Monday 15/05/06

Cloudy but dry today. Muirneag comes into port at 8.30. My breakfast is rather later. Karen heads out for the day, for a walk round the Castle Grounds and a drive to Ness. She has now taken about 800 pics on her trip. At 4.30, a gastanker comes into port. It's called the Gas Pioneer this time round. At 7pm, I take mrs B out to An Lanntair to view "14 days in Great Britain". This is a condensation into 92 minutes, of 139 hours of footage shot by David W. Gibbons. This chappie toured the UK in August 2005, visiting 14 towns in 14 days. His format was simple: talk to ordinary people in the street, take their picture and an interview if they are agreeable. The subject: life in general. Questions like "What do you want from life, what advice would you give the next generation". It is followed by a Q&A session, finishing at 9.45. It was half an hour late in starting. The start was billed for 7.00 pm, but for an obscure reason, they played the same song 6 times over and started the show at 7.30.