deja vu

Friday 23rd May 2008

11:00 p.m. BST Last night went fairly well, the bar was busy all evening, and there was a group of blokes sat by the piano for most of the evening requesting loads of songs, some of which I don’t play very often, such as Baker Street and Englishman In New York which both got an airing and went down very well.

This evening was busy again, but wasn’t quite as cohesive as the night before. Nevertheless I still had plenty of requests, so much so that I ended up not playing half of the songs that I had picked out beforehand! Among them was Blue Moon, which I hadn’t played for a while.

Today I went for a walk down to the sea-front and back with Amy (the new children’s entertainer). Originally a larger group of us were due to be going to Knokke to see what it was like as none of us had been, but the weather turned on us slightly and we ran out of time. We may go on Sunday instead.

This evening I saw two familiar objects that I had seen before during my travels. Firstly the same crane-boat as I featured in this blog post almost a year ago when I was working on the Pride of Rotterdam, which I spotted when we were already quite a way out to sea while I was on my break, then when I was in the middle of my second set, I saw a clipper similar to the one I saw back in September ’06 (only a couple of months after starting on here, although back then I incorrectly referred to it as a schooner) only tonight’s one was quite a bit bigger. Predictably, it was too far behind us by the time my break came, so again no photo opportunity! Coincidentally, this blog post also refers to the only time on this ship, apart from the other night, when I could remember it being quiet enough for me to skip my last set.