We have been on quite a few cruises but never on a ship that big. That can fit the population of our town plus the next village before you even start counting the crew. We generally have a week in the Med and I've loved every minute. Every morning you wake to a different port often in a different country. The ships we sail on don't have extravagant decor but are relaxed and friendly. You can always find a quiet corner if that's what you feel like doing. The only compulsory activity is the lifeboat drill.
Glad you're enjoying your garden visiting MrsG. You will soon have all the inspiration you can cope with.
Not been a bad day here weather wise apart from a torrential downpour of rain and hail. I had to sit in the car outside my front door for ten minutes or I would have got soaked trying to cover the ten feet.
Glad you kept that hail Lesley...us 'western side' folk got the good stuff....
Kept thinking - I could have walked today, but the forecast wasn't brilliant for hills, so I've got a good bit done outside instead. A lot to do - mainly earth moving, and not in a good way. Bit at a time.
Steve...good to see you. We miss your double entendres and saucy chat!
Dinner soon - very late for me but i'm a bit behind'like the coo's tail' today. Wallander at 9pm - Kenneth Branagh version. Not quite as good as the 2nd, and definitive, Swedish one, but he's very handsome these days....
I forgot about Chelsea. Hey ho.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm in the "avoid the cruise like the plague" camp. Though we did spend a night and a day with our children on the Hurtigruten, the Norwegian coastal steamer, in 1996 - a very small, basic boat, and quite delightful.
We went to Nostell Priory in April, Mrs Garden. Lovely walks round the lakes, through the woods. An interesting selection of rhubarb varieties in the walled garden too. :-)
(Had to revert to hand-crafted smiley there. Where have they gone??)
It rained just as I'd got the washing in (hooray!) but before I'd cut the grass (boo!). Ah well...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
A good day spent in the garden .... well, most of it anyway. Shed moved, new compost area set up and started, broccoli pulled up, tomatoes potted on and some general tidying done. Later on this afternoon I drove out to a friend who lives near the coast with my surplus tomato plants - she's going to have some for herself and sell the rest for the Cats Protection League. She gave me a couple of her tom plants, some courgettes, basil seedlings and some of Sarah Ravens red amaranthus. I forgot to take her my excess Pattypan squash plants and some old duvets (for the rescued cats) so another trip will have to be made unless she has time to venture out this way.
We spent a good couple of hours eating home made fruit cake, drinking coffee and trying to put he world to rights. You'll all be relieved to know we've managed it
While I was away OH dug over the new peninsula bed and removed tree roots, clumps of grass and other 'stuff'. It'll soon be ready to plant
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all , bit worn out spent day at allotment , lots done
Had all sorts of Holidays over the years and enjoyed them all
At moment doing lots of cruises , infact next month round Portugal and Spain , about 900 passengers , prefer the smaller ships , personally find it quite relaxing and as we sail from UK no air ports problems but cruising is not for everybody
Just back from my Running Club trip to the Millau Viaduct, biggest one in Europe and designed by Lord Norman Foster - wish he hadn't built it quite so high. We had to run up to it from the town and then across and and back again (maybe he shouldn't have made it so long either), I suppose that wouldn't have worked so well though. Anyway, 23.2 kms later I felt very proud (and relieved when I reached the finishing line. Fabulous support for the 15,000 runners and an awful lot of volunteers making sure we enjoyed the day.
Glad to see most of you had a fabulous week-end too (sorry too tired to read back too far, I think I will sleep especially well tonight.
Good night All.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
DD, well done! I've seen that bridge on TV. Fantastic.
Hello everyone. Hubby has gone to town, so I've snuggled down under the bedclothes for a very lazy read. I was planning on washing sheets and airing other bedding today, but I've woken to threatening dark clouds, so that won't happen after all.
By my reckoning, you are probably all waking up now. So, hello to the early birds.
its blowing a gale here and all the clouds disappeared just after I decided not to wash the sheets - typical. Still, they would have been wrapped all around the clothes line anyway, so it's just as well I decided not to do it.
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We have been on quite a few cruises but never on a ship that big. That can fit the population of our town plus the next village before you even start counting the crew. We generally have a week in the Med and I've loved every minute
. Every morning you wake to a different port often in a different country. The ships we sail on don't have extravagant decor but are relaxed and friendly. You can always find a quiet corner if that's what you feel like doing. The only compulsory activity is the lifeboat drill
.
