What are you all up to

We can now see over the front of house hedge,and Rosa a bit upset because the shrubs in the rear do not now give so much shade from the sun,

Have been to chemist  this morning for now due repeat prescription only to find they also had the last two repeats  May and June although i had already had enough prescribed previously for are last trip away

One of our hedges got  a haircut the other day, nice to see the view and sunsets again.

Very warm here, will have to get on with it now as have avoided being outside, a pile of washing awaits, at least it will dry quickly.

Hope all the holidays and plans are going well, we are home birds for a few weeks. 

So we are unlikely to do any more ocean cruises, but we are going on a river cruise to the Douro in September and are really looking forward to that. 

Mrs WN and MiL went on this cruise last year with Riviera and thoroughly enjoyed it. Not for me though. I don't have a problem with motion sickness but know that some people can be affected even when it's totally calm. MiL didn't like the voyage aspect when they went to Norway and much prefers the river cruises.

My daughter got sea sick on Tower pier on the Thames before even the Ferry arrives

I'm probably one of those strange people who likes being at sea as it's an enforced rest, some holidays can be too much of a marathon. See the continent or bust! 

However ask me that again later if we ever hit a force 10!! (Actually we did hit a storm in the channel once, I was forced to look at the sea due to everyone being ill around me, those waves were big!)

Brother used to be in the Royal Navy. He said he only ever had problems when he ended up back on dry land especially after a long time at sea. It usually lasted for the first hour or so.

No cruise for me thanks, going green just thinking about it! Everyone I know who has cruised raves about it but I'm not tempted one iota.

We took the ferry from Harwich to Esbjerg it appeared huge at the dockside, felt very tiny in the middle of the North Sea and even smaller in a force 4 coming back, at least it had been calm going out, but I could feel the waves hitting from different directions even then 😔 NEVER EVER EVER again.

Mrs One  always ask how I can sleep in rough weather on ferries and the answer is simple, years of being in the military teaches you to sleep any time any where.

I would like to say try one of these as a safer bet but a friend of ours was sea sick on one off the beach in Malta...

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It’s worth pointing out that most, if not all cruise ships have stabilisers. We’ve only ever experienced rough weather once, and only once during that time did we feel any significant motion.