exlondoner

He can’t be that major a star or that highly respected in the UK, as I’ve never heard of him.

I think the garb is irrelevant. 🙂

This may be well into the realm of too much information, but I find myself more and more sensitive as time passes.

It looks rather woolly to me, and just an inconvenient height and stiff enough to dig into the neck, if one moves it a little. I think what I would call a polo but may well technically be something else entirely (iguana, axolotl?) would be more forgiving. 🙂

Looks horribly itchy.

For all our sakes, let us hope not. 🙂

So are we at the North Pole? Anyway, Happy Christmas to all.

And usually it seems to be men who suffer the complications. The worst women have to deal with is wondering if dressy trousers are OK, and then discovering that they are.

I must say that on the whole I haven’t found much difference, apart from actually getting Covid. My second cruise in 2023 was very little different from those in 2019.

Were there things like concerts in the afternoons? Or drama stuff? I think they used to have a book club pre-Covid.

Good gracious. How complicated. Thank you.

This is a genuine question. What is a mock turtle. I thought it was a type of soup! I think I may be living in the wrong century, or possibly the wrong universe.

I think that is the key to it. I love the sea days, and, though many of the activities often look quite inviting, I rarely participate, because I prefer to lounge on the balcony (or indoors, if very windy) allegedly reading a book, but mainly just watching the sea.

Sometimes they have wine cruises, with lots of wine events. These usually seem to be on cruises to the Med. The other activity which is universally praised, though I have never been involved with it so can’t speak from personal experience, is the water colour classes.

Why? Hygiene or variety for its own sake?

Apart from many of the other things, which may be simply a matter of personal taste, I can see that having to do a trip solo, when you were expecting to have a companion, must have been very dampening to the spirits, and you have my commiserations over that. Did you not eat at all in the MDR?

Are you sufficiently senior to have a choice in your working hours or do you have to do what you are told and look grateful?

I wish I could say the same thing about diamonds. 😀

I totally agree that there cannot possibly be a connection between whatever others are wearing and how you feel, unless it is something so unwashed as to be smelly. Nonetheless, although I have no interest in clothes, I do find it an impressive and enjoyable experience to go into the restaurant and see everyone dressed up for a. Black and White Gala Night. The niceties of dress on informal nights are much less noticeable.

No quite, but I don’t think Cunard (or anyone else) should print notices that ignore women. A different issue I know, but it is genuinely hard at times to work out which sex parts of the dress code refer to.

So you think it really does mean women can’t wear strappy t-shirts there? Surely not.

And even that notice is obscure. Firstly, it seems to think selection is a plural noun. Secondly it seems to think all its passengers are male, or is it really banning women from wearing sleeveless t-shirts?

And one thing to comfort yourself with. When you get home, and go back to eating normally, or with a little more restraint than usual perhaps, the weight does seem to return to normal surprisingly quickly. I never weigh myself, but one can tell quite accurately from the skirt test.

Or, as someone on here once said: Cunard shoreside don’t even know they’ve got ships. Not universally true of course.

Well then what about Hamburg, as we are running though all the most Cunardy ports?