It was on that date (31st March 1909) that the Titanic’s keel was laid down in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast (slip 3). Monday, 6th January 2025, the same thing happened in our kitchen. The winter build project has begun.
Yesterday afternoon was great fun. A piano lesson where we started on two new pieces, one from the course book, and another from a separate collection that’s also grade four standard, and that second piece is one my student must prepare on his own. At the Thursday lesson, we’re going to return to a Chopin piece (prelude in E minor) that he played a year ago, and we’re going to shift it up a level. After that hour, we spent two in the kitchen getting to grips with the huge 1/400 scale Titanic, doing what we can while we wait for the paints to arrive. (We could at least start an undercoat.)
Yesterday was also Epiphany, and it’s traditional for the one who rescued the cross from the sea to parade it around town and village where people are free to drop a donation to that person’s church. We just happened to be in the bar when the triumphant party arrived last night, but they were on such a whistle stop tour, I didn’t have time for a decent photo.
Today, I’ve woken up to a clear crisp sky, no breeze, a flat sea and a great view, but it’s not always like that. This, for example, was Christmas week.
Mind you, so was this cosy scene…
And now, on with the day. Writing, of course, maybe a trip to Yialos for one or both of us, and some more editing this afternoon. It’s Yiannis’ name day today, and we’ve been invited to go for a drink with him at the bar later, which we will, but it will have to be the last time this week. That, so far, is what today holds in store.
