27 May, 2015. Cunard celebrating 175 years in he business.

Had the most wonderful news,a lovely 49 cm long addition has arrived in my family, 8 years in waiting ,9 months in making, And here he is, all of almost 3kg That he doesn't weigh more is a miracle as his mummy was eating for 4,but then she had always been a big eater.My sister, her mother-in-law has said she would eat her out of house and home,said jokingly of course ,as my sis is generosity itself, always welcoming,a great cook and an excellent hostess.Healthy,with lungs of an opera singer,the midwife and the doctor said they never heard a newborn cry so loud.He wanted the world to know-Boris has arrived...And now back to my cruise. Yesterday the ship docked in Liverpool.What anticipation,what a let down.At 2.30 the tender tickets started to be handed out, we waited for the first boat ride to shore, and waited, and waited. Finally at just past 4 we were loaded all of the 400 or so of us onto a dirty, cold, unpleasant vessel and slowly shipped ashore.And what ashore that was - the whole of Liverpool must have been in that square mile,air filled with smoke,boozers staggering, some on crutches,some being prepped up by children's buggies or wheelchairs.And the wind, freezing cold wind biting harder than a mangy vicious dog.What have I done to deserve this? Back to the gangway I went ready to return.We in the waiting room were the lucky ones, the queue stretched for good hundred meters outside in the freezing winds.Some two hours later a vessel that a word dump is too good for, took us back to the ship.How can something that had promised so much end in such a fiasco, an absolute nightmare.In fact the celebration of 175 years of existence of Cunard turned out to be too much ado about nothing, a damp squib, a great disappointment.The food didn't come up to scratch either, the desserts a real let down.Where have all the simple,old fashioned pastries gone? The fancier they look, the less I fancy them.