Tuesday – Not So Rocky

This morning I awoke suddenly. I’m not sure if I slept through my alarm, woke to the alarm, turned it off and went back to sleep again, or if I’d completely forgotten to set the alarm in the first place. Either way, I awoke slightly disorientated, realised the time was almost 9am, got dressed quickly and dashed upstairs to Marco’s for breakfast, which would be finishing at 9:30am.

It doesn’t help with the deadlights being closed; those are the bolt-down hatches that cover the portholes during rough weather. It doesn’t matter what time you wake up, it always feels like the middle of the night.

The good news is that the deadlight locker-upper came around this morning and opened them up. The rocky seas have subsided somewhat, hence their opening… daylight! Luxury!

The rest of the day was pretty humdrum. Although the sun made an appearance, it’s still been cold and windy outside (apparently), so the lounges have remained busy.

I held my penultimate classes today, in which I ran through the ‘Composition Checklist’; a list of dos and don’ts for designing a new painting (or fixing a broken one), and urged everyone to bring along their paintings in readiness for Friday’s exhibition. Some folks are reticent (as they always are), but the pile of work is growing nicely.

Tonight, we put our clocks forward one hour for the last time; tomorrow, we will be in UK time, and approaching our final destination, Ireland.