P&O Cruisers - What are things like where YOU are?

[terrierjohn]

29 minutes ago, brian1 said:

Your list of sponsors is growing Graham.That toastie looks nice though.

Are you suggesting that Graham is our CC influencer? 😄

[Rupert2251]

29 minutes ago, bobstheboy said:

Hi Rupert

 

Have you tested yourself in the last couple of days ? Our table companions had similar symptoms immediately after Cadiz, tested on Sunday, negative, yesterday positive. Hope you are better soon.

Hi Bob

Yes just tested on your suggestion and still negative thank goodness, clearly just a beast of a cold.

[lindyloo22]

59 minutes ago, Rupert2251 said:

Good afternoon Bob. All 3 of us came down with something on the Friday after Cadiz, all tests were negative. Still got symptons, chesty cough, muzzy head feeling rotten. So the last 2 sea days we stayed on the balcony, not the best end to a cruise but we still enjoyed it.

That’s just how I felt after coming of Arvia in July, I kept testing all negative so I put it down to the air conditioning.

[grapau27]

11 minutes ago, terrierjohn said:

Are you suggesting that Graham is our CC influencer? 😄

It's nice having a beach 5 minutes from several drive thru outlets next to each other so close to home @terrierjohn so it is convenient plus having nice sea views to enjoy too.

 

[purplesea]

Now in Sicily, but it didn't go without mishaps🙄 

Left hotel at 6 am to get shutttle from Gatwick's north terminal, to go to south for our flight. Arrived at the shuttle and OH realised he'd left his phone in the hotel room, so back I go to reception to get another key, up to 7th floor room, (of course it's furthest from the lifts) to retreive it and back down. Good job I had allowed plenty of time before our flight.

Flight arrived on time to nice hot sunny weather😁 so hopefully can now relax, til our return journey!

[Megabear2]

Interesting day.  First session in 12 for Healthy Wiltshire.  Now officially banned from all sorts of exciting foodstuffs so I'll need to live vicariously through all your food pictures until mid December.  Have had to sign a "contract" to lose 5% of my body weight by then.  Went directly from the meeting to the swimming pool and swam 1,500 metres in the vague hope I might earn a bowl of ice cream tonight but my app (ICF is going to love this!) says no way.

 

So to cheer myself up I've just booked two new release Cunard cruises for 2025, one 12 night Norwegian on QM2 and one fly cruise QV.  I can see this healthy living is going to prove very expensive if only on cheer up treats.

[kalos]

2 hours ago, Megabear2 said:

Now officially banned from all sorts of exciting foodstuffs so I'll need to live vicariously through all your food pictures until mid December.

By the time I'd read your post I had ate my big chip butty ,so sorry no photo's, looks like

you will have to wait until tomorrow and Graham may give you another sea view of tasty food .What you need is encouragement from these boards .

When it comes to chips ,ice cream ,buns  , you have to learn to say NO !!

So just remember when you are given a scoop of ice cream and they ask is that enough ?

 

Remember you must say NO !!   🤣

 

Good luck hope all goes well for you Mega 🙂

[Fionboard]

Just had Poutine in Gaspe. Chips, cheese and gravy. Very healthy lunch! 

[Gettingwarmer]

3 hours ago, purplesea said:

Now in Sicily, but it didn't go without mishaps🙄 

Left hotel at 6 am to get shutttle from Gatwick's north terminal, to go to south for our flight. Arrived at the shuttle and OH realised he'd left his phone in the hotel room, so back I go to reception to get another key, up to 7th floor room, (of course it's furthest from the lifts) to retreive it and back down. Good job I had allowed plenty of time before our flight.

Flight arrived on time to nice hot sunny weather😁 so hopefully can now relax, til our return journey!

We arrived at Southampton and handed car over to CPS. My OH then realised no money. searched car and hand luggage, not there. Tried to phone hotel but could not get through. They caught taxi back to hotel and finally got through to reception. The lady went upstairs and found money in room so when OH arrived they rushed in to collect and then caught same taxi back. Meanwhile I’m tracking them on iPhone and they took ages getting back while I waited in Departures. Alls well that ends well. 
Glad you’re enjoying your holiday and our cruise continued ok. 

