winding down

Sunday 26th November 2006

2:06 p.m. CET Had another excellent night last night, even though there were no groups or couples sat piano-side for the evening, which is quite unusual. Had a good mixture of people in and had many requests, so many in fact that my first vocal set lasted an hour. The bar was still busy when I finished at 11:45 (no encores, although in a way I felt that the night had only just got going!)

Mathias came over yesterday afternoon and we were giving each other a hand with some songs. He helped me interpreting the chord progressions in Nat King Cole’s ballad These Foolish Things and the popular classic As Time Goes By, both of which I will shortly be adding to my repertoire after going through a few more times!

I have spent the last hour packing, and in a few minutes I am going to meet Gareth and the guys from the band, and go down to the terminal for a farewell drink.

Monday 27th November 2006

5:08 p.m. I am now back home, and amazed at how quiet it is!

Spent half of yesterday afternoon packing, then the other half at the terminal in Zeebrugge with the rest of the entertainments people, which was a nice low-key affair.

Last night was something of an anticlimax, but it went quite well all the same as there were a few attentive groups.

I have just noticed four unread comments from the last four weeks or so, as I had forgotten that I had turned on comment moderation. I have just published them, thank you to my contributors!

Not sure how long it will be before I am working on a boat again, but I know for a fact that I could do with at least a couple of weeks’ break.