P&O Cruisers - What are things like where YOU are?

[kalos]

3 minutes ago, terrierjohn said:

I quite enjoy Aunt Bessies Yorkshire puds, well they are much better than my own attempts over recent years.

 

Memory serves me right you tried using it as a hair restorer (you got the batter everywhere )

Some people are good at making them whilst others are good at re-heating Aunt Bessies which means everyone's happy 

[SarahHben]

1 hour ago, P&O SUE said:

Thanks Sarah, to be honest it’s only a few bits we need before we’re allowed out. Trying to avoid crowded Christmas shops and any bexit problems we’d built up a bit of a stock of tinned items, shampoo etc! I even got dishwasher tablets from Amazon 😆

That’s good 😊

[grapau27]

5 hours ago, AndyMichelle said:

I have been trying to keep out of this debate as it goes round in circles. 

Regardless of which way we voted, we have it now and have to get on with it, it will get better. 

I am glad you understood the consequences John, but unfortunately people close to me who voted leave are blaming the deal, not the decision to leave for the current issues and had little understanding of the inevitable trading changes when voting to 'look after our own' by reducing immigration and spend the Billions saved on our NHS. 

My views are not a leave/remain argument, just an observation of what I see. 

Andy 

Good points Andy.

If we had left in 2017 a year after the vote things would have been different and a lot better but now four and a half years later ???

[wowzz]

Just been round the shops today. Like a ghost town really - very quiet. But why do some people insist on shopping in couples,  when they are both fit and well?  They stand side by side pontificating about what flavour of washing up liquid to use, oblivious to the fact that they are blocking up the entire aisle.

In fact the cashier in Aldi told the couple behind me that next week they would not be both allowed into the store at the same time - quite right too!

[grapau27]

4 hours ago, P&O SUE said:

We saw that Harry, very interesting.

Hope John is okay Sue.

I have had to get my prescription and now on the way to the bank.

Lots of cars on the road.

Stay safe everyone.

Graham.

Edited January 15, 2021 by grapau27

[yorkshirephil]

1 hour ago, Adawn47 said:

Wouldn't that depend on who dug the hole in the first place? e.g. Man digging hole - manhole cover. Woman digging hole - woman errr, I think I'd better stop there😳

Avril

What happens if its a non specified gender hole digger? I googled it and got this;

[kalos]

13 minutes ago, wowzz said:

Just been round the shops today. Like a ghost town really - very quiet. But why do some people insist on shopping in couples,  when they are both fit and well?  They stand side by side pontificating about what flavour of washing up liquid to use, oblivious to the fact that they are blocking up the entire aisle.

In fact the cashier in Aldi told the couple behind me that next week they would not be both allowed into the store at the same time - quite right too!

 

We haven't been shopping in over a year but one of our lads was saying exactly the same as you . He told us another pet hate is they maul half of the produce before putting one in their trolley .Why ?

 

[Son of Anarchy]

1 hour ago, davecttr said:

Gillingham High Street looks like one of those abandoned wild west towns, including the tumbleweed blowing down it.

Sounds like Basildon town centre before Covid.

[Dermotsgirl]

1 hour ago, davecttr said:

A report yesterday that a positive COVID individual had been fined £1000 for visiting a shopping centre in Gillingham, must be Hempstead Valley because Gillingham High Street looks like one of those abandoned wild west towns, including the tumbleweed blowing down it.

Gillingham High Street has always been a bit like that! 

[AndyMichelle]

1 hour ago, kalos said:

 

All this Brexit is really hitting home now .The Mrs informs me that our shop delivery has arrived and all is present and correct ,nothing missing !  Apart from my Sugar Free Polo Mints 

I know they have plenty as the factory at York churns out 1.37 million packs per day .

Who can I blame ??? Bad management /workforce or software/paperwork .. All of them ?

You would think after making them for over 70 years they would have got the hang of transporting the mints 50 odd miles down the road wouldn't you . All I can put it down to is interference from over the channel .Well my message is " Bonjour-mon-chuckallo ,I have a mini stockpile of them .You may stop us eating your cheeses but you will not stop me eating our English mints !" 

I will buy British ,we have to get on with it ,I never heard my Granddad saying he was gagging for a baguette ..Where's your Mothers Pride ?  We will get there !

They have plenty of stock Kalos, they just need to take the sugar out for you... 

