A doing b***** all day today. No films, no lectures, no quizzes.

Yvonne celebrated her birthday the day we arrived in Southampton, Barbara celebrated hers on our third day of the cruise and I celebrate mine in about a month. So we decided to have a joint celebration and today was the day. After drinks in Norman and Lynda’s, the eight of us plus Luke decamped to the Glasshouse where Norman had wangled us the private room. It was really good fun and we all ate (and drank) well. Tomorrow we hit our first port in Brazil.