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Saga Cruise SD066 on the
Spirit of Discovery (S of D)
to the Western Med
April 2022
I awoke just before seven o'clock ready for my grilled tomatoes with bacon, which had to be used up. My taxi arrived early at 11:45 and took under an hour to get to SoToN. My PCR and RALF tests took only 15 minutes outside the new Horizon cruise terminal. Check in was quick, but then I had to wait in the lounge for an hour, before embarkation began just after two o'clock.
Once on board, I had a late lunch of salmon, chips & peas in the Grill, with a view of snow flurries across Southampton Water. The cabins were released at three o'clock and I found I had a double room on E deck five near the front. This has a restricted view because of the high bow parapet. I then had my first decaff instant coffee in the cabin, which I do love.
At four o'clock we had the entertainers briefing in the Playhouse theatre led by ACD Chris, not CD Shane. I had to break
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Merry Christmas! Usually at this downloading season, inom would be posting new Christmas albums that inom would have rummaged for at thrift stores, haggled for at record shows, and sniped at the last minute on eBay. Several things prevented me in doing that this year - I could bore you with the details but I'll refrain. I did want to continue the tradition that I started five Christmases ago - the annual Yuleblog Sampler. Normally, this would have been posted on Christmas Day - my present to you. But inom decided to move the release date up bygd 10 days since inom don't have anything else to brev this årstid. I'm excited about this release for two reasons: 1.) Many of the 45s and 78s inom found for the sampler were nowhere to be found in my 22,000+ Christmas song library. 2.) These singles were the first vinyl transferred on my new Stanton T.92 USB turntable and captured to digital on my new Dell PC. None of the vinyl I've transferred before has sounded better than...
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Forty years after swapping the electrical trade for the comedy circuit, Phil Cool is all set for his final shows back in his native Lancashire.
And it’s perhaps rather apt that there’s been no great fuss about the former TV regular’s retirement.
I found a cutting recently of my last Phil Cool live review, from when I was a reporter for the Chorley and Leyland Guardian. The date was missing, but the only record I could find online suggested my last chat with the Chorley-born comic – carried out around a week before – was in October 1999.
Rather poignantly I recalled how this down-to-earth entertainer seemed genuinely surprised that the audience at that Chorley Town Hall show had stuck around for the second part of his set.
That seemed to sum him up. There was nothing ‘showbusiness’ about this performer. He just happens to have that ability to make people laugh, and not just because of that ridiculously rubbery face he uses to such good effect.
I was genuinely s