Old Soldiers over 80

Hi folks,
Just received in post my state pension increase to take effect from 7th April. Had to chuckle, at the bottom of the notice was the line :Age addition of 25p per week will be payable from your 80th birthday. As I am 80 on April 21st, it got me thinking what I could buy for 25p. No sweeties, no newspaper except the 'I', no stamps etc etc.
I think I might open up as shop called the old five bob shop - everything sold here for 25 pence. Can any of you think what I might buy for 25p and keep it clean (do they sell 1 pint cartons of milk I wonder). He! He!
 Jimsigs

Thanks, Jimsigs - I didn't know about this - now you,ve got me all excited wondering what to do with it !! 25p to he with the best (clean) sugestion - less tax, of course!!.

Hey guy's you can save it up for two months and buy a lottery ticket £2:00 thats 6 a year or you could invest it in a retirement fund(hee hee)

At least you get a choice of what you can buy .. ex Pats who paid full pension contributions while working in the UK get no increases what so ever. Pensions are frozen at the rate in effect when immigrating. My wife when working paid additional 'stamp' money so that upon retirement she would get a bit extra on top of her Pension, but that was negated when she came to Canada. Recently her Hampshire County Council Pension was increased but the kicker was that 50% of it was to be added to her State Pension (remember it was frozen upon immigration) so she gets gypped again.

Len (Ciphers)

john boy wrote:

Hey guy's you can save it up for two months and buy a lottery ticket £2:00 thats 6 a year or you could invest it in a retirement fund(hee hee)

And should you win the Lottery you can holiday in the Czech Republic where beer is 25p a pint.   

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john boy wrote:

Should you win the Lottery you can holiday in the Czech Republic where beer is 25p a pint.   

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Rejoice you oldies ! If they still use the Imperial System in CZ it's worth emigrating to somewhere where measurements & volumes can be understood by anyone over 50........... True tale :- When metric came in REs were issued with an educated tract on the Medium Girder Bridge . The MGB comes in 6'.0" bits which are clipped together to span a gap. Tract said :-

"......For simplicity we are adopting the Metric System. To find the number of panels required for spanning a gap with MGB, instead of measuring the required span in Imperial & dividing by 6, in future the gap will be measured in Metric & divided by 1.829 "

cartav wrote:

Shelldrake wrote:

john boy wrote:

Should you win the Lottery you can holiday in the Czech Republic where beer is 25p a pint.   

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Rejoice you oldies !  If they still use the Imperial System in CZ it's worth emigrating to somewhere where measurements & volumes can be understood by anyone over 50........... True tale :-  When metric came in REs were issued with an educated tract on the Medium Girder Bridge . The MGB comes in 6'.0" bits which are clipped together to span a gap. Tract said :-

"......For simplicity we are adopting the Metric System. To find the number of panels required for spanning a gap with MGB, instead of measuring the required span in Imperial & dividing by 6, in future the gap will be measured in Metric & divided by 1.829 "

yes understood that    here is a simple way to spend 25p
   

john boy wrote:

cartav wrote:

Shelldrake wrote:

john boy wrote:

Should you win the Lottery you can holiday in the Czech Republic where beer is 25p a pint.   

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Rejoice you oldies !  If they still use the Imperial System in CZ it's worth emigrating to somewhere where measurements & volumes can be understood by anyone over 50........... True tale :-  When metric came in REs were issued with an educated tract on the Medium Girder Bridge . The MGB comes in 6'.0" bits which are clipped together to span a gap. Tract said :-

"......For simplicity we are adopting the Metric System. To find the number of panels required for spanning a gap with MGB, instead of measuring the required span in Imperial & dividing by 6, in future the gap will be measured in Metric & divided by 1.829 "

yes understood that    here is a simple way to spend 25p
   

What's this then, bleedin' "Countdown" ?

Just been reading a suggestion in the paper that I could save up the money in 3 weeks and buy two bread rolls and a banana. Unfortunately, it doesn't stretch to any butter. Could pinch a pat from a Service Station or pop into the sally bash and scrounge some soup first.

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I knew that!  

[quote="brum"][quote="john boy"][quote="cartav"]

Shelldrake wrote:

john boy wrote:

Should you win the Lottery you can holiday in the Czech Republic where beer is 25p a pint.   

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What's this then, bleedin' "Countdown" ?

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Relax Brum !!!!! John Boy is quoting from an ACC directive on how a ten man compo pack was to be divided up by each of six squaddies to ensure every man had an equal intake of calorific value over a 36 hour period......... Simple !

I solved your equation, John Boy - it wiped out the whole village!!! Anyway, the competition is now null and void -- my (scots) wife says she will have it!

And rejoice again you elders of Eng !   Prescription charges for the under-60s are going  up next month so that can be seen as a 20p a time cash saving for the under 16,  over 60s , those with child etc.   Er .........and Scots, N-Irish & Taffies of course.   For the rest, those who willingly fork out £8.05 for a packet of Aspirins, and don't get an extra 25p a week,  it would be cheaper and more satisfying to invest in crack cocaine or Ecstasy tablets.

I will spend any State Pension increase on some new socks, me old ones are getting a bit ragged and the local vicar always looks at folks socks to see how well heeled they are, but then worn down shoes, tatty old cardigan does make some good folks sympatico when I shuffle onto the local buses with my walking stick. If I ever let myself get to the stage of some of the Walmart/Asdas Folks in Americky do - 30-ish and weighing in at 37 stones, and using reinforced electric golf carts when they do the rounds of the the supermarkets..... then its time to smarten up and take a leaf out my old basic training day, and stop eating so many pies...!! lol   

Wonder how many of these contributors are still available for a Muster Parade?

(Admin don't delete any - we would lose a sizeable volume of contributions - and sand bags!)

Feb 2024

Hi Jim...You should be about 90 by my reckoning...Happy Birthday anyway...Joe

90 last August!!