[Mike Osbourne]

Roger

Are you all right now I know you were saying you had a major health scare. Didn't you need and Op.

Mike

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Yes thank you Mike.

During the summer I had a very large (6cm x 3cm x 1cm) tumour removed from inside my nose/cheekbone. (They peel your face off your skull to get to it )

All gone but I still have my party trick of taking a drink and being able to squirt it out of my nose!

What with that and the remains of another exotic tumour still in my back it's my intention to retire from cc-ing as soon as I can after my 50th birthday by hopefully selling my business to an interested party. Failing which I shall just run it down.

Cleaning carpets is, I would submit, generally speaking a young person's game and as such this is another reason why we should charge properly for our skills and service as I don't think there are many who would choose to be still cleaning at age 65.

Better to get to 50 and realise I have to work a little longer than assume I am going to retire at 65 and get  to 60 and find that I just can't carry on.

(And yes I know this is a general and sweeping statement, so don't anybody take it personally.)

[Mike Osbourne]

That's good news Roger. I think things like this put every day in perspective and appreciate things that pass most people by.

Show us your party trick at the CCDO 


Mike

[Dave_Lee]

Mike and Shaun,
Someone mention my name? I am nearer my 63rd than my62nd and I also have not got ideal pension provision so I am aiming to carry on at least until I am 70, health prevailing etc. I am not as fit as I usually am as I have been struggling with a bad groin strain since March and theres no sign of any improvement yet. Despite this I did manage to complete the Pennine Way in 9 days, as opposed to the usual 3 weeks, carrying a tent and all, in September, averaging 30 miles a day.
I remember when I was in my 30s thinking that I would not be able to carry on with carpet cleaning after the age of 45 and then after 50, then after 55. Now I dont think about it, I just keep going. Even after 70 if able I may still do some jobs, or work a couple of days a week, who knows?
Dave.

[Mike Osbourne]

Maybe the groin strain is the clue to your youthfulness.

[colin thomas]

it's all in the mind, my old dad is nearly 90 and only packed in his part time gardening job last year because we nagged him about his terrible driving and so he couldn't get to the jobs, up to then he was sawing branches and all the other jobs you do in the garden. i will want to keep going as long as possible to keep out of the way of the wife!!!

colin

[Mike Halliday]

if you want to live to  ripe old age don't be fat, how many fat people over 75 do you see? not many.

your body has a hard enough time as it is without carrying around pounds of blubber.

[Buster Ingram]

I'll bear that in mind Mike, maybe you should leave your wallet at home like a real Yorkshire man, I dare say that gets heavy at times

[Mike Osbourne]

 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Leave it at home for the wife to get her grubby mitts on? no thanks!

After her mammoth 'let's empty meadowhall' shopping expedition I will be working into my old age or even later until I get to Dave Ingram's age.

Shaun

[ollie]

Ollie

We share the same birthday-Christmas Eve.

The only trouble is I shall be 46!

Still, at least I am nearer to retirement and not having to slog around cleaning carpets.

Roll on 50!

I hope you wont be working on your birthday??  I know I wont! 

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Ollie

Not a chance!

Work finishes on Monday 22nd in time for the Doctor Carpet Christmas Bash

(The 23rd will be spent recovering.)

[Ian Gourlay]

Dave lee

was very ofended when i asked him why he had invested a fourtune in a NewTruckmount at his great age.


i felt vey humble and unfit after that encounter.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Dave knows his stuff and how far to push himself he's no idiot just a sensible old codger who has a plan and good luck to him.

Shaun

[clinton]

 

[craigp]

My old mans 56, and is really fit, some of us young un's including me would struggle to keep up with him working!! he still runs and goes to the gym, he was a black belt kick boxer instructor

He will cram more into a day than I will and im 31.

Makes you realise how important it is to look after yourself. Will make all the diff later on, I think he be carpet cleaning into his late sixies maybe seventies

[Dave_Lee]

Ian,
Me offended!? I dont think you would offend me. Actually I dont recall the exchange, perhaps it was just the way I responded. Us old gits can be a bit cranky at times at times.
Dave.

[craigp]

forgetful too

[Mike Osbourne]

 

[craigp]

How old are you Mike O? theres no answer on your profile..