“Oh, it’s the Cruise Director ….good………I have a complaint”……………….now, under most circumstances this would have been no problem, however this happened half an hour ago…………at 6:40 am.

Heidi and I have been staying in a guest cabin this week. We have been working out of the CD cabin but because Todd still has all his belongings in the bedroom section of the cabin we have been sleeping on deck 1. This morning, as we have each and every morning we awoke to the sound of the alarm on my raspberry thingy telling me it was 6 am. I have to say that this morning was really hard to get out of bed as I had another late night. Heidi had relegated me to the doghouse just because my bottom had decided to do an impression of a machine gun (blame the curry)……..so overall I was not in the best of moods.
So, at 6:40 am we opened the cabin door to head to the office and as we stepped into the corridor a couple exited from the cabin opposite.

I won’t even bother telling you what there complaint was……….ok………actually I will…………it’s just so trivial…………they were disappointed in the ice cream stations on board and the fact that we only have two flavors. I stood there …at 6:40 am……….after only 5 hours sleep…………listening as they told me that on Celebrity cruise lines you get 300,000 flavors and I stood there and listened as he told me most of them pointing out that pistachio and double something with a chip thingy were their favorites.

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A Passage to India

January 24, 2008 -

John Heald -

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Pierre the Frenchman went out last night, drunk three bottles of Chateau De Rude, ate a dozen frog legs with extra garlic. He then met his Russian friend and film star Georgy Hamiltonov and they both downed a dozen vodkas.
They are both now living in my head.

Well, that’s how I feel this morning as I sit here at 6:45 am waiting for our arrival in Grand Cayman so I can start the tender operation. Last night’s show starred my friend and top comedian Al Ernst. Al pretended to be a blogger and started the show walking through the audience in his own special and “southern ” way. We then did 15 minutes of material together which went down like a storm. I then introduced him for his midnight show……………which for those of you confused at what time that started ……….it was midnight.

Henceforth it was 1:30 am before my head hit the pillow whereupon I went straight to sleep and was dreaming of hiding for the rest of the cruise in Shaquille O’Neal’s shoe …………..when the alarm went off……….at 6 am.
So, here I sit, writing to you. Heidi is eating a croissant (her support of the French drives me mad) and I am nibbling on a bagel.

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