Glad you're enjoying your garden visiting MrsG. You will soon have all the inspiration you can cope with
.
Not been a bad day here weather wise apart from a torrential downpour of rain and hail. I had to sit in the car outside my front door for ten minutes or I would have got soaked trying to cover the ten feet.
Have a good evening
Glad you kept that hail Lesley...us 'western side' folk got the good stuff....
Kept thinking - I could have walked today, but the forecast wasn't brilliant for hills, so I've got a good bit done outside instead. A lot to do - mainly earth moving, and not in a good way. Bit at a time.
Steve...good to see you. We miss your double entendres and saucy chat!
Dinner soon - very late for me but i'm a bit behind'like the coo's tail' today. Wallander at 9pm - Kenneth Branagh version. Not quite as good as the 2nd, and definitive, Swedish one, but he's very handsome these days....
I forgot about Chelsea. Hey ho.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Evening all!
I'm in the "avoid the cruise like the plague" camp. Though we did spend a night and a day with our children on the Hurtigruten, the Norwegian coastal steamer, in 1996 - a very small, basic boat, and quite delightful.
We went to Nostell Priory in April, Mrs Garden. Lovely walks round the lakes, through the woods. An interesting selection of rhubarb varieties in the walled garden too. :-)
(Had to revert to hand-crafted smiley there. Where have they gone??)
It rained just as I'd got the washing in (hooray!) but before I'd cut the grass (boo!). Ah well...
A good day spent in the garden .... well, most of it anyway. Shed moved, new compost area set up and started, broccoli pulled up, tomatoes potted on and some general tidying done. Later on this afternoon I drove out to a friend who lives near the coast with my surplus tomato plants - she's going to have some for herself and sell the rest for the Cats Protection League. She gave me a couple of her tom plants, some courgettes, basil seedlings and some of Sarah Ravens red amaranthus. I forgot to take her my excess Pattypan squash plants and some old duvets (for the rescued cats) so another trip will have to be made unless she has time to venture out this way.
We spent a good couple of hours eating home made fruit cake, drinking coffee and trying to put he world to rights. You'll all be relieved to know we've managed it
While I was away OH dug over the new peninsula bed and removed tree roots, clumps of grass and other 'stuff'. It'll soon be ready to plant
Last edited: 22 May 2016 20:08:45
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all , bit worn out spent day at allotment , lots done
Had all sorts of Holidays over the years and enjoyed them all
At moment doing lots of cruises , infact next month round Portugal and Spain , about 900 passengers , prefer the smaller ships , personally find it quite relaxing and as we sail from UK no air ports problems but cruising is not for everybody
going to watch Wallader and have a drink
recorded Chelsea
Hope alls well with everybody
Evening All,
Just back from my Running Club trip to the Millau Viaduct, biggest one in Europe and designed by Lord Norman Foster - wish he hadn't built it quite so high.
We had to run up to it from the town and then across and and back again (maybe he shouldn't have made it so long either), I suppose that wouldn't have worked so well though. 
Anyway, 23.2 kms later I felt very proud (and relieved when I reached the finishing line. 
Fabulous support for the 15,000 runners and an awful lot of volunteers making sure we enjoyed the day. 
Glad to see most of you had a fabulous week-end too (sorry too tired to read back too far, I think I will sleep especially well tonight.
Good night All.
Ooh, sorry, those pictures look a bit over sized.
Congratulations, DD! I think I'd have got vertigo... assuming I could run that far, which is unlikely
DD, well done! I've seen that bridge on TV. Fantastic.
Hello everyone. Hubby has gone to town, so I've snuggled down under the bedclothes for a very lazy read. I was planning on washing sheets and airing other bedding today, but I've woken to threatening dark clouds, so that won't happen after all.
Hope you all have a good sleep.
By my reckoning, you are probably all waking up now. So, hello to the early birds.
its blowing a gale here and all the clouds disappeared just after I decided not to wash the sheets - typical. Still, they would have been wrapped all around the clothes line anyway, so it's just as well I decided not to do it.