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To all my friends on here have a great day and a Merry Christmas. No presents here today, as we have postponed Christmas until we feel better. I was planning to have the family round on the 30th so have switched all the present giving til then. So it will be a quiet day here. Take care and stay safe and well. Pam

As hubby and I are not well we have posponed Christmas. I hope everyone on here has a lovely time and has a Happy Christmas.

My mother has allergies too, we informed P&O before we sailed and the maitre'd would bring that next day's menu to our table for my mother so she could discuss the option and the possibility of the dishes adapted to suit.

We were on Iona in January and I didn't use the app for booking dining times at all. We just walked down to the restuarant when we wanted to dine on the first night and then booked the same table for the same time each night at the desk. After the first few nights the staff automatically booked for us unless we said different. We didn't use any of the speciality restuarants although we did notice that the Olive Grove seems to be full nearly all the time. I would not say that we experienced any chaos anywhere.

And who would be the first to complain is somethig hot got spilt on the child as she was running around?

Morning all, just! Eldest daughter's birthday today, she's spending it with her daughter. Hubby managed to get antibiotics without any problem for his chest infection and is on the road to recovery, but I now feel like death warmed up. Another daughter is going to cook Christmas dinner and deliver it for us, so I don't have to cook.

Just returned from the doctor's surgery with OH and he has severe chest infection and been prescribed antibiotics. My daughter was going out to Boots so said she will collect them, so fingers crossed🤞 they have them in stock. We, along with my daughter and SIL (he's got covid) were supposed to be going over to Mum's for Christmas and Boxing Day, but after talking with her yesterday we decided to cancel both. On Boxing Day the rest of the family come over and spend the day, and it has been decided by two of my other daughters that Boxing Day is still going ahead for those that are well will still go over. Having just spoken to Mum she is now worried she won't have enough food for everyone!!

Sorry to hear about your loss, but although it is painful to loose someone you love memories will live on. Wishing you all the best.

Glad to hear your daughter managed to get some antibiotics for your grandson. Hope they work quickly and he feels a lot better soon. I remember Kunzle cakes, I liked them but don't remember the five boys chocolate.

I meant to say feeling well🥴 Put it down to lack of sleep.!!🤣

Sorry to hear your grandson is poorly, hope he is better soon. I had a busy day yesterday, went up to Truro with two of my daughters and granddaughter and received a text asking if I could get some shopping for one of my other daughters as her husband had covid. Got back from Truro just after lunch time, so headed straight off to Tesco's before going home. Dropped her shopping off and on the way back realised we had forgotten some of the shopping so turned around and went back! Hubby is also not feeling well. He's got a cold and a terrible cough, trying to get through to the surgery to get him an appointment - wish me luck! Hope everyone else is feeling.

We sailed with Fred on Black Watch and would not sail with him again!!!

We were supposed to sail on her on the 6th January but unfortunately had to cancel, but we are sailing on her in May instead - looking forwards to it.

Hope you feel better soon!

My son rang first thing this morning saying not to go out as he had just slipped over as the ground is just a sheet of ice. About half hour later we received another phone call with the same warning from one of the members of the food bank advising OH not to go over to help as it is dangerous underfoot. Stay safe all.

Congratulations to you all.

Have a lovely time.

Cold and a heavy frost here this morning with a temp of 0c with a feel of -2. No heating on this morning as plumber rang yesterday afternoon to arrange to come and service the boiler first thing. My granddaughter is coming here after school at lunchtime to help with the packing of the Christmas boxes for the local food bank. I've got a day of baking planned as we're having a family get together after Christmas and I want to get ahead with some of the food, at least that will keep me warm. Have a good day everyone and stay warm.

We were on Iona in January and didn't use the app for bookings. We went to the same MDR each evening and just asked as the desk to book the same table at the same time again for tomorrow. For shows in the theatre I just contacted reception, but there seemed to be plenty of room for those that hadn't booked for shows. For shows that are held in the dome there is no need to book but I would advise getting there early.

I have sailed on Azura on several occasions, the latest May this year, and there was plenty of cleaning of public areas in evidence as well as the use of sanitisers. I do agree that she was looking a little tired in places, but I think some of that has been due to the use of bleach/disinfectant that had been used to spray the corridors. With regard to the reported smells of sewage, I have never encountered it on any of my cruises. We found that on our last trip the food was not up to the standard that it was pre-covid, but we still enjoyed our meals.

Have just been over to visit Mum, it's her 90th birthday today. From there I went up to Tesco as they have beef and lamb at half price and wine is also on offer ( 6 bottles or more with 25% off). It was chaos. I had to go as my discount has been increased by Tesco to 20% for a few days as it's Christmas, so it would be silly not to stock up - wouldn't it?!!😆

No phone for me, I use my laptop. I had a problem the other day - the same post came up twice, although I tried to delete one! A dull, damp, drizzly day down here. Still not nice but not freezing as we have reached the heights of 7c, although it won't last long as tomorrow's forecast is of a high of 2 and snow

Glad to hear everything went well. Take it easy and hope it's not too uncomfortable.