They are British made, but the hole is imported... 😊🕳️

Andy 

[lincslady]

No doubt those interested will already know about them , but I have recently discovered some cruise programmes on Quest, at noon some days, featuring different ships - today Royal Clipper - which to me are interesting and varied, with lots about the ships and the ports.  A few years old, but good that they do not seem to be advertising the lines, unlike the one on tonight on 5 about the super blingy Seven Seas Explorer, which I found almost nauseous in its determination to show how much had been spent on the ship build.

[Son of Anarchy]

1 minute ago, lincslady said:

No doubt those interested will already know about them , but I have recently discovered some cruise programmes on Quest, at noon some days, featuring different ships - today Royal Clipper - which to me are interesting and varied, with lots about the ships and the ports.  A few years old, but good that they do not seem to be advertising the lines, unlike the one on tonight on 5 about the super blingy Seven Seas Explorer, which I found almost nauseous in its determination to show how much had been spent on the ship build.

They transmitted the one about Marco Polo the day before she was run up the beach to be scrapped.  Will be keeping that one for a while out of posterity, sailed on her as a kid when she was Alexander Pushkin.

[wowzz]

6 minutes ago, lincslady said:

No doubt those interested will already know about them , but I have recently discovered some cruise programmes on Quest, at noon some days, featuring different ships - today Royal Clipper - which to me are interesting and varied, with lots about the ships and the ports.  A few years old, but good that they do not seem to be advertising the lines, unlike the one on tonight on 5 about the super blingy Seven Seas Explorer, which I found almost nauseous in its determination to show how much had been spent on the ship build.

Sea Princess was on this week.

[brian1]

19 minutes ago, Son of Anarchy said:

Sounds like Basildon town centre before Covid.

Best shop there is the West Ham shop,lol.

[Harry Peterson]

36 minutes ago, Son of Anarchy said:

Sounds like Basildon town centre before Covid.

Thriving in the early 80s. The go-to place. What went wrong - just general shopping changes?

[zap99]

1 hour ago, grapau27 said:

Hope John is okay Sue.

I have had to get my prescription and now on the way to the bank.

Lots of cars on the road.

Stay safe everyone.

Graham.

I find when I am driving the car it's best to stay on the road.🤣

[zap99]

1 hour ago, Son of Anarchy said:

Sounds like Basildon town centre before Covid.

Didn't 007 live there?. Basildon Bond 🤔

[yorkshirephil]

Just now, zap99 said:

Didn't 007 live there?. Basildon Bond 🤔

Russ Abbot then?

[Eddie99]

Positive thought for today

 

It’s beyond noon on 15th.  Therefore we’ve passed halfway through January.  Hooray!  On the downward slope to the end of the month now ... and then February is really short; goodness, winter is nearly over

 

Saw a lovely clump of snowdrops today.  

[P&O SUE]

3 hours ago, Dermotsgirl said:

We get various drivers, and we’ve had a young man, so it could have been him. They are all very friendly and helpful 

That’s good to hear.

[P&O SUE]

1 hour ago, Dermotsgirl said:

Gillingham High Street has always been a bit like that! 

Now my mum will tell you it was a thriving place before Tesco left it! I have very vague memories of Debenhams in Gillingham, that WAS a long time ago!

[P&O SUE]

11 minutes ago, Eddie99 said:

Positive thought for today

 

It’s beyond noon on 15th.  Therefore we’ve passed halfway through January.  Hooray!  On the downward slope to the end of the month now ... and then February is really short; goodness, winter is nearly over

 

Saw a lovely clump of snowdrops today.  

People always tell me they hate February when I say I hate January but I always answer that it’s so short it’s soon March!

[grapau27]

3 minutes ago, P&O SUE said:

People always tell me they hate February when I say I hate January but I always answer that it’s so short it’s soon March!

Just got my eye operation date February 3rd so roll on March.

[grapau27]

Just now, grapau27 said:

Just got my eye operation date February 3rd so roll on March.

Boris is doing an update at 5pm today on TV.

[P&O SUE]

3 hours ago, davecttr said:

A report yesterday that a positive COVID individual had been fined £1000 for visiting a shopping centre in Gillingham, must be Hempstead Valley because Gillingham High Street looks like one of those abandoned wild west towns, including the tumbleweed blowing down it.

😡 I hope that’s not where my husband caught it then! Apart from work it’s the only place he’s been in the last 2 weeks!