[zap99]

58 minutes ago, kalos said:

By the time I'd read your post I had ate my big chip butty ,so sorry no photo's, looks like

you will have to wait until tomorrow and Graham may give you another sea view of tasty food .What you need is encouragement from these boards .

When it comes to chips ,ice cream ,buns  , you have to learn to say NO !!

So just remember when you are given a scoop of ice cream and they ask is that enough ?

 

Remember you must say NO !!   🤣

 

Good luck hope all goes well for you Mega 🙂

In the hotel buffet they have a daily " flat round cake " like a flan. Todays was custard with Almonds. TBH it looked a bit dry. A squirt of chocolate sauce and a dollop of chocolate ice cream soon sorted that.🤣

[zap99]

50 minutes ago, Fionboard said:

Just had Poutine in Gaspe. Chips, cheese and gravy. Very healthy lunch! 

You could live on it, but it tastes like..........🤮

[Harry Peterson]

@Adawn47 Avril, I wondered if you'd listened to this as a Barnsley girl?  You know I've got some family connections with the area, and I found it fascinating.  Extremely well done too:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qlzc

 

The Ballad of Eldon Street - an unnatural history.

A new form of radio ballad to mark the centenary of Radio Drama on the BBC. The story of this iconic Barnsley street told by the people who know it best, interwoven with specially composed songs written by LYR - Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters.

 

with Malcolm Bird, Ann Bunting, Alison Dixon, Wayne Johnson, Tegwen Roberts, Peter Roberts and Steven Skelley.

 

Music performed by Simon Armitage, Patrick Pearson, Richard Walters, Matt Taylor, Beth Bellis and Mike Monahan.

[zap99]

7 minutes ago, Harry Peterson said:

@Adawn47 Avril, I wondered if you'd listened to this as a Barnsley girl?  You know I've got some family connections with the area, and I found it fascinating.  Extremely well done too:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qlzc

 

The Ballad of Eldon Street - an unnatural history.

A new form of radio ballad to mark the centenary of Radio Drama on the BBC. The story of this iconic Barnsley street told by the people who know it best, interwoven with specially composed songs written by LYR - Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters.

 

with Malcolm Bird, Ann Bunting, Alison Dixon, Wayne Johnson, Tegwen Roberts, Peter Roberts and Steven Skelley.

 

Music performed by Simon Armitage, Patrick Pearson, Richard Walters, Matt Taylor, Beth Bellis and Mike Monahan.

Many years ago in a pub across the river from craven cottage,a footy  fan from oop north had penned on the cloakroom wall " Barnsley bitters best ". Some local lad left him an invitation to pop off back to Barnsley and drink it. Regional literature was alive way back then.🤣

[Fionboard]

44 minutes ago, zap99 said:

You could live on it, but it tastes like..........🤮

I like to try the local food. Quite tasty, but probably won't try it again! 

[brian1]

13 hours ago, purplesea said:

Now in Sicily, but it didn't go without mishaps🙄 

Left hotel at 6 am to get shutttle from Gatwick's north terminal, to go to south for our flight. Arrived at the shuttle and OH realised he'd left his phone in the hotel room, so back I go to reception to get another key, up to 7th floor room, (of course it's furthest from the lifts) to retreive it and back down. Good job I had allowed plenty of time before our flight.

Flight arrived on time to nice hot sunny weather😁 so hopefully can now relax, til our return journey!

Same here,high 20s.more bearable than a few weeks ago.,enjoy.

[kalos]

A dull and damp Thursday here 13.c but 18.7c in our living room so no need for

the heating to kick in just yet .

Have a good day whatever your up to .🙂

[grapau27]

Good morning.

12°C and raining here.

I hope everyone has a great day.

[Adawn47]

12 hours ago, Harry Peterson said:

@Adawn47 Avril, I wondered if you'd listened to this as a Barnsley girl?  You know I've got some family connections with the area, and I found it fascinating.  Extremely well done too:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qlzc

 

The Ballad of Eldon Street - an unnatural history.

