At Sea - 20 February
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:16 pm
The following morning the ship’s company were exercised in a security drill, which included some passenger participation. Basically they had hidden several fake bombs around the ship including a couple in passenger cabins. The idea was to find them in the shortest amount of time. It was just as well they didn’t put one in my room, as it would have taken them three hours to search through all my stuff. My cabin has got considerably smaller as the weeks have gone on.
We have also been advised that Japan prohibits the use of the ship’s Internet facilities while in Japanese waters and there will be no signal. I’ve never heard of such a thing but then again tomorrow, when going ashore in Xingang, as well as all the paperwork we have to produce and the sniffer dogs on patrol, we are going to be subjected to a temperature test by means of a scanner, although we haven’t been told why.
I’m excited, as there is a drama workshop at 2.00pm, which means I can just sneak that in before my talk at 4.15pm. It should be a lot of fun and I’ll report back after the event.
Drama was good and even though there were only seven people that turned up, it meant we all had our moment in the spotlight. Michaela and Matthew, who are running the event, have said they’d like to have an end product as the end of the sessions so we might present a short skit or play for the passengers later in the cruise. I’m going to talk to Leon about putting on a fashion show on one of the next five sea days, using real passengers, I think it will be a hoot.
My talk went very well and this time I was put on properly and I asked for the lights to be turned down so as to create a little more atmosphere. There were about 300 in but Leon says this is normal, that it is only on the very first sector that the people attend everything going and then calm down a little. The comments afterwards were excellent and the book signing was well attended too, you can’t ask for more than that.
I had a phone call this morning from Louis Hoover, who is the star and co-creator of the West End smash hit musical The Rat Pack. He is a really good friend of Kenny Clayton and a massive fan of dad. He came up to Deck 9 a while later to say hello and all he did was gush over Matt Monro. He was lovely, came to my talk, bought a book and invited me to his sound rehearsal. I decided I’d actually go to his show tonight. Not only was it tremendous but he dedicated the whole evening to me and mentioned dad several times during the show. I thought it was a wonderful thing to do, it’s just a shame he’s getting off in a few days because I’m
We have also been advised that Japan prohibits the use of the ship’s Internet facilities while in Japanese waters and there will be no signal. I’ve never heard of such a thing but then again tomorrow, when going ashore in Xingang, as well as all the paperwork we have to produce and the sniffer dogs on patrol, we are going to be subjected to a temperature test by means of a scanner, although we haven’t been told why.
I’m excited, as there is a drama workshop at 2.00pm, which means I can just sneak that in before my talk at 4.15pm. It should be a lot of fun and I’ll report back after the event.
Drama was good and even though there were only seven people that turned up, it meant we all had our moment in the spotlight. Michaela and Matthew, who are running the event, have said they’d like to have an end product as the end of the sessions so we might present a short skit or play for the passengers later in the cruise. I’m going to talk to Leon about putting on a fashion show on one of the next five sea days, using real passengers, I think it will be a hoot.
My talk went very well and this time I was put on properly and I asked for the lights to be turned down so as to create a little more atmosphere. There were about 300 in but Leon says this is normal, that it is only on the very first sector that the people attend everything going and then calm down a little. The comments afterwards were excellent and the book signing was well attended too, you can’t ask for more than that.
I had a phone call this morning from Louis Hoover, who is the star and co-creator of the West End smash hit musical The Rat Pack. He is a really good friend of Kenny Clayton and a massive fan of dad. He came up to Deck 9 a while later to say hello and all he did was gush over Matt Monro. He was lovely, came to my talk, bought a book and invited me to his sound rehearsal. I decided I’d actually go to his show tonight. Not only was it tremendous but he dedicated the whole evening to me and mentioned dad several times during the show. I thought it was a wonderful thing to do, it’s just a shame he’s getting off in a few days because I’m