Josy1953

18 hours ago, brian1 said:

Great,you can carry on with the nudie sunbathing now😉.

The neighbours would all be putting their houses up for sale to get away from that sight 🤣

4 minutes ago, Peanut006 said:

Good afternoon everyone, it’s a sunny/cloudy day here, feels a bit cool though, car said 14 degrees when I was out late morning.

 

Jane, it’s nice to see you posting again.

 

Josy, I am glad that planning has been refused and you don’t have to move.

 

Taking my mum for a check up at the Drs this afternoon, fingers crossed all is good.

 

Michelle

 

 

Thank you.

Fingers crossed for your mum this  afternoon. 

How things change, we used to rely on parents to help us out and then it switched round and we helped them out as they got older and less mobile.

@lincslady @Adawn47  it's definitely a big relief because we had to take our house off the market when my sister was taken ill because she can't drive now and we don't know when or if she will be able to drive again so I can't  move away as long as I have to do the school run for her grandchildren. Another of my sisters is going to do the school run while we are on holiday but she looks after her 2 year old granddaughter while her daughter is working so can't  easily do the school run permanently.  She is moaning about having to pay school holiday prices for her holidays again because her daughter is a teacher lol.

I have just had a telephone call from our local councillor who I have been working with to stop the house adjacent to us being turned into a care home.  He had told me that the planning permission has been refused.  My next job is to tell the residents of our close that we have been successful in our appeals against the planning permission.

From pouring rain to this, I  hope it stays like this.

I dumped the teenagers at school at their respective times.  The eldest told me that after Wednesday he has finished until college in September.  Miss Grumpy told me that she thinks that she should be able to finish on Wednesday too, I was very sympathetic and suggested that she raises the subject with dad, I know that she won't get anywhere with that 🤣🤣

3 hours ago, Beckett said:

Good Morning! 

 

I hope you are all well. Although I've had a short break I haven't really been away as I've still been following this thread and also @Megabear2 and @Selbourne on their Queen Anne voyages.  

 

The adventures of @brian1 and @yorkshirephil kept me reading with great interest. It was so lovely that you all met up and seemed to be having a good time all together. Glad you hear you've received refunds so promptly. 

 

i hope the mums are doing well and recovering well Michelle and Sue. Best wishes all round.

 

Me and Ted are doing ok although I've got a string of referrals in the pipeline following incidental findings on the CT scans after my fall. I would certainly have an "assistance needed" label should I book a cruise at the moment!

 

As ever, I send you all my very best wishes. Jane xxx

Take care Jane.  I hope that all of your referrals go well, it is a worrying time waiting for appointments and results.  I hope that you will soon be in a position to cruise again soon.

Good morning, another heavy rain morning.  I was woken at 4:50 by the phone ringing so had to jump out of bed and rush through to get the phone on case it was something important, it was one of those foreign call centres so I was really annoyed. DH can always manage to sleep through anything.

I hope everyone has a better start to the day.

21 minutes ago, bobstheboy said:

This is mainly for Brian although others may be interested. I am travelling to York today and meeting up with a first cousin, Charles, the son of my birth fathers brother. It will be the first time I will knowingly have met a blood family member. He is from Nebraska and travelling with his wife on a European tour. 

 

My wife, Marie and I will be staying a couple of nights and will show them some Yorkshire countryside, although the weather is not forecast to be good. If there is any interest I will report back after I return home.

I hope that you have a great time with your family members.  It must be wonderful to be finally meeting a member of your blood family, hopefully you will be able to find more information about your other blood relatives.

No sun here today, it is 9° and grey sky at thr moment and it is forecast to get up to 14° but staying grey.

Have a good day.

7 hours ago, pete14 said:

Do spectators get lemon drizzle tray bake too? If I wasn’t in Wales at the moment, it would be worth coming along just for that, and watching the game too of course, but mainly the cake. 😊

Yes, we let spectators to have tea, coffee and whatever biscuits and cakes we have.  One of the ladies on the opposition team asked one of our players who made the cake and then came and asked if I could I email the recipe to her, I have just done so.

We won the game 189 - 87 even though we were short of players due to people being on holiday so some of us played twice, once in singles and once in doubles I won my singles match 21 - 5 and with the my doubles partner we won 21 - 10 so a good afternoon. 

Our captain was happy because he was concerned with having to ask 3 of us to play in doubles after playing in singles but we did it, I'm sure that there would have been some moaning if it had been raining.

A lovely morning now though it was dull and drizzling earlier.  It is 12 ° at the moment but is forecast to get up to 14° so a nice afternoon to look forward to for bowling. 

We are bowling at home and have to provide the refreshments so I have baked a lemon drizzle tray bake as my contribution.

Have a great day whatever you are doing.

