I was lucky use to fly all over the world (at tax payers expense) got to see and stay in some beautiful places and some you would not wish on your worst enemy.
Now I'm content with just travelling the UK we have so much to see from snow caped mountains to empty sandy beaches what more could you wish for, OK its not always hot sunshine but I don't want that anymore when it does shine I look for cool shade these days.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
@Hostafan1. Do go to Vietnam if you get the chance, my step son took himself off there a few years back, he met a few back packers on the way, he said it was fantastic.
I remember in 1963 I belonged to the young liberals and we all went off for a weekend to butlins at Bognor, the chalets were still like army barracks, I don’t think they’d ever done any renovations since the war, or ever even, but the worse thing was that at the crack of dawn a speaker in every chalet played Zip a Dee Doo Dah that was soon dismantled! .
A relation of OH came back from cruise with Legionares disease!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've just phoned to order some heating oil " delivery will be any time between now and the 15th" "really? maybe send your driver out longer days and on Sundays?" " they can't work Sundays as they'd be over their working hours" " employ more drivers?????? I deliver for Waitrose every Sunday ,as do 7 of my colleagues"
I wonder if the concept of " service industry " applies these days.
But Hosta you do only do two days a week in a van, lorry drivers mustn’t go over their hours for health and safely reasons, and 5 days a week is plenty for a driver, if they had an accident through tiredness, we’d all be first to say they should put have been driving for so long. I think Taco’s in the lorry was the best thing ever, coming from a lorry driving family, my dad would drive for silly, silly hours to get to destinations and come home absolutely knackered.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
But Hosta you do only do two days a week in a van, lorry drivers mustn’t go over their hours for health and safely reasons, and 5 days a week is plenty for a driver, if they had an accident through tiredness, we’d all be first to say they should put have been driving for so long. I think Taco’s in the lorry was the best thing ever, coming from a lorry driving family, my dad would drive for silly, silly hours to get to destinations and come home absolutely knackered.
Employ more drivers and spread them out over 7 days????? Why have all the lorries sitting empty at the yard on a Sunday?
This might not be quite curmudeonly enough but... the only cruise I have ever been on was an Educational one to West Africa in 1968. It cost £63 pounds, which seemed a lot to me then and I can never thank my parents enough for deciding to let me go.
About 20 or so from my school went and we all slept in bunks in a dormitory cabin. There were daytime lectures about the countries we were to visit and other activities and plenty of time to enjoy on deck, with friends to talk to.
Saw the Canaries in the distance and bits of the shoreline along the 'Bulge' and then got to the Gambia. They had had to dredge the river to give enough draught for our ship, and there were trucks with those wooden forms you used to get in PE lessons for us to sit on. We were left free to wander round Bathurst (as it was then) and saw a scruffy patch of brown grass whch we were told was the cricket pitch and the market, an overwhelming impression of colour and sounds and smells, and small boys admiring my little camera and offering to pay for it with peanuts, literally, as they seemed to regard them as currency!
Many years later when the tourist industry was starting up there, I read an article warning against leaving the hotel complex for fear of 'culture shock'. Don't know how we all survived!
We also visited Tema and Takoradi in Ghana and Dakar in Senegal and enjoyed all of it but will never forget those first impressions of the Gambia. Also had a day in the Doldrums on the way home, a strange and eerie experience even in a motorised vessel.
It's high enough already. Does seem to me to be a waste, having expensive tankers sat around idle all weekend but I do like the French system of freight free Sundays on the roads and those trucks also need maintenance.
In Belgium we had a contract and they came at regular intervals and kept us topped up for a monthly standing order fee. Doesn't seem to happen here but maybe worth exploring with UK companies.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
thaks Dove, will keep that info. A few years ago, Hubby mentioned cruise, would have to be an outside cabin, am very claustrophobic, also get very sea sick. he assured me the stabalisers on the big ships counteract this, I watched a documentary a few years ago, and the folk DID get seasick on these huge vessels. Well, we live 10 mintues from the beach and sea, (he has agoraphobia, not been too bad of late) dogs and the big garden, not practical to go away anywhere.
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Now I'm content with just travelling the UK we have so much to see from snow caped mountains to empty sandy beaches what more could you wish for, OK its not always hot sunshine but I don't want that anymore when it does shine I look for cool shade these days.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
I remember in 1963 I belonged to the young liberals and we all went off for a weekend to butlins at Bognor, the chalets were still like army barracks, I don’t think they’d ever done any renovations since the war, or ever even, but the worse thing was that at the crack of dawn a speaker in every chalet played Zip a Dee Doo Dah that was soon dismantled! .
A relation of OH came back from cruise with Legionares disease!
" delivery will be any time between now and the 15th"
"really? maybe send your driver out longer days and on Sundays?"
" they can't work Sundays as they'd be over their working hours"
" employ more drivers?????? I deliver for Waitrose every Sunday ,as do 7 of my colleagues"
I wonder if the concept of " service industry " applies these days.
The Big Pony by Ralph Lauren💩 snigger snigger
I think Taco’s in the lorry was the best thing ever, coming from a lorry driving family, my dad would drive for silly, silly hours to get to destinations and come home absolutely knackered.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In Belgium we had a contract and they came at regular intervals and kept us topped up for a monthly standing order fee. Doesn't seem to happen here but maybe worth exploring with UK companies.