Virtual cruise Lyon to Avignon and Arles

Too late, mate.
Maw's already covered that?

? Arles be seeing you (in all the old familiar places)
? Toulon it’s been nice to know you
?Toulon, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye

On the good ship Lollipop ?

Real Argy spirit! I’m back on board.
My poetry skills are non-existent. I won’t put a dampener on things with The Ancient Mariner (the Admiral?). I’ll put forward whatever version you prefer of The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck (my preferred versions being rather rude and unsuitable for GN?).

Should there be some community singing?

Underneath the arches ??
Sure Le pont d’Avignon
We are sailing
All the nice girls love a sailor
Michel ? Fred ? Row the boat ashore

The Flying Dutchman will hit land again...

⛴⛴⛴⛴⛴⛴
I suspect that ship has sailed….

Mollygo

As we cruised on our merry way
We loved the shore excursions
The pool on deck remained unused
Too chilly for immersions.

But in she plunged
Nevertheless
A catastrophic blunder
Her knitted swimming cossie
Soon exposed all that was under

Wrinkly bosoms shocked poor Eamonn
He fired up his scooter
And skidded down the gangplank
Screaming OMG what hooters!

MawtheMerrier

The grans stood on the burning deck
The captain blew his hooter
When who the heck came on that deck
With their mobility scooter?

OMG
It’s Eamonn Holmes
That bloke from GMB
Who sits reviving aching legs
On afternoon TV

He said I’ve sold those walk-in baths
And chairs like catapults
Those Stannah lifts
And funeral plans
Put money in the vault

But now I’m flogging wheels
Just like an Irish Arthur Daley
It’s those or puffing Wiltshire meals
To keep me out the Bailey

As we cruised on our merry way
We loved the shore excursions
The pool on deck remained unused
Too chilly for immersions.

The grans stood on the burning deck
The captain blew his hooter
When who the heck came on that deck
With their mobility scooter?

Pun and poem alert ...

We need to find some Argy spirit
On this Blighted craft

Doesn’t matter what it is
So long as it is daft

Let’s dive into our wardrobes, girls
And find those platform shoes

We’re going to kick some life into this
Dull and boring cruise

Write on if you dare ...

Erm, I think not, Calli. Did you see the state of them - not what I paid good money for, for this Trip Of A Lifetime.
Makes the Argy's (q.v. passim) look positively palatial.

Why do you think I legged it at the earliest opportunity?

I'm sure my Dad used to have a box of those, CS.
He always used to smoke one at Christmas after toasting the Queen.
Dreadful smell.

ixion

(Whispers) ?
^I've had to Google 'heads', Maw^

?

Have you not had occasion to visit them yet, ixion?

goodness, that girl has a strong bladder

It was indeed a case of FFS (no not that FFS - Fat Finger Syndrome)
I agree sane is the last word that springs to mind
“Frogs - box -mad “rearrange these words

Was it a slip of the French manicured nails to describe:

the sane way we have had virtual Halloween parties

Sane? Here? Mad as a box of Claudia Winklemans.

Not exactly sea sick…
Of course it could be a hangover as the mainbrace is unlikely to recover from the splicing he gave it…

(Whispers) ?
I've had to Google 'heads', Maw

Thank you, Maw

Those dastardly oven chips - beware!

Don't tell me he's seasick on a river after sailing the seven seas?

I think he was also confined to the heads - victim of the curse of the ratatouille and oven chips.
Normal service should be resumed as soon as possible. ?‍☠️

1) It’s not a simulation -however you understand the term. It’s a virtual river cruise in the sane way we have had virtual Halloween parties, or like the Argy
2)You only had to look at the list of Chat threads/topics to find the Argy.

I haven't been enjoying the cruise with you all but your post made me wonder if the Admiral is with you, steering the ship?
I seem to have mislaid him.

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9 Mar 2021 ... Is it possible for us to have a quiet night at the Argy? Just thinking of other Friday's when things got out of hand:

Just tried on iPad and lots of results did come up- annoying how Gransnet behaves differently on different devices.

By the way, SD explained in pre-cruise post that he was not able to go on real life trips, hence the virtual cruise.

Maybe it depends whether you are using phone, tablet or laptop. I tried on my phone, which I usually use to access Gransnet and nothing came up.