grapau27 Posted March 4 #55901 Share Posted March 4 (edited) 1 hour ago, kalos said: Sue's cafe car park ? Close. Overlooking Roker beach. Edited March 4 by grapau27 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut006 Posted March 4 #55902 Share Posted March 4 Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful sunny morning here, good weather is forecast for most of the week - hopefully I am going into Lytham soon, need last bits for our cruise which has come around really quickly and I now find myself under pressure as I have loads of other things to do. Need to get the grandchildren Easter eggs too, they like the ones from Thornton’s with their name on it. Then hospital appointment for my mum this afternoon for a check up. She is doing really well compared to where she was. Have a nice day everyone whatever you are doing Michelle 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted March 4 #55903 Share Posted March 4 25 minutes ago, grapau27 said: Close. Overlooking Roker beach. We have spent many happy days and nights there ☺️ 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshirephil Posted March 4 #55904 Share Posted March 4 Another gorgeous morning here, quite warm now in the sun albeit frosty first thing. I put both lines of washing out just before 08:00 and my little pinkies were frozen. Mrs YP usually sorts the washing as she has her way and I don't do it the same, so not my place to argue. However she has trochanteric-pain-syndrome where the bursis on her hip is swollen and she is struggling to walk properly so obviously I have stood up to the plate and taken over domestic duties. I will be monitoring her to make sure she isn't swinging the lead. For anyone that uses Costa, they have their gift card offer available where you get £5 off per £20 purchase. As usual I will be taking advantage and sending Mrs YP some gift cards, especially as it will be her birthday soon. I will have to stop spoiling her. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare SarahHben Posted March 4 #55905 Share Posted March 4 Hi everyone We've had an exciting weekend, baby grandson was born Friday morning, he missed being a 29th Feb baby by 1 hour, he's totally gorgeous 🥰 We've also started thinking about our end of May cruise, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express M27 Jct.7 the night before our first 2 cruises. We have a room booked there again for this year but wondered if it's worth spending extra to stay in the main Holiday Inn in Southampton? The cost is twice as much but there is cricket on at the Ageas Bowl on the night of our stay again and last time that made parking at the hotel very difficult. Any opinions welcome. 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 4 #55906 Share Posted March 4 7 minutes ago, SarahHben said: Hi everyone We've had an exciting weekend, baby grandson was born Friday morning, he missed being a 29th Feb baby by 1 hour, he's totally gorgeous 🥰 We've also started thinking about our end of May cruise, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express M27 Jct.7 the night before our first 2 cruises. We have a room booked there again for this year but wondered if it's worth spending extra to stay in the main Holiday Inn in Southampton? The cost is twice as much but there is cricket on at the Ageas Bowl on the night of our stay again and last time that made parking at the hotel very difficult. Any opinions welcome. Congratulations on the birth of your baby grandson. The Holiday Inn is next to the gate of City Terminal. We stayed once years ago and had rooms overlooking the Solent and had great views of the ships arriving and departing. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel57 Posted March 4 #55907 Share Posted March 4 @SarahHben many, many congratulations on the birth of your grandson. Gill x 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Eddie99 Posted March 4 #55908 Share Posted March 4 Congratulations @SarahHben How wonderful for you all It’s a wet and windy afternoon here, but the forecast for the week is hopeful 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted March 4 #55909 Share Posted March 4 Glad all is well to know and mum and baby are doing fine .😀 We stayed at the Holiday Inn last cruise and had no problems apart from they were having the lifts refurbed so one was out of service of the two . That was late October so should be sorted by now . When staying here before check in we refueled the car and had a great chippy meal at Mikes fish @chips just top side of the garage . Should you want to do either here's directions ... Garage 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted March 4 #55910 Share Posted March 4 21 minutes ago, kalos said: Glad all is well to know and mum and baby are doing fine .😀 We stayed at the Holiday Inn last cruise and had no problems apart from they were having the lifts refurbed so one was out of service of the two . That was late October so should be sorted by now . When staying here before check in we refueled the car and had a great chippy meal at Mikes fish @chips just top side of the garage . Should you want to do either here's directions ... Garage Lifts still being refurbed in January. Am there next week so maybe they will be done by then! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted March 4 #55911 Share Posted March 4 2 hours ago, SarahHben said: We've had an exciting weekend, baby grandson was born Friday morning, he missed being a 29th Feb baby by 1 hour, he's totally gorgeous Many congratulations to you both on the safe arrival of your beautiful grandson.💐 Avril 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lincslady Posted March 4 #55912 Share Posted March 4 Congratulations on your news - an auspicious day; my gorgeous daughter was born on 1st March, and her idle twin brother on 2nd! (Four hours apart). She is still gorgeous, he is no longer idle, though he was up to being about 25. I feel sure that although interesting to be born on Leap Year day, he will appreciate having a proper birthday every year and not having to wait four years for or his first birthday. