lunar eclipse

Saturday 3rd March 2007

4:40 p.m. CET Wednesday and Thursday night again were both very quiet, although there were people in both nights who were attentive and made requests. Last night was quite busy being a Friday-night sailing from Hull, and despite one rather rowdy group being in for most of the evening, it went well and there were several couples and groups who stayed until the end, and I had two encores. I also had several requests, including one for Jessie Paints A Picture by Josh Kadison which I didn’t have with me so I am going to play it this evening (and coincidentally I was already in the process of learning). Many of the people who were on last night will be doing the return trip tonight, which is always good as I can be almost guaranteed a receptive audience.

On Thursday I took a walk with Dale, Sapphire and Malcolm (who is covering for Kieran at the moment) to a small harbour down the road, it was nice and sunny although a little cold and very windy. I took some pictures which I have uploaded to my web space; here is one of the best ones.



Fortunately there have been no more recurrences of Tuesday night’s roughness, although I did get woken up early this morning by things falling off the desk due to the ship rocking wildly!

Sunday 4th March 2007

11:40 a.m. GMT Last night went well, with most of the people who had been in the night before materialising at various points. I played Jessie which went down well, and during the last set I did a bit of a 90’s medley, playing tunes by Radiohead, Oasis, and Take That. Did America by Razorlight which went very down well, especially with a group of young people who were sat nearby who I had got chatting to. Had plenty of words of thanks and praise afterwards, was another very enjoyable night.

There was an eclipse of the moon last night (at midnight rather conveniently!) so I stood out on deck after I had finished and observed for a bit. Fortunately the sky was cloudless and I was able to see really clearly. Later on after the eclipse had finished I went out on deck and the moon was shining really brightly, so much so that I could make out a bit of the landscape of the coast on the horizon.