Day 5 was a sea day so a chance to catch up with the blog a
little and a chance to eat even more than usual! We enjoyed the second of Ann Widdecombe’s
talks, this time ‘A Life in Politics’ and that lasted the best part of 90
minutes until 12.30pm.
Lunch was in the Golden Lion pub once again and in
mid-afternoon we dared to take part in our first quiz on this cruise. Now we might have had stunning quiz success while
afloat earlier this year but we know that Cunard cruises attract a different
intellectual clientele, so this could be an embarrassing experience.
We were our usual team of two surrounded by teams of 4, 5
and more? – the limit is supposed to be 6 to a team but that does seem to get
blurred at the edges sometimes! We got
12/20, while our 4-strong neighbours got 8 so we didn’t feel too gutted. The winners got 18 – team size unclear!
One question was “Who was the paranoid android in ‘The
Hitchhikers Gide to the Galaxy’?”.
Another was “Who wrote the Dune series of science fiction novels?”, so
we were quite happy to get 12 overall.
The evening was a formal night “Roaring Twenties”. We got off to a false start when we were
posing for the cabin steward to take our photo and yet it was only after we’d
arrived at the Captain’s Loyalty Cocktail Reception that Graeme realised he had
forgotten to put his black and white patents on!
There was once again pretty much a 100% level of dress code
adherence and a much higher proportion had gone dressed for the 20s theme than had been
the case with the Victoriana Ball.
We had an enjoyable evening and seem to spend ever longer
each evening chatting to the New Zealand couple on the table next to us. They’re from Dunedin in New Zealand’s deep
south, which Jim describes as ‘cold’!
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| Sheryl and Jim, who were on the table next to ours for evening meals |
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