Scared about getting old? Worry not, vast riches could be coming your way...

[Amari]

Just received this letter from the Pensions Service.....

 

[Sutty]

Just received this letter from the Pensions Service.....

Woo Hoo, a massive £13 a year extra - go out and celebrate (cheaply).
Wonder what the admin costs of making the changes are across the country

 

[gmonag]

You don't deserve it - I bet you'll waste it all on fast cars, fast women, and drugs.

 

[madasafish]

It's a piffling sum.

I have written to you asking you to donate it to a worthy cause - eg me.

There are approx 12 million OAPs in the UK and they all get an extra £13 a week and I will have written to all of them by next week.

If half of them agree that's around £78Million a week for me or around £4billion a year.
That will do nicely.
Anyone want a loan at 10% interest - a month? For that, you will get a free tour of my new 250 meter long yacht with free drinks.

 

[Newbeeneil]

It's a piffling sum.

I have written to you asking you to donate it to a worthy cause - eg me.

There are approx 12 million OAPs in the UK and they all get an extra £13 a week and I will have written to all of them by next week.

If half of them agree that's around £78Million a week for me or around £4billion a year.
That will do nicely.
Anyone want a loan at 10% interest - a month? For that, you will get a free tour of my new 250 meter long yacht with free drinks.

Unfortunately for you there are not 12 million OAP's OVER 80 in the U.K., just a mere 3.2 million so you may have to reduce the length of your yacht significantly .

 

[Curly green finger's]

Scary to think what the pention system will be like when I retire, Only 24 years if its 65 years old.
I expect it will end up being 70 or 75?

 

[Newbeeneil]

I think at present you are forecast to retire at 68 at the moment Mark.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-timetable/state-pension-age-timetable

 

[madasafish]

I think at present you are forecast to retire at 68 at the moment Mark.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-timetable/state-pension-age-timetable

Mark has to keep working to help pay for my (downsized but still palatial) yacht.

 

[BeeJam]

Just received this letter from the Pensions Service.....

Don't spend it all at once!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Mark has to keep working to help pay for my (downsized but still palatial) yacht.

Na!! I'll retire at 55 from making money from bees.....

Edit: or be crippled from beekeepers back.

 

[Amari]

You don't deserve it - I bet you'll waste it all on fast cars, fast women, and drugs.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. ... Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed .......
Matthew 26:41

 

[Arfermo]

Just like the one I got. Better than a raspberry I suppose but don't need it and too small to give away and cash gifts don't work well these days either..

 

[Amari]

Just like the one I got. Better than a raspberry I suppose but don't need it and too small to give away and cash gifts don't work well these days either..

Except to grandchildren....

 

[madasafish]

Na!! I'll retire at 55 from making money from bees.....

Edit: or be crippled from beekeepers back.

I recommend spinal twists - yoga.
(And up dog, down dog, forward bends, backwards bends)

 

[Curly green finger's]

I recommend spinal twists - yoga.
(And up dog, down dog, forward bends, backwards bends)

Or get your better half to walk over your back that would sort it.

On Friday I hived up 6 colonys and marked 8 queen's, a single brood box on a pallet is a bit low so I got on my knees to search and mark them, I think I need a crash course on my stance I take .

Im going to put higher stands at some of the apiarys to help any tips welcome.
maybe

 

[Newbeeneil]

Im going to put higher stands at some of the apiarys to help any tips welcome.
maybe

Getting the height right for you is imperative.
All my hives are on stands at just the right height for my back during inspection but 3 of my clients have WBCs which are just too low for me and after 30mins looking for a queen my back starts complaining!

 

[Arfermo]

Except to grandchildren....

They will each get a chunk when I fall off my perch providing SWMBO who has alzheimers hasn't outlived me and splodged the lot on excessively high living that we never bothered to enjoy!!!

 

[madasafish]

Or get your better half to walk over your back that would sort it.

On Friday I hived up 6 colonys and marked 8 queen's, a single brood box on a pallet is a bit low so I got on my knees to search and mark them, I think I need a crash course on my stance I take .

Im going to put higher stands at some of the apiarys to help any tips welcome.
maybe

I use 30cms off the ground as a stand height.(After some trials at 20cms which was too low)
Only becomes a problem at 5 supers and over...

(I am using Lang jumbos which at 50cm deep are rather bigger than National broods at 22.5cms.... But at least I don't have to lift them often!)

 

[victor meldrew]

Don’t forget your state pension with graduated and Serps is taxed .
why pay it all then claw some back ?
could be Paye as is was first earned !