John Heald's Blog : Genoa

Captains Past and Present

John Heald's Blog — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:51:50 GMT

Childhood memories are usually dominated by cloudless summer days, scraped knees from falling of your bike and burning ants alive using a magnifying glass and the sun. Mine are also dominated by the mornings when I’d come downstairs to find my school...(read more)

Mama Mia….Sacre Bleu…It’s Only A Game

John Heald's Blog — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:01:37 GMT

It’s been a tough day and as I write to you at 5:30 pm I feel very tired. My exhaustion has nothing to do with work but with the fact that the work has been done in temperatures of 80 degrees plus inside an iron box with no bloody air conditioning. This...(read more)

Hail Costa

John Heald's Blog — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:21:10 GMT

Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers. When it comes to the Romans, no speech defect is too preposterous, no gait too far fetched. We’ve had Derek Jacobi with his clubfoot and his stutter...(read more)

At the Genoa Shipyard

John Heald's Blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:11:33 GMT

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A Grand Celebration of the Carnival Splendor

John Heald's Blog — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:18:46 GMT

When you buy a washing machine, does it ever cross your mind that the water could be injected into the drum a little more quickly, or that the spin cycle could be turbocharged in some way? No? Well what about your lawn mower? Ever thought of chrome plating...(read more)

Cruising with Simon

John Heald's Blog — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:50:15 GMT

Yesterday, while I was visiting the shipyard I did something which looked ridiculous……….I tried to drive………………a Smart Car. Now I don’t know if you have seen these things in North America yet...(read more)

Jaqui, J Pegs and Jaws

John Heald's Blog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:31:59 GMT

While I find it relatively easy to sit here and blog each day to all of my mates out there, sending photos and video to Stephanie to post …….well that’s another matter. The theory of a digital camera is really impressive. You take a photo...(read more)

From the Shipyard- Preparing for the Carnival Splendor

John Heald's Blog — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:35:29 GMT

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The Splendor and The Queen

John Heald's Blog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:40:01 GMT

The hardest part of a diet is starting ……but I have and I admit I have found it as difficult as Paris Hilton would taking part in a 7th grade spelling test. However, as I ignored the gorgeous looking Italian bread and instead ate a bowl of...(read more)

A raspberry from Genoa chapter 1

John Heald's Blog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:17:18 GMT

I just went through one of those life-threatening moments of laughter……..the sort where your brain starts to run out of oxygen and you think your head will explode………I will tell you why in a moment. Originally Heidi and I...(read more)

Raspberry Blog- Part 2

John Heald's Blog — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:31:35 GMT

So here we are flying at 35,00 feet. Our Easy Jet Captain just told us that he was expecting bad weather over Germany but I don’t believe him. I generally find that weather forecasts are written by J.K. Rowling and if you want to know what the weather...(read more)

Pressing the Wong Switch

John Heald's Blog — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:42:44 GMT

With my diet in mind and knowing that exercise will play an unfortunate major part in what is about to happen I realised that I needed to go shopping. This is because unless I was going to be wearing a blue blazer and grey woolen trousers on the treadmill...(read more)