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260 of my comments have received 306 Great Feedback votes

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I'll give cruises a wide berth thank you

Posted on Mon, 11 May 2026

Yep, just like I've always imagined it Jane.

Cruises always make me think of two quotes :

'Cruise ships are floating Petri dishes' - don't know who said that, but it's very apposite right now

'Hell is other people' - Jean...

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Posted in Life on Berth

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This is wonderful Vera. So

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2026

This is wonderful Vera. So expressive and atmospheric. Have you ever read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ? I think you would enjoy it.

My last one left his slow cooker behind. It is absolutely wonderful and a lot more use than...

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Posted in Ghosted: A Meteorology

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The former Kidlington Airport

Posted on Thu, 07 May 2026

The former Kidlington Airport is now known as London Oxford Airport. I'm sure you're absolutely right that soon we will have London Inverness Airport, London Reykjavík Airport etc

I'm glad you have peace in your skies, but we certainly...

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Posted in Teeth of Many Colours

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Can't can't

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026

Thank you Turlough but I think that would just prove to those around me that I was completely bonkers !

And yet again you have educated me, I didn't know Offenbach wrote the can-can. I thought it was Toulouse Lautrec.

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Posted in Out in the Styx

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Wow Claudine is that a thing

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026

Wow Claudine is that a thing ? People not doing acts of kindness out of actual kindness, but in order to get ticks or likes or whatever it is ? That strikes me as really sad.

However, I can see your point, and I shall take it as...

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I love your diary Turlough

Posted on Wed, 06 May 2026

I love your diary Turlough and I really look forward to it !

Just a teensy point. In the last entry I think Madame P has lost a friend. As in "Priyatelkata’s father-in-law’s burnt remains". I think it was her friend's father in law....

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Posted in T-Cut on the A-Bomb

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Such an optimistic time too,

Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026

Such an optimistic time too, the 1960's. The Second World War was over, living standards were shooting up. We had a television (black and white of course) and then a car and then a fridge. That seems a strange order of priority, but I think...

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Posted in Tom All Alone 14 (ii)

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Signs of the Times

Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026

Nice to see Tom back !

I used to love the smell of Lux soap, especially when you took the paper wrapper off. And the shape of it was very ergonomic (not that I would have know that word then of course). It was so smooth and just fitted ...

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Posted in Tom All Alone 14 (ii)

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