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I don’t know what else to advise you to try

It opens on my PC, iPhone and iPad. Like Lyle, I use Chrome.

Marion, I'm not on facebook either, but it opened in my browser easily. Try again

Fantastic! Great moves on that clip, too👏

After all these years of sailing waters far away, we've just booked our first cruise in Australian and New Zealand Waters: Cunard QE Sydney to Sydney (7-28 January 2023). We're wasting no time in using the cruise credits from our Barcelona to Sydney fiasco. Really looking forward to returning to New Zealand and Tasmania, this time in a ship.

Fingers crossed it all goes through as you are hoping, Lyle.

Thoughts and prayers for all souls affected, in any manner of ways

A great Friday night treat, and home made, too. Sounds perfect, Les...well done (except for the pineapple😆). Fire at will....

Oh Leigh, so very sorry to hear all that. A torn meniscus is extremely painful. I know from experience. I also had a baker’s cyst with mine. Believe it or not, stem cell therapy, in its infancy, cleared all that up for me. I’ve had a total knee replacement on the other leg. Years of skiing to blame, probably, but I wouldn’t change a thing. Our very best wishes for a speedy recovery, with no mire of that terrible pain.

Soft tissue, or osteoarthritis?

Oh dear….I don’t know where to start

Love Drambuie. with an after-dinner espresso coffee and a dash of vanilla icecream: perfect Scottish Affogato. I have a friend who calls this “I Forgetto”.

Good news, and fingers crossed for you🤞

Thanks, Marion. It is what it is, so we are happy we enjoyed a lovely holiday, complete with all but the last two days of a wonderful cruise. Oceania never disappoints, and the medical care I received aboard was first class. We have lots of time to explore how to use the Cunard credits, although we beed some time before looking at Cunard again after this experience. As our daughter said yesterday, they will probably drop these protocols for longer voyages very soon. They have already dropped all testing for shorter voyages.

Sorry Julie. Meant to reply to you🙏🏻

Thanks, Gut. Hope you’re ferling at least a little better niw

Thanks, Marion. Never mind, we’ve had a wonderful month-long holiday, including one of the best cruises ever (apart from the last two days)

Thanks, Leigh. On a brighter note, we just loved Padstow and Cornwall. Really lovely locals (apart from a couple of officious medical personnel😂). It’s a beautiful part of the world.

Terrible typos in that last post. Sorry🙄

Thanks, Les. It is totally ignored here. A pharmacist, and a practice nurse at different medical facilities in Padstow were quite dismissive of my requests fir advice on management, the pharmacist actually saying, and I quote, “we don’t take Covid seriously in the UK, anything other than basic paracetamol is overkill”. Mario said I should have replied that Covid got rid of their last Prime Minister😂. No madks, no isolation fir quite some time now, and everyone seems to be coughing🙄

So very sorry to read of your complex medical situation, and to know you’re in constant pain and discomfort. You’re in our thoughts, and like Les, in our prayers. our tale of woe pales in contrast, but our big news is that we fly home tomorrow, having been denied by Cunard to board QE in Barcelona tomorrow for our much anticipated voyage home. Cunard stipulates that for longer voyages such as this, a negative, observed lateral flow (rapid antigen) test myst be taken and the necessary “Fit to Travel” cert. confirming, within 48 hrs of boarding. Anyone diagnosed with Covid within 10 days of embarkation date will be denied boarding. My positive result on our Oceania cruise was on 28 Sept, 12 days from Cunard embarkation, and therefore outside the 10 day exclusion period. I have official documentation from Oceania Sirena’s chief medical officer confirming this. He also issued a Fit to Travel cert for me for 5 days after diagnosis. I am no longer infectious, and haven’t been for many days, but because I returned a positive RAT yesterday (that can happen for sometime) and also the Cunard UK official I spoke to agreeing I would probably be the safest passenger aboard, he said Cunard International (who I need to talk to because we booked in Australia and who will not be available to take calls till Monday, embarkation day) will still deny me permission to board. No consideration at all of documented proof of why my result is positive. Oh well, Cunard will apparently grant future cruise credits for the fare, and will refund the amounts we paid for tours. Home to our family (wonderful) and to the deluges (not so wonderful).

Well, that’s positive news all round. Hope your recovery continues apace, and hope the offer is what you’re both seeking. Best of luck.

How are you feeling, Lyle?

Hope you get a good answer really quickly, and with no more discomfort 🙏🏻