SKI-er or Sk-ater. We know how to enjoy ourselves

Merrywidow

Have fun SDW - had lunch with Mr and Mrs Donny-gal today. Lovely day and lovely meal. They are off to Normandy tomorrow.

DiggerUK

I've read all the posts, seems like a tea shop script from "Last of the Summer Wine"

Thanks for the replies. I questioned Mrs.D if I was male or female, and was asked if she could phone a friend !

We're 50+, mortgage and debt free, both working to final salary pensions in retirement, with a goodly ammount in retirement savings.
2 daughters, 2 sons, 4 grandsons and 3 granddaughters.

Up till 18 years of age they were expensive, it looks like the second 18 years might bankrupt us.

We have our dreams about what to do when we retire, in fact we've been getting in some practice over the last couple of years.
Ski holidays are something we have always treated ourselves with for years. We save a great deal by booking a chalet as a family, and putting people in cupboards and drawers to sleep. Complete chaos, but a great time.

We now have a list of places to work through, the inheritance will pay for it. The intention is to die broke and leave them the house (+ any bills we overlooked)

Our favourite trick at the moment is to grab time away together in UK, just get in the car with a bag in the boot, and plastic in our pocket. We like scenic areas and walks.

How are we shaping up.

Francophile

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

You're not suggesting anything, are you Francophile?

Like it's only ladies who like to spend money, and talk about it at length? :rotfl:

I would never suggest such a thing!!!

seven-day-weekend

Welcome Digger, come and join the fun!

Well. We are in the house in Pembrokeshire. I'm not kidding, it's like something out of Grand Designs. By far the best place we have ever stayed in. The couple are nice too. (they have now left to go to stay with friends in Cardiff overnight and will start off for our house tomorrow a.m. I hope they don't mind our plastic wardrobes). The garden here is huge, it is like a park. I think we can just about manage to stay here for three weeks.

Weather is glorious too!

Savvy_Sue

Digger, you're shaping up fine ...

Merrywidow

Welcome Digger -Glad to see you have your priorities straight! You will do just fine.

donny-gal

Hi Digger you seem to be of a similar mind to ourselves.

Don't forget to take your lump sum from your final salary pension scheme, if you die young your families get it and not the pension scheme, and if you live long you don't spend as much as you get older, and if you have spent it the old folks home can't have it.

My DH is 60 this year, though I am a baby by two years, we finished work two years ago, they closed the place and made us redundant, we didn't need much prompting to call it quits. No regrets at all.

Just in France now for a month with our caravan, off outside now with coffee to sit in the sun.
DG

DiggerUK

We are both carrying on working to boost our savings. If it looks like the old heave-ho comes for one, then we are both going to go early retirement together.

We are hoping to be able to get our final home somewhere on the border of Eng/Cymru. Lovely part of the world.
Buying what we want won't be a problem, selling what we have will be the slow part. Haven't told any of the kids that our plan is to sell here first, store everything, and squat with them until we buy. Payback time is a !!!!!.

We have family and friends in Normandy, Dordogne, Marseilles, Portugal, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
So some travel will be done on a, you put me up, and I'll put you up basis. Just have to hope that BA don't go bust before we use our air-miles.

My favourite line with the managers at work is "What you gonna do about it, sack me?"
Am I shaping up OK, or have I got in with a bad crowd.

seven-day-weekend

DiggerUK wrote: »

Am I shaping up OK, or have I got in with a bad crowd.

Yes and yes.

pollypenny

Hi, everyone, including Digger! Just back from Crete. Lovely, ,but we usually do something more active, so we did get a bit bored. 10 days in one place is too long for us.

Glad you are enjoying Pembroke, SDW! Both our kids are souvenirs from Tenby!