23-03-2014, 08:45 PM
(23-03-2014, 11:11 AM)pwdrive Wrote: I said pension "etc" David, that would include doctor/NHS, bus passes, winter fuel allowance and any other stuff I might have missed...
Lawrence.
Senior Rail Card - 30% off tickets, concessionary theatre and cinema tickets, cheaper specs, cheaper haircuts...the list goes on.
Then there's my 'free' TV licence to look forward to from June Lawrence - assuming the 'grim reaper' doesn't catch up with me before then
But there is a downside to all these so-called 'pensioner perks' - they do serve to remind us of the passage of time, and I'm already past the qualifying age as a 'coffin dodger'.
As Omar Khyyam spookily put it some 900 years ago:
'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays,
Hither and thither, moves and mates, and slays...
Then one by one back in the closet lays'
He was clever - it did for him as it will for us.
I've fair put the wind up myself now - I'll be hiding under the blanket tonight!
Regards, David.
BVWS Member.
G-QRP Club Member 1339.
'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
BVWS Member.
G-QRP Club Member 1339.
'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'







