It doesn’t seem long since we were racing to get Dock Cafe ready for Eamonn and the Songs of Praise film crew – obviously things move fast in BBC-land, as the programme is now ready to broadcast – set your Sky+ for tomorrow afternoon – 5:10pm, Sunday 11th March on BBC1.

In the TQ we’ll all be watching it together at the end of tomorrow’s Dock Walk.  It’s so exciting!  How and where will the Dock appear? After all that work, will there be more than a fleeting glimpse of Dock Cafe?  Will we get to see Jonny and Olwyn’s sellotape holding up postcards on the wall, or Joe and Elaine’s candle on the table?  Will anyone notice that my beard was much more fulsome on the first day of filming than the second?  Will Eamonn say “the Titanic sank, so it did”?

One thing we do know for sure is that the incomparable Eleanor will appear, as you can see by clicking here to see a preview of her contribution to the programme.  What a complete star!

And to complete my media blitzkrieg on all your senses this weekend, as well as watching my stubbly mug on BBC1, you’ll be able to listen to my dulcet tones on Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster – I’m due to pop in to chat to William Crawley about Eamonn, Songs of Praise, Titanic and all things Dock at approx 9:45am during tomorrow’s programme.  Set your…(whatever it is you set for a radio)

And on top of that, we’ve been joined in Dock Cafe this weekend by Anja, a journalist from a fabulous glossy German magazine called Mare.  We first met when I was tour-guiding last summer; she was part of a junket of journalists who were writing travel articles on the Belfast tourism scene, but after hearing about the Dock while on the Titanic Walking Tour, she concentrated more on the Dock story in her article and has now been commissioned to come back over for the weekend to do a follow-up article!  (…it’s probably for the best that her article didn’t concentrate on my tour – I think it was one of my very first, so there may have been lots of enthusiasm but not a lot of facts…!)

So – TV, radio, print – and not just in German, apparently I was in the Belfast Tele’s ‘Question of Faith’ last weekend (I didn’t see it – if anyone did and hasn’t thrown it out yet, could you save it for me!)

And invading social media as well – the Dock Cafe opening on Thursday got some great coverage on Twitter, as you can see below.

And what of Dock Cafe in the midst of all this excitement, you may well ask?  Well, you’ve seen the pics of the opening, and now we’ve got two “normal” days of business under our belts.  I’ll write about it all in more detail next week, but for now just to say:

Wow.

To get a little taster of Dock Cafe life in action, have a look at this cool timelapse from Alaninbelfast: