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ladyofastolatI've just been watching the QE2's final departure from Southampton (and seeing how busy it is, it's probably a good thing that Pellinor's in London for a few days, and not trying to come home in it.) It's got everything:
Reporters constantly passing over to other reporters, only to encounter silence, followed by confused non-sequiturs.
"And look at the excitement!" (camera cuts to a glum-looking roving reporter, and some very cold and miserable-looking crowds.)
Interview on deck with some ex-captain in which a very stereotypical-looking old lady wanders up behind him and peers quizzically over his shoulder at the camera.
"Later the captain will give his dress to the people of Southampton." Okay, I think the word was "address," but it didn't sound like it. Maybe it was "dress." I'm going to press the red button to get yet more exciting hours of this, to try to find out. EDIT: How disappointing. It was an address.
"The crew is having a wonderful time, waving." They really know how to party!
"She's now going to toot. Or hoot." One reporter then says "toot." The other, slightly pointedly, I think, says "hoot." I sense a schism.
When the fireworks start, I'll be able to make an accurate assessment of the speed of sound, by measuring the time difference between the bangs on TV and the bangs in real life.
EDIT: The fireworks are just a distant rumble, so the speed of sound will have to remain uncalculated for now. Maybe the wind's in the wrong direction. They were a lot louder for the Trafalgar fireworks in Pompey. They look good on TV, though.
EDIT2: The Isle of Wight appears to have ceased to exist. "She will sail down Southampton Water, past Calshot, then out into open water."
Reporters constantly passing over to other reporters, only to encounter silence, followed by confused non-sequiturs.
"And look at the excitement!" (camera cuts to a glum-looking roving reporter, and some very cold and miserable-looking crowds.)
Interview on deck with some ex-captain in which a very stereotypical-looking old lady wanders up behind him and peers quizzically over his shoulder at the camera.
"Later the captain will give his dress to the people of Southampton." Okay, I think the word was "address," but it didn't sound like it. Maybe it was "dress." I'm going to press the red button to get yet more exciting hours of this, to try to find out. EDIT: How disappointing. It was an address.
"The crew is having a wonderful time, waving." They really know how to party!
"She's now going to toot. Or hoot." One reporter then says "toot." The other, slightly pointedly, I think, says "hoot." I sense a schism.
When the fireworks start, I'll be able to make an accurate assessment of the speed of sound, by measuring the time difference between the bangs on TV and the bangs in real life.
EDIT: The fireworks are just a distant rumble, so the speed of sound will have to remain uncalculated for now. Maybe the wind's in the wrong direction. They were a lot louder for the Trafalgar fireworks in Pompey. They look good on TV, though.
EDIT2: The Isle of Wight appears to have ceased to exist. "She will sail down Southampton Water, past Calshot, then out into open water."