A new form of radio ballad to mark the centenary of Radio Drama on the BBC. The story of this iconic Barnsley street told by the people who know it best, interwoven with specially composed songs written by LYR - Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters.

 

with Malcolm Bird, Ann Bunting, Alison Dixon, Wayne Johnson, Tegwen Roberts, Peter Roberts and Steven Skelley.

 

Music performed by Simon Armitage, Patrick Pearson, Richard Walters, Matt Taylor, Beth Bellis and Mike Monahan.

Unfortunately Harry I didn't know about it. I clicked the link, but couldn't listen to it as not signed in etc,etc. Malcolm Bird is Frank's cousin, if it's the same one, so it would have been interesting. 

By the way Harry, I'm a Southern girl, born in Staines Middx. We moved to Barnsley when I was 9. I do feel like a Yorkshire lass now though, and proud of it.

Avril

[purplesea]

4 hours ago, brian1 said:

Same here,high 20s.more bearable than a few weeks ago.,enjoy.

Thanks, a nice pleasant 24c yesterday evening as we took a walk down to sea front. Expectrd 27c today in Terrisini.

[Harry Peterson]

11 minutes ago, Adawn47 said:

Unfortunately Harry I didn't know about it. I clicked the link, but couldn't listen to it as not signed in etc,etc. Malcolm Bird is Frank's cousin, if it's the same one, so it would have been interesting. 

By the way Harry, I'm a Southern girl, born in Staines Middx. We moved to Barnsley when I was 9. I do feel like a Yorkshire lass now though, and proud of it.

Avril

Sorry Avril, thought you were Yorkshire born and bred! If you remember Eldon Street as it used to be in its heyday, though, you’d enjoy the programme. Just needs a free BBC account to log into. It’s Radio 4, so no TV license needed. I did find some fascinating videos from Barnsley Museums online though, digging about a bit.

 

I gather it’s part of a regeneration programme now, but the programme’s a reminder of just what Barnsley used to be like when the miners were free spenders.

[bobstheboy]

Good morning. Cloudy, little rain, got to be positive, mini heatwave starts tomorrow.

 

Still got fingers crossed !

[brian1]

Took "babyboy" for his last run on the beach this morning.Rescue lady collected him later,a few tears were shed but he's going to Milan tomorrow for a new life.We start our journey home Saturday,1st stop Orvieto.Will think of him driving thru Milan Sunday to Como our 2nd stop.

[Megabear2]

Beautiful sunny day here, quite chilly at 5.30am but once the sun was up looking great with a high predicted of 19°.  Opened my app to see what delights breakfast was going to offer and surprised that 2 bacon rashers, two tomatoes and mushrooms on a slice of wholemeal toast was the offering and half the calories of my normal cereal, soft fruit and yoghurt!  At least my food envy won't be quite so bad 

 

Looking forward to all those pictures of food to cheer me up later.  I very nearly decided to leave the boards for a while after all the going on elsewhere but my desire for food porn has so far got the better of me and it's only days 2.

 

Have a great day wherever you are and whatever you're all doing.

 

 

 

 

[kalos]

15 minutes ago, brian1 said:

Took "babyboy" for his last run on the beach this morning.Rescue lady collected him later,a few tears were shed but he's going to Milan tomorrow for a new life.We start our journey home Saturday,1st stop Orvieto.Will think of him driving thru Milan Sunday to Como our 2nd stop.

 

I'm sure Babyboy will do well in his new life in Milan .Although his life had a mishap he had 

you and your wife. gave him the love and care he needed .Your photo of you laid out on 

the settee with him sleeping at your feet ,says it all really .  Love and comfort  ,he wanted 

and found in your two ..Well done guys 🙂

[Grandad John]

1 hour ago, Adawn47 said:

Unfortunately Harry I didn't know about it. I clicked the link, but couldn't listen to it as not signed in etc,etc. Malcolm Bird is Frank's cousin, if it's the same one, so it would have been interesting. 

By the way Harry, I'm a Southern girl, born in Staines Middx. We moved to Barnsley when I was 9. I do feel like a Yorkshire lass now though, and proud of it.

Avril

Avril

I’m sure many, many years ago there was a menswear shop in Barnsley, Frank Bird, any relation?