Ooh apparently this is entry 500. How simply exciting.

It now looks like I will be spending next week on board the QM2. This afternoon my boss made some calls to see if he could arrange accomodation, and was told “We can probably find you a corner somewhere,” with the qualification that they can’t guarantee anything until we’ve flown to Hamburg and got on board. I think that roughly translates to “We haven’t got any free cabins, but we’ve got lots of occupied cabins, so there’s a good chance someone will die.” Knowing my luck the person who dies will be the scullery maid who sleeps in the bilge, so if anyone reading this happens to be a rich old lady with a heart condition, ensconced for the foreseeable future in a Grand Duplex apartment aboard the Queen Mary II, I’d just like to say BOO!!

I never look forward to trips on boats, but I think this one might actually be quite pleasant. They don’t want us getting under their feet while we’re at sea, so we can only work while in dock - the rest of the time, as far as I can make out, is our own. So really it’s just a free cruise on the most luxurious ocean liner in the world. I think I can live with that.