Good morning Friday

[JoM]

Jen, we should’ve been in the air somewhere over the North Atlantic now Virgin only cancelled it all two weeks ago and sent an email last week with a voucher attached but there was also an option to select a refund which I did but apparently now I have to wait for a phone call, in which they’ll probably try to persuade me to rebook. Our friends were due to go to New York with them in April and it took 30 days for Virgin to call them and they’ve still not got their refund. Virgin are currently estimating between 45 and 90 days from when they call but could be longer.

Joe was booked with Jet2 and his refund was back in his account within a couple of weeks of his holiday being cancelled.

[TheOstrich]

Good afternoon, all. Sunny intervals and a bit breezy here; I don't think we got any of the light rain which was forecast for around dawn, which is a bit of a blow.

Adverntures in Shopping Part 87 - emboldened by her first trip out for a long time yesterday afternoon, Mrs O insisted in making a second visit to Waitrose yesterday evening! Again it was very quiet, I just sat in the car and left her to it, and she eventually emerged with a pair of red geraniums for our garden pots! She was able to use contactless, which is no bad thing, I guess, because if you don't use your cards all that often, the banks have a propensity to make you revert to using your pin.

This afternoon, I decided to walk into town and visit the independent butchers. Most of the High Street is closed for business, only the banks, the GPO, the local café and interestingly the dry cleaners were open on the main drag,. Still quite a few folks around though. I managed to source 6 pork chops and 6 chicken breasts which we use for our Sunday lunch (£23), and they did accept contactless - I've only paid in cash there before. The butcher said that business was currently pretty good, which is nice - they're always popular for barbecues.

I then braved the Polish Delicatessen next door, not a place I normally frequent! They have been advertising on the town's FB page that they have a wide variety of fresh fruit and veg, and I was after eating apples. I managed to get 4 red ones of an indeterminate variety, and then marveled at all the other strange stuff on sale, like tins of "Turikrapiczykiwicz" or similar , which could have been Duck in Orange for all I knew, but applying lateral thinking based on the tin size, was probably canned tuna. Anyway, all very pleasant and efficient and they were happy to accept cash.

Anyway, I cannot linger. Somewhere in the house, if I can discover where Mrs O has hidden it, there is a large Polish sausage of indefinable fieryness with my name on it .....

Have a good day, all!

[Gal2]

Afternoon everyone! Hope everyone is well, Osc hope your appointment was ok, glad to hear Fraggle is feeling better Kaz x

So - we had a visit this morning - a planned one - from Tom, Amy's boyfriend. He came to ask my Tom if he could ask Amy to marry him!! How sweet....I still maintain he is too good for her, but he says he wants to be with her as he has never felt this way abut anyone before and had planned to ask her when they went to Vegas in August, but that isn't happening now so he's bringing it forward a bit - we both think the world of him and my Tom couldn't be happier. Tom has to ask her yet (but I'm sure she must have an idea!!).

After this, my Tom and I had a drive out to Penshaw Monument - it's a 30 minute drive from us but we've never actually stopped the car and gone up the hill - it's an awesome spectacle, visible for miles round, and you can see for miles from it!! Usually a nice café and garden centre next door, you can still buy a coffee and sit on a park bench outside but the wind put paid to that idea! We did buy the drinks, but had them in the car.

Enjoy the rest of Friday xx

[saundra]

ho dear shearing s and national holiday
Have gone into receivership
Loved there holidays in the past so sad