Work till you are 80? - - why not? & Time to throw a few clothes away!

The Express front page story is littered with a litany of reasons why  people will have to work until they are 80, healthier lifestyle, living longer generally, & cashing pension pots are just some of the reasons. - - -  Work till I'm 80? nothing wrong with that, i think for too long we have been "conditioned" to retiring at 65.  The writing has been on the wall longer than i care to remember that this is just not so unless you plan and provide! - - - 

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the headline on this BBC story is Leaving EU would cut migration by 100,000 says migration watch I would hope so!!! bit of a no brainer really 

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A very blurred pic i know but check out this short video from the Pacific coast of Chile, giant waves crashing on shore scattering watchers and turning over the car in the pic - - - 

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this is the storm rain radar pic from yesterday lunchtime when Storm Jonas did a split and the worst of the rain missed us completely

this is the http://www.xcweather.co.uk/ wind projection right now and it has to be said we might have been spared yesterday but last night wind gusts had to be at 50mph a couple of times judging by the noise.  Its all a bit calm now but more rain and wind are on their way today 

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the current rain chart has large areas getting it right now and there's more sweeping in from the West during the day 

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with the storm threatening it was a perfect day to erect my new wardrobe which meant almost emptying the bedroom to do so.  I never knew you could get so much dust underneath a divan bed!  Anyway in typical IKEA fashion i followed the 10 page instruction and eventually there it stood in all its glory.  

Now it has to be said I am no "snappy dresser" in truth i hate throwing clothes away until they are metaphorically "falling off my back".  But after emptying out the previous drawers that i kept things in it was "time for the bin bags" 

Long loved T shirts and tops went willy nilly in the bag along with a few pairs of trousers.  In the End i finished up with a modest 2 bin bags for the old clothes dump down at the shop, I could have been more brutal but I feared an anxiety attack!   

I did however find that i have 2 pairs of jeans when i thought i only had 1.  I found 6 pairs of walking/hiking type trousers when in truth i normally wear my wolfskin trousers most outings. I even went up into the attic and had a chuck out from there and with my new found space in the wardrobe some items were transferred to it from there.

Buoyed with this success i contemplated my sock drawer which had not yet been scourged but decide it might be too stressful and called a truce with my clothes for the day.
Donning a pair of jeans and a checked shirt i have not seen for years let alone worn i did a song and dance routine of "I'm a lumberjack" for Sally before dumping my clothes at the shop.  I  ventured in and didn't feel an ounce of guilt buying a bottle of wine on one of our dry days! 

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 almost 12c even now although that is the top temp for the day the wind is a modest figure right now too

Nothing on the weathercam just yet but it is raining quite hard now.  Forecasters indicate the Temp will go from 12 to 6 by 18:00 as well as the wind dropping to a max of 25mph around the same time 

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UPDATE 08:00

blustery and rainy just about describes the weathercam pic now, i can see it being like this most of the day, i might still stride the hills later across to the pub! 

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