Josy1953

Reduced baseline prices are all well and good, but given the cutbacks are they cheap in real terms, only if you want the very basics maybe. You may be right but in my opinion it is a Carnival decision to have a cheap option to tempt newcomers to the cruise market. Those of us who have been cruising for many years have seen a lot of cutbacks and are reaching a point where P&O are too far behind other lines for us to continue to sail with them.

I think that the move away from P&O has already begun. We now only do 1 cruise a year with P&O. We met up with recently with a number of people who we originally met on P&O cruises and they are all doing the same as us. If one of the other lines did regular winter cruises out of Southampton I doubt if we would do any P&O cruises but DH can't fly so we will continue with winter cruises on P&O.

Another early morning for me courtesy of the birds who decided that 4 am is a good time to start singing. The good thing about being awake so early is that the washing is alr easy out to dry on the line. We have clear blue sky at the moment and it is already 9°c. Have a good day.

Is it important to know who the captain is on the ship before you board ? I have never been concerned enough to wonder who the captain will be. We have had captains who have been almost invisible and we have had captains who have been out and about around the ship throughout the cruise but they make little difference to our enjoyment of the cruise

A beautiful sunny morning here. It is still a cool 11° but it is forecast to get up to 17° later so an improvement on the recent temperatures. I am being optimistic and decided that it is time to bring out some of of my lighter clothes. Have a great day whatever you are doing today.

Our bowls match was late starting because several men on both teams were too interested in checking their phones for Stoke's score and then discussing it.🙂

A grey morning here but it is supposed to brighten up later so hopefully I can dry the washing outside this morning and I won't need my waterproofs for bowling this afternoon. I managed another good night sleep of 6hrs 58mins.

I am leaving the insomniacs group today, this is what my fitbit is telling me I slept last night. I can't remember when I last had this much sleep. I must have been exhausted after the bowling match.

The last time I was asked to wear a gown at the hospital they gave me 2, 1 to wear with openning at the back and the other with the openning at the front. I think that this is a practice that should be in place where ever you have to use one because I am always worried about whatever they are going to do me so I can do without the extra worry of showing off parts of my body that I like to keep covered.

Morning all, A cool, grey day but at least it isn't raining at the moment. I have taken the children to school and was surprised to see that the road that was dug up 2 weeks ago is being dug up again this morning. I really think that the various works should be co-ordinated in some way. Have a good day.

It is a lovely sunny day here at 18°. DH is currently outside doing cleaning up the garden furniture and hoping that the current sunny weather is a sign that we will soon be spending a lot of time outside. I am hoping that it stays warm for bowling tonight.

It is quite bright and a pleasant 10° but it is forecast for light showers later. The good thing is that the washing has dried outside today🙂

I was just reading our MP's monthly newsletter and was amazed to see that we now have a bus service from our area. I may give it a try the next time I need to go into the city centre rather than take the car. I can no longer winge that I have a bus pass but no bus. 🤣

A cool bright, sunny morning here. Not a lot planned other than the school run and then out to look for some clothes in preparation for our next cruise now that it is creeping up on us. My S-i-L has just text to ask when DH and I are free to meet up with her and her son. So 2 nice things to look forward to.

We stocked up last week at our favourite wine merchants., as you say not as cheap as Tesco etc but well worth a visit as the supermarkets don't stock my favourite wine.

Happy birthday Avril

I have been to Tesco this morning too and when I saw the wine offer I bought 6 bottles red to top up our wine rack. Too good an offer to miss 🍷🍷

It would be a nice to meet up. My sister and her husband are checking how it fits in with their work schedules so they may be going too. I have already decided to give my bowling match a miss if no one else has already booked the evening off.

Message for wine drinking Stokies, Whitebridge Wines are having their Spring wine tasting : Thursday, 23rd May 5pm – 9pm £15 per ticket

Good to know that P&O are sticking pretty much to the scheduled boarding times. Have a great cruise.

I am sure Zap will look lovely choosing his new handbags, I hopes he sends us some photos

I have just had a long online chat with a young man at Direct Line car insurance. When we picked the car up on Friday they gave us 4 days insurance to give us time to change our insurance over. I have been trying since yesterday to change the insurance on line but it kept insisting that the car model only had an automatic trasmission but it is manual. The young man was able to override the system after he checked that Mazda do still produce a manual version of the car. He did say that this happened more frequently since more people are buying automatics.

I found it strange that after my mum went blind she was entitled to 50% reduction on the tv licence even though my dad was still living on the same house so I thought that he should pay for a full licence. I also couldn't understand why a blind person would want to get a TV licence but as mum told me she still liked to listen to her favourite programs.

A cold but dry morning here at the moment but I am expecting it to rain from 2:00 to 5:30 to coincide with our bowling match because we have had it cold and wet for most of the games that we have already played this season. My waterproofs are definitely getting plentry of use. . 🌧️🌧️

I can't say that I have ever noticed anyone excessively filming but that could be that I rarely take any notice of what others are doing but if I had children with me I would be very upset to see some one filming the children. No one knows where they are posting their films on the internet, it could be on a site used by pedophiles.