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Paul Wills
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | 1
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Thanks to the miracle that is Ozempic, I am below 200 pounds for the first time since my 20s.-------------------------- Definitely a positive with having diabetes! The advancement of medicine is pretty amazing. If it wasn't for Imitrex, I would be in bed mostly with migraines
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Phil Frances
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Joined: 08 August 2009
Location: United Kingdom
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | 2
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'Not on your foot, I hope'
Haha - no ! A stone in weight ... thankfully, the bathroom scales started to recognise me as a single unit instead of a coach trip.
And - lazy is good - one of my best afternoons is doing nothing and then having a good ol' rest afterwards.
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Phil Frances
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| Posted: 17 December 2025 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | 3
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Phil, I am also 59 -- turn 60 mid-2026 -- I hope retirement is not too far away... Your pottering sounds great! Congrats
It is certainly to be recommended, Jonathan - pity that it comes that bit later in life ! And - as a number of my former colleagues also agree - I'm not quite sure how I ever found time to fit in a job ! Now I can fill my days with cooking, painting, twiddling a bit on the guitar, nodding off at random moments, wondering what day it is or if I can remember my own name ...
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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 18 December 2025 at 11:49am | IP Logged | 4
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Enjoy, Phil!
At the moment, I'm working from 6.30am until 5pm without nary a break (electronics is a crazy business!). I still check on work stuff in the evening and at weekends too, which has hindered my side hustle as a writer.
The endgame is four years away, when I can retire comfortably at 60. I have a huge bookcase of omnibuses (omnibi?) waiting for me and a plan to get a four-legged friend then too (there's too much of a dog-shaped hole in my life at the mo!).
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Casey Sager
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Congrats on your retirement!
I was recently let go from my job of nearly 25 years and decided to just retire. I definitely feel blessed to be in a position to do so comfortably.
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John Byrne
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How did my fans get so old while I haven’t aged a day since I left X-Men?
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Michael Hogan
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JB: How did my fans get so old while I haven’t aged a day
since I left X-Men?
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Time travel. Gotta be time travel.
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Gundars Berzins
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| Posted: 18 December 2025 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | 8
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JB: How did my fans get so old while I haven’t aged a day
since I left X-Men?
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Could be it's your mutant power?
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Robin Taylor
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I am ten years away from retirement but I think about it every day lol
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 19 December 2025 at 6:51am | IP Logged | 10
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I’m (hopefully) eight years from retirement, and I do think about it a lot -
primarily from the point of view of ‘will the company get me there?’.
We are a pretty small company that does project work on sustainability.
If Reform get in to our local councils next year and central government in
2029, we could be in big trouble. If we can make it to 2029 we will have at
least paid off our mortgage which reduces our monthly costs significantly
and means I might be able to play around with a lower paid job enhanced
by taking my pension earlier at a reduced rate.
The ideal though, is eight years and a pension that allows retirement.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 19 December 2025 at 8:07am | IP Logged | 11
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After being made redundant exactly 10 yeays ago (Yes at
Christmas!) i got a job far removed from the steel industry
working backstage in retail. I work part time and as i
approach retirement age i may drop further hours. But at
the moment i plan to continue as i am because it keeps me
fit and i like the cameraderie.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 19 December 2025 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | 12
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It is incredible how many people lose their jobs around Christmas.
When I worked at Severn Trent, the restructures were always announced at
Christmas, because that way, the redundancy payments were done and
dusted before the end of the financial year in March.
I get it, but way to ruin people’s happy time that they were looking forward
to
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