Virtual cruise Lyon to Avignon and Arles

CaravanSerai

IRL, I recycle broken costume jewellery into arts and crafts projects or pass it on to others who do similar stuff. Not sure what my décolletage is any good for any more other than resting a cup of tea on.

Good heavens a cup,of tea ? Mine would just about support an egg cup…

ixion

Has anyone thought, not of lectures, but of crafting activities ?

CS could kick off (as it were).

Back later - this will give you all a chance to check my spelling and grammar?

Not me …. I’m only mentally crafty, otherwise am cack handed.

Ooh -a cup of tea would go down a treat - if there’s none available a small Ricard might do.

I posted about craft work, the post is at the end of page 18.

And some canapés comme amuse-bouche.

By the way I hope there are no silly rules about having to sit at a particular table ? We had a river cruise ruined by having to have all meals with the people we randomly sat next to on night one. They were not our tasse de thé and probably it was mutual

I assume it’s all Libertè Egalité but maybe not Fraternité sur notre bateau ?

Sometimes I like to have something to do with my hands - sitting on them for too long becomes a tad tedious.

You can have a good old-fashioned natter over your st**ch and b**ch knit and matter sessions.

Lucca

By the way I hope there are no silly rules about having to sit at a particular table ? We had a river cruise ruined by having to have all meals with the people we randomly sat next to on night one. They were not our tasse de thé and probably it was mutual

I assume it’s all Libertè Egalité but maybe not Fraternité sur notre bateau ?

You should have come on board earlier, Lucca.
You could teach us armchair travellers a little about cruise etiquette

Lord knows, some of us need it?

I wouldn’t worry Lucca - one thing we do not have on this cruise is rules - largely because nobody takes any bleedin’ notice anyway!

Lucca I can support a large mug. So there!

HF Holidays Country Houses have been my favourite for seating. One sitting for dinner, fixed time. As you enter the dining room you fill up one table before starting to fill the next if that makes sense. Tables have usually seated eight. Most people are there solo or in twos so you end up sitting with different people each evening. And as there are often two or three different holidays taking place: walking, day tours by coach, in-house special interests, singing, painting etc you get to meet lots of interesting people as well as the ones you are sharing the daytime with.

Fixed seating arrangements seem to hark back to 1970s package holidays where you often got lumbered with some shockingly awful people for a fortnight. Although maybe they felt the same about us! They say there's always one. And if you can't spot them then it may be you!

stardreamer as one who has only recently figured out how to post photos I think I’ll stick to making things with sticky back plastic thanks. ?

I thought this had become a ladies only cruise, hence my return.

O Captain! my Captain! our cruise is not yet done,
The ship has weather’d storms and worse , the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bilges clear but now before my eyes
Oh WTF, whose fault is this? What mess before me lies?
The bleeding drops of red and pink and white all there within my sight
Where on the deck my Captain lies, with glass in hand
And silly smile upon her face- been there since last night.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—the sea bass waits, the salad’s mixed — the crew are nigh revolting
Oh but they were always thus, twas my mistake, just the lettuce it is bolting.
We’ve drinks to drink, and reels to dance and parties all a-flinging
So let’s get rid of boring stuff and get on with the singing.

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here"

MawtheMerrier

O Captain! my Captain! our cruise is not yet done,
The ship has weather’d storms and worse , the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bilges clear but now before my eyes
Oh WTF, whose fault is this? What mess before me lies?
The bleeding drops of red and pink and white all there within my sight
Where on the deck my Captain lies, with glass in hand
And silly smile upon her face- been there since last night.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—the sea bass waits, the salad’s mixed — the crew are nigh revolting
Oh but they were always thus, twas my mistake, just the lettuce it is bolting.
We’ve drinks to drink, and reels to dance and parties all a-flinging
So let’s get rid of boring stuff and get on with the singing.

Well, I must say that's a vast improvement on your 'The boy stood on the burning deck' offering previously?

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When I asked backalong for competition I didn't expect Wally to turn up. I must say his language has deteriotated. As Mrs Doyle would say to Father Ted: The bad F word. Fish!

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Come on! Own up! Who's duct-taped Rick Bland to a chair?

Practice run.

Germanshepherdsmum

Practice run.

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Doodle

stardreamer as one who has only recently figured out how to post photos I think I’ll stick to making things with sticky back plastic thanks. ?

I am happy to try to help you to use the Paint program if you would like to try.

Germanshepherdsmum

Practice run.

That is very funny. I'll hold the scissors.

Will it be like the escapologist chappie who used to perform outside the Tower of London in the 1950s?

Get him trussed up, suspend him by his ankles from a great height (overboard, même?) and time him to escape within 90 seconds?

Was that Tony Curtis? If it was him in his heyday I'd be tying him up for entirely different reasons.