The heaters are on… the rain is beating against the window panes… the Christmas tree lights are still twinkling (for another day or two…)… the last pot of Christmas Brew coffee is on the hot plate… Yep, Dock Cafe is open again for the first day of business in 2013.  It’s good to be back!

And what an exciting start to the year…  It’s been a week of Dock Walks – first of all our New Year’s Day walk on Tuesday, as we walked and dreamed and prayed about all our hopes and plans for 2013.  And stopped to give thanks for all that’s happened in 2012 – remembering that on our New Years Day walk last year, there was no such thing as Dock Cafe, no admittance yet to the building site of Titanic Belfast, no way to walk on Titanic’s slipways… so many changes in such an incredible year.

Then today, Dock Cafe had only been open for a few minutes when a BBC crew arrived – we had arranged for some 0f our regular walkers to be here so that one of our Dock Walks could be recorded for radio broadcast.  After a few minutes where it felt a bit awkward being followed around by a boom microphone, the team relaxed into it and did a great job – as always the conversation was buzzing with different ideas and perspectives as we chewed over a Bible passage from one of the Wordlive podcasts.  The result will be broadcast as the Sunday service on BBC Radio Ulster this coming Sunday morning (6/1/13) at 10:15am – a unique Sunday broadcast to start the new year!