Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

Karmacat

I've just been looking at the spending review .....I'm going to come under the "extension to 66" thing that they're doing .... bear in mind that until about 5 years ago, I was going to be able to get my pension in 2014.... now, it'll be 2020. Sigh .... oh well, I'll just have to get those income streams going so that £100 a week doesn't matter too much .........

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

I've just been looking at the spending review .....I'm going to come under the "extension to 66" thing that they're doing .... bear in mind that until about 5 years ago, I was going to be able to get my pension in 2014.... now, it'll be 2020. Sigh .... oh well, I'll just have to get those income streams going so that £100 a week doesn't matter too much .........

I remember about 10 years ago when they changed something and started the sliding scale thing to 65 and a friend of mine born in 1950 was just the right side by 1 day. Her birthday was 31st Jan, if it had been 1st Feb, she'd have had to work another year.

They probably haven't updated the site yet, but you used to be able to put in your date of birth and it told you when you could retire. Mine was in noveber 2024, so will keep checking.

Karmacat

Is that the government pension site, gill?

MrsMoo2U

loving the canadian elephants

I reach state retirement pension payout in November 2030:eek: I am always the wrong side of the sliding scale

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

Is that the government pension site, gill?

Yes http://www.direct.gov.uk
and follow the link for pensions and then somewhere in there is a calculator.

Or just google 'when can I retire?' I think its top of the list:rotfl:

Karmacat

Thanks for that - its as I thought under the old rules, September 2019 ... since they're doing the new additions incrementally, I'd guess I now have to wait till November or December of that year.

Cheery_Daff

I can beat you all - according to that calculator I'll reach state pension age in 2048 :rotfl: Which is such a ludicrously long time away I'm not even going to think about it I'm just going to behave as if I've retired as much as I can before then, and make darn sure I know how to live on not very much money!

taka

Karmacat wrote: »

Lol to eyesight, gill! Cheery, I think I drove past the construction site at one stage, but I'd have loved a tour. Wonderful!

That list was good, wasn't it, but its a bit local, except for the Panama Canal. Lets see:


Places.
1. New Zealand's mountains, a la Lord of the Rings.
2. Ayers Rock.
3. Table Mountain.
4. The dropoff point of any continental shelf.
5. The Grand Canyon.
6. The Florida Keys.
7. Yellowstone National Park.
8. The Bolivian Salt Flats, the ones with drawings on them.
9. A glacier. A *big* glacier.
10. The Canadian wilderness.

Things.
1. The International Space Station.
2. That skyscraper in Malaysia....
3. Petra, Jordan.
4. The Taj Mahal.
5. Hong Kong.
6. The Ring of Brodgar on Orkney.
7. Chichen Itza, Mexico.
8. Lhasa.
9. Kyoto
10. St Petersburg.

Okay, thats my holiday plans for the next ten years... if I'm going to quadruple my income, this is a good part of what the money will be buying me (apart from my pension, that is).

Oh I've been to a few of these! In fact I was camping under the stars (in a swag :rotfl:) just outside the Uluru / Kata Tjuta National park today 10 years ago! Uluru (Ayres Rock) is really spectacular close up - not at all what you expect. We did a walk round the base of it and you can really see all the amazing textures formed by the weather and lots of colour variations too. The Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) were spectacular too. They are sililarly coloured smaller sandstone hills nearby - I think there are 30 odd of them in a cluster with some lovely walks around them.

You can combine the NZ mountains with a NZ glacier! I did a heli hike onto Franz Joseph Glacier on the south island. It was fab! It was also surprisingly warm ~ 20 deg C - we wore shorts and fleeces. :eek: :rotfl:

I think I need to come up with a new list - I went to quite a few of mine in 2000 as part of the same looooooong trip as Australia. First on the list is definitely Machu Picchu via the Inca trail. That is my end goal of my current weight loss / fitness motivation. I want to fit and healthy enough to do this in 2012.

Karmacat

Taka, *thats* a good idea - and combining is definitely the way to go, I think, though I might have difficulty combining the International Space Station with anything in particular :rotfl:

Cheery - lol at 2048! Thats a science fiction year :eek: its so far away.

Thing is, tho, I was always supposed to retire in 2014 - and the investment vehicle for my house was set up on that basis - a lot of existing financial planning was upset when this change started happening. Of course, other things upset my financial plans too (like, my income dropping by a third ) that didn't help one bit.

2048 .... lets see, I'll be .... erm, very old, I'm not going to tell you :rotfl:

redsquirrel80

Morning (just!) - loving the travel plans.. and it is very much adding to my general feeling at the moment that I need a holiday!

Ooh I can retire in 2048 too :rotfl: :eek: