SarahHben

Boots often don't have what we need these days, it's a shame that Lloyds isn't in Sainsburys anymore.

My prescriptions currently get automatically sent to Hempstead Boots, but I'm getting so fed up with waiting in a queue for 40-50 minutes each time, that I think I'm going to re-route them to Fenn's at Parkwood precinct next month. When I went last week I had to wait 45 minutes and there had only been 3 people in front of me.

Morning. It’s still 28° in our lounge this morning. We live in a 3 storey house and the top floor has been unbearable, I ended up sleeping on the sofa last night. We have fans but are trying to use them sparingly due to the electricity bill. Our garden backs onto a school field and we thought we could smell burning yesterday late afternoon, got a bit concerned, but peered through the school fence and couldn’t see anything untoward. Let’s hope today is a fair bit cooler.

I see Iona is in Alesund this morning not Hellesylt.

Thank you, I cringe when I see it 😂 he posted a new video at the weekend and it shows my mum nearly launching me out of the lift as it opened 😏 As far as I know the vloggers we enjoy watching most, do pay for their own cruises. I recognised one vlogger on our cruise in May who I used to follow on YouTube and Instagram, he was filming in the buffet and I moved out of his way even though I was getting food and he didn’t even say thank you, needless to say I don’t watch his videos anymore.

I think I know which couple you mean 🥴 I watch lots of the cruise bloggers but my husband can only stomach a few select ones 😂 My husband puts some of our holiday videos on YouTube but they are really for us, our own enjoyment and it’s an easy way to share them with family & friends without forcing them to be bored looking at holiday photos. We did do a really cheesy cabin tour of Iona that he’s posted but I hate it 🥴

I missed whatever went on but Zap I hope you have a great cruise, I'm looking forward to reading about it

I have a C deck balcony booked on Ventura in August 2023. I gather from reading comments on here & watching YouTube videos that the C deck balconies are part overlooked and part sheltered and are bigger than the balconies on other decks. The cabins themselves look quite cosy but we figured that we would use the balcony more as we’re going to the Canaries so it made sense to us to get a bigger outside space.

We really liked Iona and would definitely sail on her again, but we are glad that our 2024 cruise to Norway is on Britannia purely because of the issues that Iona's had getting into some of the ports this summer.

She was facing upstream but was being towed downstream. Quite an impressive and unusual sight.

We’ve just seen a Japanese war ship & sailors sailing under Tower Bridge, photo isn’t good as it’s taken through a dirty window.

I’m currently on a Thames Clipper boat, going from the O2 Arena to central London for the day. My husband thinks it counts as a cruise 🙄 We’ve just gone past the Viking Mars cruise ship.

Have a lovely holiday!