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I’ve been twice on Britannia, in 2017 and 2022. The first time we saw Eric and Ernie, they were really good and they posed for photos afterwards with everyone. Not everyone’s taste but we all enjoyed it. Lots of young people said they’d enjoyed it too! Food was really good and as I’d booked early we got seats right at the front. Second time we saw Ray Quinn and he was brilliant. Now they don’t seat you by what order you booked it but we had a decent enough seat. Ray sang swing songs mostly and also talked about his life a bit ( I loved him on Dancing on Ice!) and enjoyed quite a bit of banter with the audience. The food wasn’t quite as good this time but good enough. It’s nice to have your meal and entertainment all in the same place.

I’m still not entirely sure what day it is after Christmas etc so I genuinely worried I was looking at an old thread 😂

Hello all, I’ve just skimmed read the last few pages I’m afraid, I got sidetracked by Selbourne and Mrs Goggins reports 😁 I’ve been looking for news of Frank, so I know it’s worrying Avril, but hopefully they can sort him out now. My Dad was under the heart failure team for about 10 years they can do wonders now. My mum has been in her nursing home for just over a week now and it’s still stressful! She phones me up telling me she’s lost things 🙄 Meanwhile my sister is in the Canaries…. ho hum! hugs to all x

Yes that annoys me too, I’m sure there’s loads of people walking round with higher levels than me! I’m around 3. Years ago my mum’s was 8!! 😱

Oh no, hope she recovers well. What a sad ending to her cruise.

Gorgeous Selbourne. Im following with interest as usual. Thanks for taking the time to do this and I hope you manage to miss the storm. By the way, you really confused me dating some of your posts as March!!!

@mrsgoggins I’ve just come across your report, really enjoying it thank you. Look forward to reading more.

I was on Ventura in June and we had our crepes made by our table, loved it!

Only just seen this Avril, big hugs to you both, hope he’s improving today.

Morning all, I was steadily catching up and then this forum went down! I’ll have to catch up later. We had a nice two days with the family, although obviously missing Dad. We went to our son’s Christmas Day and our DiL did her usual huge spread! My sis and bro in law and mum came too.Our grandson was the star of the show and very excited. Boxing day we went to our DiL’s sister for their mad Boxing Day they always have but we’ve never been invited to before! They have a daughter two years older than our grandson and they’re very close and there were other cousins there (some I’ve met before some I hadn’t!) we had to take Mum of course and a great time was had! Friday 29th we took Mum to her nursing home. She’s got a nice room but so far she hasn’t been to the lounge. They’ve got a party this afternoon so hopefully she’ll enjoy that. We took her to the local pantomime yesterday which was very good. My sister is coming up to see her today . We do have some issues at the moment but hopefully it’s just settling in issues. John went back to work this morning!! Very odd for me being alone in the house! He’s doing a phased return so 6am-10am and is due home any minute so I’ll sign off for now. Happy New Year to you all!

That is so lovely, you must have been so proud.

It’s funny you’ve all said the same thing, i remember my mum and dad both saying they didn’t know how they had time for work after they retired!

Yup even me at just turned 59 haven’t got a final salary pension. I think I did in my very first job in the bank but I left to have my son and didn’t want to leave him with a stranger! When I went back to the bank when he was 11 it wasn’t a final pension scheme.

Morning all, after today I have 5 days off. I’m looking forward to Christmas Day itself as we’ll be all together at our son’s. Mum, John and I, my sister and her husband. Then we have the task of getting everything together for mum’s move on the 29th! I’ve got some stick on name labels from good old Amazon! Hope everyone has a lovely day spent the way they want to.

Wow, I’m surprised they’re still in school. Round here most schools broke up Tuesday/Wednesday.

After 30 years in teaching my sister now works part time in a library! She loves been able to holiday outside of August! She’s also got involved with teaching adults to read arranged by the library.

Happy retirement! Not jealous at all…,

My mum gets more pension than I get in wages!!

Actual Christmas Day I normally enjoy with our family. It’s all the build up and busy shops beforehand I hate! Also John and I normally only have Christmas Day and Boxing day off and often John works Boxing Day as well!

That does sound a talk that would be interesting!

Thank you Jane for your kind words. She can be very strong willed so I do hope she likes it there.

I was delighted Ellie won Strictly, sent her all my free online votes. Her American Smooth was classic with a perfect song to match. I thought they all did well though and it was a great Final.

😁 to the Canaries cruise! Not for a while, it’s in the back of my mind though! We have a four night Aurora cruise to look forward to at Easter though…

Thanks all for your kind words, made me cry again!