greenlane

Sorry, still haven't got the hang of this! My last reply was to Fulwood, re. Dublin Airport!

Jerseygirl

When replying to a post...hit the blue 'Quote' tab bottom right of said post.

dunroving

If you hit the "Quote" button in the post you're responding to, the post will appear in your message and it all becomes clearer.

Don't apologize, some people have posted 1,000's of times and still don't use the "quote" button (or the multiquote function).

Of course, we have no idea who they are talking to but that's their problem.

greenlane

Aha! I think I've got it, by jove I've got it (...have I? Hope so!). Thank you very much for your help, Jerseygirl.

Jerseygirl

Yay!!

greenlane

And thanks to you, too, Dunroving! Did you enjoy your visit to the Niagara region? A little bit of wine tasting, perhaps?

greenlane

Yes!

fulwood

Blackpool airport is small but very close to Preston. I flew on a propeller plane which never knew still existed. It took longer to get our luggage than the flight was! The luggage as it came on carousel - well the door that allows suitcases to be moved onto carousel - well the door had to be hand cranked. step back in time but made it much easier for my friends to pick me up.

greenlane

I didn't know propeller planes are still around, either. That mechanism for the door is probably more reliable than some of the automated carousels! We had to wait for about two hours at Amsterdam airport about 12 years ago because there was an almighty problem with the conveyor belts.....resulting in lots of unhappy and tired passengers. I like small airports too, for the easiness of getting in and out of them.

between two worlds

Hah don't mention baggage conveyors etc to me! Have just arrived back in US--left from Heathrow's spiffy new terminal 2--very elegant and streamlined-except that, just our luck, the baggage conveyor/sorter broke, and our bags never got on the plane!! They are stuck at Heathrow with 2,000 others.

We are so lucky to be coming back to our own place, where we have left some clothes! Others must be having to go shopping etc. But still...no word yet of when it will turn up.

Otherwise, it's nice to be back in our small town in North-east PA --familiar places, faces etc--but I am not regretting our move back to being based in UK...

between two worlds

And welcome, greenlane! lovely to have you here.

greenlane

Thank you ... Lovely to be here! For many years I was unable to talk to anyone here (in Canada) of my homesickness (they wouldn't have understood and also I didn't want to 'diss' their country), and if I, rarely, mentioned it to people at home in the UK they would say, oh you're so lucky, Britain is not like it used to be, etc., etc. Then I found this website and bingo, and realised that I wasn't the only one feeling as I did.

You mentioned the new terminal building at Heathrow (officially known as "The Queen's Terminal" - have to be careful which word to put the emphasis on!...), saw that the Queen opened it today, presumably en route to her visit to Belfast. That was too bad that you experienced the hiccup with the baggage - hope you are reunited with yours soon. Great, though, that you don't have to go and buy emergency clothes, etc.

Jerseygirl

Welcome.

There are plenty of like minded people here...so rant away if you wish.

greenlane

Thank you!

jasper123

Yes I know what you mean,
My Uncle Paddy was for decades the chief of police in Calcutta India, he spent a huge part of his life there in the British rule era and through the second world war years, and when he retired ---- I think it was around the mid 1950's he returned to England to live out the remainder of his life, he immediately bought a bungalow in a village not far from where I live called Catherington, a big place with a lot of land, he bought it for cash so I guess he had a few Bob!!!! but anyway I remember visiting him with my Sister and Mum & Dad shortly after he moved in to his new bungalow, I was around 10 at the time, and he reached into his pocket and brought out (two) 10 shilling notes and gave one to me and one to my Sister, our eyes lit up like the stars in the sky, funny how when your a child there are certain things and moments that you never forget, I can remember at that time I had never seen a 10 shilling note before, let alone a pound note!!!!! ----- to me 10 shillings was a huge amount of money, ---- and way back then it indeed was, I used to get a shilling a week pocket money, but that was only when Mum & Dad could afford it, other times it would be sixpence or nothing at all, ---- its true that way back then to most ordinary hard working people life was really hard, but somehow families struggled through, and most of the time the parents would make sure there was enough food on the table ---- if not for them at least for there kids!!! how amazing and resilient people back then were, I take my hat off to all of them!!!! no matter how hard life got they just got on with it!!!!

Greenlane --- a big welcome to our thread, we are a happy lot, and we not only give advice and info to people, but we really support each other in our low times and our high times, no matter what you want to talk about you will always find someone on this thread that will be only too happy to reply to you, ----- I always say that most general info or answers to certain specific or tech help can be easily found on google these days, --- but we on here also have more in depth knowledge about certain things from our own personel experiences, and so we all seem to have built a closeness to each other over the years, but we were all new on here once!!!