Dining companions

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Re: Dining companions

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Meg 50 wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 08:47
Manoverboard wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 18:07
Meg 50 wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 18:03
do we HAVE TO include forum members?

do they have to be alive?

can they be fictitious?
If you have a spade and a wheel barrow to get them to the table, formally dressed of course .... :tired:
ha ha - what I was wondering was could you have a table including Harry Potter and William Shakespeare?

Not that they would be my choices, but were the first names that sprung to mind
I thought, and had hoped, that would be the case Meg but my concern was that you may have been asking about previous Members who have sadly died. I wouldn't wish to cause offence to Mrs Shiney for example nor indeed to the memory of the single chap who was gay and worked on London's Underground railway. I cannot remember his name right now even though we shared the ' Adonia Naming ' experience.

Can anybody remember his name ?
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Re: Dining companions

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Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:04
Onelife wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 08:52
Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 08:41

Now why didn't I think of that :lol: :clap:
Because OLD age is catching up with you :lol: I've noticed you're a bit slow out of the stalls theses days...just saying ;) :lol:

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As long as he remembers to pull his trousers up there shouldn’t be a problem :thumbup: :lol:

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Re: Dining companions

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Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:05
Can anybody remember his name ?
Billy

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Re: Dining companions

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I thought it was Tiny

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Re: Dining companions

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david63 wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:49
Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:05
Can anybody remember his name ?
Billy
That's the feller :clap:, was ' Billysix ' his Userid ?
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Re: Dining companions

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Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:50
I thought it was Tiny
It's deffo Billy :angel:
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Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:47
That's the feller :clap:, was ' Billysix ' his Userid ?
Billy6 or, at one time, Billy666

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david63 wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:49
Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:47
That's the feller :clap:, was ' Billysix ' his Userid ?
Billy6 or, at one time, Billy666
Spot on again :clap:

He was good fun I remember and was even on t'telly on a program about the London Underground.

Had Meg been able to get him here he could have sat at our table, maybe with the Cerne Abbas Giant.
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Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:48
Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:50
I thought it was Tiny
It's deffo Billy :angel:
No mates.....just as I thought ;)

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Re: Dining companions

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Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 12:18
Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:48
Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 09:50
I thought it was Tiny
It's deffo Billy :angel:
No mates.....just as I thought ;)
On the other hand it could have been Tiny but as I didn't see it I couldn't say :silent:
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Re: Dining companions

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Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 13:43
Stephen wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 12:18
Manoverboard wrote: 30 Jun 2020, 10:48

It's deffo Billy :angel:
No mates.....just as I thought ;)
On the other hand it could have been Tiny but as I didn't see it I couldn't say :silent:
Which explains why Stephen knew it was Tiny :thumbup: :D

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Re: Dining companions

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We always ask to be seated on a table for 8 and usually find something to converse about over dinner, It should be obvious that as the other six diners have also chosen the same format for dinner, it's likely that they are outgoing by nature and actively seek new acquaintances, It helps if we all share a common love of good food and wine, because, hopefully, that's what we are going to enjoy every evening. Am I displaying a wistful longing to be at sea again? we should have been sailing to the Baltic in 26 days, but now it's the Aegean and Adriatic next May and that seems a long way off!

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Re: Dining companions

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I wonder what the new social distancing arrangements will do to the table numbers, and whether Freedom dining will still exist. I read somewhere that one of the lines was proposing only fixed dining times, and smaller table numbers.
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Re: Dining companions

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Had a chat with chums from Poole yesterday and they explained that their ferry journey from Poole to France is booked but that everybody who was able to book could only do so if they agreed to book a cabin and stop in it for the entire crossing and also to take any food and beverages that might be required.

Perhaps P&O will follow suit on their cruises :relaxed:
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Re: Dining companions

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P and O have cut down on everything else so who knows... microwave in every cabin, trip to supermarket on the way... could you imagine it lol 🤪
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jacksparrow wrote: 01 Jul 2020, 13:02
P and O have cut down on everything else so who knows... microwave in every cabin, trip to supermarket on the way... could you imagine it lol 🤪
Yes, but only if it's an en-suite cabin ... :(
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