What are you all up to
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Things should pick up ,after people come out of 'hibernation' and start to sort out touring and holidays H.D.Miserable morning here in East Kent,drizzle & wind from the South.Won't be doing much today at the B/Yd.
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Its very easy to use CY. It is organised into sections if that is what you want. Otherwise you get a list of the threads that are active on any particular day if you want to follow or comment on them. Nice friendly crowd.
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Sounds like you are enjoying volunteering in the visitor centre Millie. We are hoping to get away towards the end of the month, Ferry Meadows site looks like a possibility at the moment.
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I can't see what everyone is having problems with, apart from being slightly slower, I have found CT ok.The CL search however is not as good, and lots of problems with reviews etc. Have managed to use it well enough to enable me to book a couple for our summer holidays though.
I don't tend to use forums that much, but have taken a general look at some others and haven't been that impressed with any of them.
I don't think everyone "jumping ship" is going make things improve any quicker.Perhaps my son who has just got a job with the co-op bank digital team to make their website easier to navigate and use should have applied to work for the CC! 
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Without CT I expect problems with the new web site would have emerged much more slowly. But until the CL and rally section are improved and even the poor old story section gets a look in (so much lost on there!) It won't get my seal of approval. But this isn't a comparison with other forums because it's the main CC web site that needs sorting and CT appears to be running OK for many of us.
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But this isn't a comparison with other forums because it's the main CC web site that needs sorting and CT appears to be running OK for many of us.
Exactly, sort out what matters first and although this Forum is integrated I'm happy to muddle along with it alongside the others I share time with
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Thank you so much for this post it made me laugh out loud, as did my husband when I read it out to him. It's really brightened my day. Just feeling a little blue today, no idea why apart from grey and raining weather and things that need to be sorted but not in the to mood to do 🙄.
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The day started out dull, but the sun has finally broken through the clouds, I'm feeling warmer already.
Had a good sleep last night, but still not totally recovered from 18 hours of rattling on UK roads! If I was having to make this trip again, I would spend the day in London and book a bunk each way. However, it was an interesting experience. Never seen such a small toilet compartment anywhere before!
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Might it have been more comfortable if you had gone by train?
David
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Oh dear that has caused a bit of a distraction. First of all I looked up the Caledonian Sleeper and started touring Scotland. Then somehow I linked up with the Orient Express and the trips were getting increasingly expensive and at that point the mega bus went out of the window, definitely don't fancy those bunks!!
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Interesting day as our "dealer
" had also contacted manufacturer about our seats ,and given them a lot of duff info,which we found out about when manufacturer contacted us with a request to speak to them as they were "confused",now sorted new seats coming ,(now next week),and dealer has been bypassed,so it does make one wonder what some dealers know about the product they sell?0 -
They are actually surprisingly comfortable, brue, and I am one of those people who can sleep anywhere. I grew up on our family fishing boat, sleeping in a bunk next to the engine room, it's the warmest bunk and you soon get used to the constant engine noise.
The seats on the return journey were also comfortable, but the trip was much longer with stops and delays, and I felt the rattling from the road much more.
I would do the "bunk trip" again, but the daytime journey was tedious.
Luckily I will not have to go through all this for another 10 years anyway!
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Hi David, I'm a bit late catching up. The hospital visit went ok but I'll have to go again in November roughly 12 months after the operation. The surgeon showed me both before and after X-rays. The before one showed bone on bone on one side of the femur and the tibia, the after one was interesting showing the metalwork in place. Apparently I've been overdoing the walking a bit, I was doing up to 2.5 to 3 miles, he said I shouldn't push too hard. So back to shorter walks for now. Today for the first time I tried not taking any pain killers, that was a bit of a shock to the system but I've persevered.
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If you can walk up to three miles you seem to be doing very well. It takes a while for everything to knit into place around the new knee. I assume you have been having regular physio since the operation. They are the ones that encourage you to get moving. For about three months I have not been taking regular pain relief I tend to reserve that for when I have a bad day or when I know I am going to put a lot of strain on it. I suppose its only when you stop taking the pain killers that you will truely know how much pain you are suffering or hopefully not suffering!!! I would be interested to hear you progress over the next few months. Have you got your first trip away planed?
David
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Helen give me a shout if you are coming to Ferry Meadows. Moulesy has my email address.
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I've been doing the exercises that the physiotherapist gave me religiously ever since I came home from hospital. Even over the Christmas period I only missed one session, I was doing six or seven different exercises 10 repetitions 4 time a day. I'm sure that certainly helped. Mind you it was extremely difficult sometimes to motivate myself especially the four weeks that I had that horrible virus that everyone seems to have had. Haven't planned a trip away yet but we tend not to do that until after Easter. I'm confident that I'll be ok going off with van as I was still caravanning last year before I had the operation.
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Noticed what savings can be made, KjellNN but you
really do have to put yourself about a bit though
On the North East News some ultra-with-it football
fan decided to get the cheapest return tickets for
himself & his Lady to go from 'Castle to Oxford for
the Saturday Footy Match. It only took 28 tickets each !
Probably cost him the equivalent of the savings to
placate the Lady
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The last time I had to go to Scotland in a hurry (family funeral) I flew there and back in a day. Probably wouldn't like to do the Glasgow/London flight due to the palaver of getting into central London but those Megabus bunks are for the travel hardy....depends who's opposite. Just how close are you to your fellow bus bunkers?!
Anyway well done KJ, you did it and lived to tell the tale.
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Today is a day for feeling old.
How can I have a 19 year old grandson!
We rushed off to see the newborn, but forgot to take a camera, so had to call in at a service station and buy a disposable one. Here's a photo taken with it - showing the hand knitted Leicester City cardigan.(He's still an avid fan - through thick and thin).
Looking back to when I was 19 it seems a lifetime away. I was engaged and away at college. (We're still together 47 years later!)'
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Our grand-daughter is 21 goldie and I dont admit to being old!! She is footloose and fancy free and having graduated last summer is still considering her options. When I was 21 I was working and engaged to Mr H. Happy birthday to your grandson.
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Will do Millie, it's looking like we will be at ferry meadows, it will make a change, we use to use the site when the boys were younger snd came with us, but not been for a few years .
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No grandchildren yet, but as youngest son seems to be settling down with his girlfriend, you never know.
Not a good day, horrible wet weather and yet more computer problems at work, although nice chap from sage support very helpful and so not as bad as first thought.
Had to fight my way round Aldi, no food in the house!
Farmers market in town tomorrow so will get the rest from there. 1 -
After reading something about someone finding their kindle fine I thought I'd give it a go. Typed great and I was so pleased. Then it went pear shaped and I'm back on my phone. After live chat the other evening was asked to email in with my issues. Must get round to it 😆.
Hope your computer problems are swiftly resolved Helenandtrevor. We had a similar mother hubbard situation earlier this week. I had a decent tesco money off voucher but needed to spent £50 I needn't have worried as I almost doubled that 😃 which is not our normal spend so I think ill be declining the others they sent.
Going back to ages I too was engaged and married in my teens and again in my early twenties 😉 kept this one for 40 years this year, where did that go? But working and mortgage although I was considered older first time mum at 27. Our offspring lead very different lives not always better, just different.
Just watching the Flash advert. Oh boy is that dog like our son's to look at and often referred to a Guinness. I so relate to that advert. Although it takes more if my effort to shift any dirt then appears goes on in the ad 😣.
Been reasonably warm here today but grey. Tomorrow not looking so good.
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