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Another glorious start to the day. There was a flurry of excitement this morning. I was in the middle of my walk when something landed on the deck in front of me. It was an exhausted bird, a nightjar apparently. It tried to get away from me and promptly flipped on to its back. I picked it up and set it on a table. Another passenger picked it up and held it. While we were waiting for the Environmental Compliance Officer (Peter Bunney, would you believe) it fell asleep. It was taken to the bird station on board (who knew?) and will be fed and watered and finally released when we near land,
It was the second World Cruisers lunch today. Derek and Meg were supposed to join us, but Meg wasn't feeling too well and they didn't come down in the end. The food wasn't that good, to be honest. It all tasted a bit bland, maybe three months of rich food is taking it's toll. It certainly is on my waistline, many of my trousers are getting very tight. I think I've probably put on about a stone and a half.
We passed both a Chinese and a Danish warship today.
The final 60's/70's night tonight, so the last wearing of the hippy outfit. I didn't bother with the wig as it just gets in the way and is far too hot to wear.
The clocks go back again tonight, we'll be GMT +2 or BST +1. I'm a bit confused by all this at the moment and I wonder if we'll be losing an hour sometime, as this seems to be a big time zone otherwise.
This is the end of another week. Only two and a half left.
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