Honeymoon on QE2 in 2002

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you for sorting out the troublesome image.

I can't really remember much about the Grease routines - that was Yola's thing really; from what little I remember they were doing some of the songs along with the actions that go with them.

Which of the songs?  I honestly couldn't tell you - they all sound the same to me...



Now - is anyone going to guess as to what the next image might be, from the description I gave the other day...?

[Peter Mugridge]

No guesses as to what the bit of paper might be?

Come on... have a go... I'll leave it another day or two before I post it, but when I do I can guarantee that everyone here will recognise it immediately...

[Lynda Bradford]

No guesses as to what the bit of paper might be?

Come on... have a go... I'll leave it another day or two before I post it, but when I do I can guarantee that everyone here will recognise it immediately...

Next up in a couple of days will be a small, folded, pocket document on yellow paper of some great importance with which virtually every forum member will be familiar; would anyone like to try to guess what it might be...?

I think we need another clue!  I cannot think what "a small folded pocket document on yellow paper" could be and I was on that cruise. 

[Rob Lightbody]

I think we need another clue!  I cannot think what "a small folded pocket document on yellow paper" could be and I was on that cruise.

Is it the map?

I remember using it constantly in 2007 on my first time back on board in 20 years.  Despite thinking I would know my way around, the reality was rather different.

[Peter Mugridge]

...and Rob has it!

It's the map of the ship.

No point in making you all wait any longer, now...

[cunardqueen]

I think we need another clue!  I cannot think what "a small folded pocket document on yellow paper" could be and I was on that cruise.   

I can't ever recall seeing this before , and certainly never on yellow paper

[Rob Lightbody]

It was small, perfect for an inner jacket pocket, in cream posh paper
  They gave you it at check-in in Southampton. You probably said no thanks because you didn't need it!

[Thomas Hypher]

I remember them being placed in our cabins - we kept some of them over the years and they are now in my QE2 archive from our trips, including the last one I used onboard that Captain David Perkins signed.

[Peter Mugridge]

Once again, the flash failed to go off - but once again that only added to the atmosphere with the attention drawn instead to the view from large windows behind us.

[Peter Mugridge]

A flat calm for the day at sea crossing the Bay of Biscay, and as the third picture demonstrates it did not take us long to find a certain part of the ship...

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Looks like a lovely relaxed day, and the two of you enjoying the ship.

I am curious. What did you get in the shop, and who is Tommy?

[June Ingram]

Awesome photos ! And so fun to be following along on your cruise !

[Peter Mugridge]

Tommy would be the on-board tailor - we will see shortly that the dress Yola bought that day, for which the receipt applies, needed to be adjusted.

[Peter Mugridge]

...and here is Tommy making the necessary alterations to the dress... which were minor and only took a few minutes.

( I don't suppose anyone on here knows where Tommy is working these days?  Given that we know from the receipt he was berthed in cabin 9535 and that this was September 2002 he should be traceable...? )

In the third image tonight, I appear to in a state of shock at the price tag being run through the till...  Hmm... that picture is ripe for a caption competition isn't it...?

[Peter Mugridge]

With the dress now adjusted and fitting properly, it was time for the formal dinner that evening.

Yola's aim of the camera in the third picture wasn't that good, but she appears to have inadvertently caught a celebrity in the picture with me; everyone I have shown that picture to thinks it is actress Su Pollard of Hi-de-hi fame.