8th November - We are sailing, we are sailing etc

Well for the next five days we shall be sailing across the North Atlantic Ocean no doubt trying to dodge the various weather fronts.

It’s strange that when we are walking around the deck we like to go clockwise but everybody else goes the other way round, cannot fathom this out at all.

We missed the Doctors presentation about losing weight by hypnotherapy and also acupuncture as there were so many large people there we could not get in the room.

On Monday night we went to the evening show where a young lass, from Yorkshire, called Claire Maidin who, we understand, had appeared in the X-Factor and also Britain’s got some talent, or something like that, we both agreed she was very good indeed. She has a strong voice and was excellent at the piano and gave a very good performance indeed.

Monday night was also dress up night and so many ladies went to great trouble to look nice but the male of the species did not try so hard and in fact perhaps wore a better and new set of jeans and trainers. The wind has started getting a little stronger and the waves are about 3.5 metres high at the moment although against the size of this ship you hardly notice them at all whilst the ships speed is around 19 knots.