Eddie99

For anyone who missed the show on Friday night

🤞 for Freddie and the prescription diet The wind (breeze) has changed direction, so a little solar therapy is on the cards. Bet it changes again just as soon as I’ve put on some factor 30 and adjusted my chair

Poor Freddie Have you tried a daily spoonful of Yakult? Help build up his natural “friendly” gut bacteria. Don’t think it could hurt, unless he is lactose intolerant. There are soya or oat yoghurt or kefir alternatives if he is. Pumpkin is reputed to be really good for gut issues, whichever end of the hard/soft spectrum is the problem Anyway - hope he gets better very soon and both of you can cope with the exclusion diet The weather is less “scorchio” today, with high cloud and a little niggly sea breeze that’s coming from somewhere cooler than here. We’ve done our daily big walk and called in at a shoreside cafe for a lovely wholesome brunch (Sausage bap/fried eggs bap are wholesome, aren’t they?) My sleep tracker records me as falling asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow at 9.15, and being in deep sleep for 1hr 18 minutes then, and sleeping for over 8 hours in total. That’s a treat. I don’t know if I’d be able to cope with walking 6 miles in 22°C every day though! You can see from the above timings that I didn’t watch Eurovision. I’ve never really liked it, not even in the Cliff/Sandie Shaw era. There was a time I liked to dip in to hear Terry Wogan, but not the acts It’s half gone now, but enjoy the rest of the day everyone.

Lovely day The history of water meadows is fascinating. I recommend Google searches to learn more. I certainly didn’t know very much, even though I thought I did 🙄 Good supper too. Liver & bacon with mash, peas & onion gravy. Not everyone’s cup of tea but it certainly hit the spot for me. Now the decision - stay up & look for the lights, or not? Someone on the walk suggested setting an alarm for 1am. Mmm 🤔

Morning all. The sun has got his hat on, and I Wordled in 2. Very good start to the day! We didn’t stay up to look for the northern lights - I’ve read Day of the Triffids 🌱 - but I’ve enjoyed looking at the hundreds of pictures this morning It’s Walking Week here, with lots of various events. We’re going on a guided walk of the water meadows this afternoon, followed by pub supper Have a lovely day everyone, especially those who’ve been poorly, or have poorly rellies

Avian solidarity! 🦅 💪

I’ve seen that boarding Princess in San Francisco Many passengers called to *The Table of Shame* in the embarkation hall 🙄

I’ve just read a piece on cryptosporidium infection in the uk. Apparently numbers are going through the roof at the moment I’d be guilty of breaking the “No politics” rule if I proferred my explanation of the reason . It doesn’t take a genius So - extra, extra, hand washing and vigilance (I wonder if this is behind the ships’ outbreaks?) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cryptosporidium-public-advice

Looks like another lovely day coming up @P&O SUE, so sorry you’ve been poorly. I hope you wake up feeling a bit better today, and manage to shake it off completely very soon. Look after yourself We’ve finally found some “free” time, so once himself has finished at the museum this morning, and once the car is back from its expensive visit to the garage, we’ll head off to the caravan, for that lovely sun & sea mixture

Sarah - I hope your Mum starts to improve very quickly and that she has a smooth road to recovery from this point x

Good morning The sun has arrived, at last! Lovely walk on the beach & fish lunch yesterday Group walk with the Wednesday group today Everything feels so much better with a bit of sunshine! On the minus side, the car is playing up (battery/electrics) so himself will have to miss the walk and get that sorted. Boo

Rather like us Seaview cabin on deck 4. The only times we ventured above 8 were to go to Beach House and Epicurean. It was January though. Maybe we would have explored the pool decks in hotter weather We though 6, 7, and 8 had lots to offer

Thank you for the review - I enjoyed reading it and I’m glad your group had a great time @AndyMichelle - we were apprehensive about Iona but loved our time on her. So many facilities! Somehow she does a Tardis and is huge, yet accessible at the same time. Embarkation, disembarkation, and getting off & back again in ports was smooth. My only gripe concerning her size and payload is that she can easily “fill up” some of the smaller ports

Lovely! Glad you’re posting Have a lovely cruise on the lovely Ventura. Hopefully you’ve chilled out from the journey to Southampton and are enjoying good weather

It’s a dull day here, with added spells of mizzle. Such a shame after a rare sunny day yesterday. It was nice for the balloon festival, but a shame (afaiac) that they had to conclude with a window-shaking firework extravaganza at 10.15 last night. I expect I’m just a miserable old fart 🙄 My best bit of today was coming across a little field vole on our walk today. He was very bold (or perhaps unconcerned?). Crossed the path in front of me and then sat chomping on a seed case from a tree, as OH, I and the dog walked past Not my pic, but this is what he looked like

Thank you Jane - you look lovely. Your brows are gorgeous. i have sparse eyebrows but somehow can’t stand myself with pencilled-in etc. it just doesn’t look right to me. I feel I have a look of permanent surprise Yes, Pauline is lovely. I recognised her on Iona - was more confident that it was her than that the gentleman of the couple was Graham

There is a number in a pinned post at the top of this sub-forum However, it was unobtainable when I tried it recently

It’s also World Naked Gardening Day 😳 Eek!

Morning all For the first time this year (I think) I’ve done the early dog walk without a coat. Light hoodie yes, but no actual coat. That must indicate progress. Hurrah! We seem to have missed out on recent decent weather/nice temperatures, so I really hope this is the start of some decent weather Sarah - hope your Mum had a decent night and makes good progress today Graham - your meal looks lovely. We didn’t go out but we did splash out on some lovely brill from the fishmonger. Plus the first of the Jersey royals. Even if I say it myself - doesn’t that look good? It certainly tasted good Have a lovely Star Wars Day everyone. May the Fourth be with you.

Agree about the Chef’s Table The only advantage is that you get the guaranteed time

Morning all Best wishes for all with hospital appointments today We’ve been to vote, so I thought I’d do a *Dogs at Polling Stations* picture. Excuse the state of her - the polling station is the cricket club so she had a good run around the (wet) cricket field before we went in.

Morning all Happy May Day - it’s dull and drizzly, with thunderstorms forecast for this evening 🙄

Has anyone mentioned propulsion system, stability, storm-worthiness, etc? They’re probably important Outside my area of expertise though. Anyone? 🚢