ψ=mψ
31st Mar 2021 7:34 pm
CY
Member Since: 16 Aug 2005
Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 4502
astonbuilder wrote:
dantheman wrote:
Very jealous!! Does that mean you won't get the new car?
Enjoy
no, that is the joy of retiring from JLR with necessary service and age; I get to keep both my company cars as per the management car scheme. I'm only keeping one of them (as SWMBO and myself like to keep a cabrio' in the stable so we have an Audi A3 cabrio' now for that use) so currently have what was SWMBO's Evoque on the drive as our 'main car' now with a Defender to replace that whenever it turns up
My RRS went back yesterday ( ) and picking up another Evoque next month to replace that but my brother will be taking that on and paying me the cost to cover it.
Don't need to touch my pensions till I'm 60 at least as it stands and currently have a 'little part-time job' lined up moving cars around the country but having a few months off first
Many congratulations, sounds like it's worked out well for you
I work in Gaydon and a number of my colleagues have been impacted by the recent displacements. It obviously affects everybody differently, depending on stage of life etc, but it's always comforting to hear about those for whom it comes as a real blessing and opportunity. Which part of the business were you in?
I think I've got another 25 years to work before they'd let me leave and stay in the management car scheme!! 2007 Porsche Boxster (987) 2.7
2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE G4 Challenge (1 of 68)
2023 Defender 90 D250 X-Dynamic HSE
1st Apr 2021 9:00 am
J77
Member Since: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Fife
Posts: 6261
Congratulations 🎉
I’ll join you in about 30 years 23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green
1st Apr 2021 10:38 am
riverblanche
Member Since: 31 Aug 2010
Location: retford'ish
Posts: 2210
Hi,
well done (to Both of you)
Did the same a few years back and once your through the 1st "UnPaid" year you start thinking
"I wished I'd looked at doing this even earlier" 8)
I went nearly 3 years before my Pension kicked in and all was good
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: MIDLANDS
Posts: 8051
for at least the last twenty years or so I have woken at 5.58am without an alarm for all but a handful of those days, even my 5.15am starts up to Halewood were mostly without an alarm required. Even at weekends I would wake up at the accustomed time and often didn't go back to sleep......
Today, 'Day 1' and............ I woke at 7.45am
Today's 'jobs' were to cut some arms off the bird feeders to stop big fat pigeons eating all the seeds, cut the back lawn, wash the car and wander down to Lidl to pick up a few bottles of a lovely Sicilian Nero D'avolo red my B-in-L introduced me to (well recommended if you're passing a Lidl anytime soon), but....... its drizzling here so those jobs can wait and it doesn't even matter
I do have a couple of things I want to do, the first is a requirement to do the second; build a folding workbench in my garage and then refurbish an old clocking in clock from my apprentice days (will post some pics on a new thread).
Am now going to take SWMBO a coffee in (she's still WFH in the study) and have a read of the paper. I could get used to this retirement malarkey
1st Apr 2021 11:01 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13078
The irony of retirement is that you need to keep busy. An uncle of mine retired early from the coal mines of Yorkshire back in the day. A group of his mates did likewise. They all just "stopped" and were dead in a few years, ironically some never even reached state pension age. My uncle kept himself very busy doing things and lasted in to his 80s.
Perhaps these days people are more likely to be busy retirees so it's less of a risk, but even so, worth bearing in mind.
Me? I'm likely to be working for at least another 10 years, so it's not a problem I currently face, unfortunately.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
1st Apr 2021 11:13 am
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15213
Hope everyone enjoys their work today.
Me? I’m just popping out on my mountain bike for a ride up some of the remote Galloway hills.
🏴
1st Apr 2021 11:25 am
riverblanche
Member Since: 31 Aug 2010
Location: retford'ish
Posts: 2210
astonbuilder wrote:
, cut the back lawn, wash the car
Just those two things make a big difference
" the weathers good just Now I'll ...."
rather than "got to cut the lawn this weekend just hope it stays fine )
Drizzly here as well, so second coffee and writing nonsense on the laptop
Might make some cheese scones for when swmbo gets back and ask me what I have been doing
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ISTR it did feel really weird when I didn’t have to get up and put my suit and tie on to get to the office bright and early. Soon got used to it. 