3 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Pauline and I keep ourselves to ourselves especially at Dinner and the speciality restaurants provide the ambience,table for 2 instantly where we want to sit,food quality and service to make our cruise extra special and worth the extra money to us but the food in the MDR has never been an issue for us.

We also prefer to have a table for 2, not because we are anti-social but because we found many cruises ago that we never eat more than 3 courses and it feels rude to get up and leave the table while other people are still eating.

We also invariably eat in the speciality restaurants several times a week just for the quieter experience.

The reason for the early start is so that the teachers can be sure that everyone is in school before the scheduled exam time and can calm the nervous pupils .  They use the time before the exam starts to do last minute cramming although if they haven't already revised I can't see the point.  Anyone who needs to can use the restrooms before going into the hall.  They go into the hall at 8:45, find their seats and settle down before the exam starts at 9am. 

1 hour ago, pete14 said:

8:15 seems awfully early for an exam to start. I guess there must be a reason.🤔

I'll ask him tonight if there's a reason for the early starts.  I am sure a lot of the parents / grandparents would prefer a bit later start because I'm not the only person doing a double school run, I know that at least one person is doing it because I see one of our neighbours doing it most days.  The last exam is next Wednesday so he won't be going to school after that, it will be college in September for A-levels and he can catch a bus to get there.

One child delivered to school in time for his exam that starts at 8:15 back and waiting for madam to appear ready to go to school, she is just like her mum was, time doesn't matter.

Good morning,  A lovely sunny morning  but only 9° at the moment.  A busy day planned for us, the school run then shopping for some new clothes since I have lost weight and DH has gained a little so I need a size smaller and he needs a size larger for clothes that are more fitted. We will have lunch out on the way home before the school pickup beckons.

4 hours ago, sandancer said:

I’ve had more luck with the 0800 number. No idea why.

Probably because they have to pay for calls receive on 0800 numbers, the 0800 numbers are only free to the caller so the person being called doesn’t want callers hanging on listening  to canned music.

3 hours ago, Ardennais said:

You seem to do an awful lot of housework Josy! 

I hoover and polish everyday, it goes back to when we had a dog and a cat so it needed to be done because of the hair that they used to spread around. It is automatic now.

47 minutes ago, yorkshirephil said:

Us too, we are only having a practice run for when we get old. When we booked one of the first questions was "Are you able to climb steep flights of stairs?"

An ageist question 🤣,  I am over 70 and have no problem climbing steep stairs, I do it most day when I go out for my walk because at one point the path that I am walking along ends and there is a flight of 20 steep concrete steps to get up to the road.

I am watching the D day celebrations too.  It is lovely to see the surviving veterans wearing their medals.  My dad was in Royal Navy and hated talking about the war because he was on a ship that was topedoed.  Dad told us that the only good thing that he recalled from the war was when he was picked up by another Royal Navy ship he was reunited with his 2 brothers.  His oldest brother Jack was serving on that ship and his younger brother Charlie had been picked up a few days earlier after his ship was torpedoed.

Good morning, where are the early risers today.  I was woken by the birds at just after 4am and gave up trying to go back to sleep so got up at 4:45 to do the housework, as DH says it is fortunate that we are detached.

It is a bit grey at the moment and only 12° but hopefully it will stay dry and warm up later.

Have a great day.

1 hour ago, hamilton girl said:

Is anyone else having trouble making payments using P and O online system.  I have tried four times recently and have not been successful. The system seem to take the payment but my balance remained the same.  This meant I had to keep watch on my bank account for the payment going out.  Tried three times to pay using the payment telephone line but after 57 minutes wait each time I gave up.  Tried to email requesting help to make payments but no answer.  So frustrating.

When I need to call P&O ( or any of the other Carnival companies based in Southampton ) I find that the best time to call is 9:00, by 9:05 I have found that all agents are occupied so I have had to join queue and it takes ages to get to speak to.someone.

Good morning.  It is a bit cool but sunny 

We watched the Starmer Sunak debate last night so were up late but I heard my phone ping with a message at 5:45 so got up incase it was an emergency.  It was the children's dad letting me know that he gave his son "some headache tablets" last night but he only had 2 so could I give him 2 before school this morning.  Have a good day everyone.

52 minutes ago, yorkshirephil said:

We're home, that was a bit of a drag, our flight to Manchester from Munich changed to Gatwick  then an option of stay in Radisson and bus to Manchester next day or bus straight to Manchester. We took plan B as it is Mrs YP big, big big birthday today and she wasn't over keen on wasting it. All in all we enjoyed the cruise, loved Vienna and got to meet Brian and Marilyn @brian1 and had some cracking weather before getting to Germany. 

Happy Birthday Mrs YP🎂