19th Sept. Tuesday. Awoke, had my shower and now breakfast, surprisingly. The sun is out quite strong and a lot of brave souls are in swimming, finished my crochet on deck, so that’s that, went for lunch and for the first time have gone to the cinema, saw ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ an excellent performance by Burton and Taylor, as usual hadn’t taken any afternoon tea, as I am frantically trying to shed the extra avoirdupoirs I put on in the U.S.A. but unfortunately no results yet, came down, had a bath and changed for dinner, most excellent, there seems to be general excitement on board as tomorrow Wednesday we are coming in to Southampton, saw a good cabaret and had a go at bingo, but my usual luck, nothing, came down to pack And the time is now 1.30am and so to bed.