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beckett Posted March 4 #55913 Share Posted March 4 Many congratulations @SarahHben. Such a happy day for you all. Wishing your little one a life filled with love, laughter and the very best of health. Jane xx 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted March 4 #55914 Share Posted March 4 8 hours ago, Splice the mainbrace said: We got back on Thursday from our QM2 cruise from Cape Town to Sydney and surprisingly had virtually zero jet lag. Our management of the return flight seemed to work, i.e. live uk time after leaving Sydney with regards to when to sleep and eat on the flight, get the pain over before landing. We had a couple of uncontrolled 10 minutes naps over the first couple of days back but a part from that we got back into uk sleep patterns without a problem. Welcome home. I enjoyed reading all about your holiday and seeing all the photos. Thank you. We all have our own tricks to try and combat jet lag on long haul flights. We would set our watches to UK time after take off when the seat belt signs were turned off, and then only used UK time to try to gradually adjust. It didn't work 100% of the time, but worked more often than not. Avril 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare SarahHben Posted March 4 #55915 Share Posted March 4 (edited) Thank you all 🥰 baby was 12 days late and our daughter was worried he'd be a whopper but he was a perfectly respectable 7lb. His older brother hasn't plucked up the courage to get too close yet, he's appreciating him from a safe distance 😂 Thanks for info on Holiday Inn. If we were to have a late embarkation time on Britannia, we had 3:30pm on Ventura last year, do you know if they allow people to stay in the hotel lounge area? We're torn between Holiday Inn Express - much cheaper and great breakfast but will need to arrive mid afternoon to get a parking space and then there's not much to do locally, or Holiday Inn ...paying quite a bit more but have places to walk to. Edited March 4 by SarahHben 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodaxe Posted March 4 #55916 Share Posted March 4 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Adawn47 said: Welcome home. I enjoyed reading all about your holiday and seeing all the photos. Thank you. We all have our own tricks to try and combat jet lag on long haul flights. We would set our watches to UK time after take off when the seat belt signs were turned off, and then only used UK time to try to gradually adjust. It didn't work 100% of the time, but worked more often than not. Avril Never found jet lag a problem when flying from South Africa has you don't cross time zones. Sorry, just realised they flew from Sydney totally different. Edited March 4 by Bloodaxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted March 4 #55917 Share Posted March 4 3 hours ago, kalos said: Glad all is well to know and mum and baby are doing fine .😀 We stayed at the Holiday Inn last cruise and had no problems apart from they were having the lifts refurbed so one was out of service of the two . That was late October so should be sorted by now . When staying here before check in we refueled the car and had a great chippy meal at Mikes fish @chips just top side of the garage . Should you want to do either here's directions ... Garage Thank god for that.We got stuck in one of those lifts for 20 mins 5 years ago.We got out just as the fire brigade turned up,lol. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut006 Posted March 4 #55918 Share Posted March 4 4 hours ago, SarahHben said: Hi everyone We've had an exciting weekend, baby grandson was born Friday morning, he missed being a 29th Feb baby by 1 hour, he's totally gorgeous 🥰 We've also started thinking about our end of May cruise, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express M27 Jct.7 the night before our first 2 cruises. We have a room booked there again for this year but wondered if it's worth spending extra to stay in the main Holiday Inn in Southampton? The cost is twice as much but there is cricket on at the Ageas Bowl on the night of our stay again and last time that made parking at the hotel very difficult. Any opinions welcome. Congratulations on the birth of your grandson!!! Hope mum and baby are both ok. I am sure you will be looking forward to many Grandma cuddles Michelle 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawn47 Posted March 4 #55919 Share Posted March 4 43 minutes ago, brian1 said: Thank god for that.We got stuck in one of those lifts for 20 mins 5 years ago.We got out just as the fire brigade turned up,lol. Mrs brian must have been very disappointed.😒 I know I would have been😉😁 Sis 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josy1953 Posted March 4 #55920 Share Posted March 4 There is a serious case of "man flu" in this house tonight. I think that we need to be a vaccination against it because it is very a very serious illness 🤣🤣🤣 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare P&O SUE Posted March 4 #55921 Share Posted March 4 Many congratulations on your lovely news @SarahHben ! Re the hotels, I’ve stayed at the Holiday Inn by the terminals once and it’s so close to everything in town. I was shocked at the price this year so we’re staying at the one near the cricket ground in June! At Easter we’re staying at the Hilton overlooking the cricket ground itself, looking forward to that! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian1 Posted March 5 #55922 Share Posted March 5 Just be aware that the adjacent gate is closed to the public before,during and after the boat show for lorries setting up the show.It was a mission walking to the next gate with cases not realising how far and awkward it was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalos Posted March 5 #55923 Share Posted March 5 10 hours ago, P&O SUE said: At Easter we’re staying at the Hilton overlooking the cricket ground itself, looking forward to that! Hope you have a good time Sue .We found the hotel and breakfast and the transfers to the port very good . The other meal services were on the pricy side so we used a pub recommend by one of the staff . Called The West End Brewery .Very easy to get to and you have other shops very close by such as ASDA store for your last minute things or snacks for your hotel stay . Will put direction's should you need them ... HERE 🙂 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare SarahHben Posted March 5 #55924 Share Posted March 5 10 hours ago, P&O SUE said: Many congratulations on your lovely news @SarahHben ! Re the hotels, I’ve stayed at the Holiday Inn by the terminals once and it’s so close to everything in town. I was shocked at the price this year so we’re staying at the one near the cricket ground in June! At Easter we’re staying at the Hilton overlooking the cricket ground itself, looking forward to that! Thank you 😊 We decided last. Night that Holiday Inn in town was too expensive, over £200, so have booked Holiday Inn Fareham instead. We’ve stayed there before and it’s close to Port Solent shops and restaurants. Our first choice would have been HI Express near the cricket ground if it wasn’t for cricket being on that day and likely to be busy, they do a good breakfast 😊 Are you staying there pre-cruise? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapau27 Posted March 5 #55925 Share Posted March 5 Good morning. 7°F and raining here. It is a sad day today as it is my Late Dad's 12th Memory. I hope everyone is well and you all have a good day. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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