While I am the world’s most stubbornly, hopelessly optimistic person*, even I am forced to admit that the weather outside is indeed frightful – and so A Titanic Christmas will take place according to Plan B – gathering in the Odyssey Pavilion from 5pm onwards tonight.

Everything else will still go according to the original plan – we’ll still have hot fruit punch, plentiful pizza and lots of Christmas goodies; Santa is busy figuring out a way to abseil down from the high gantries in the roof of the Odyssey, and we’ll still gather by candlelight in a darkened Odyssey Pavilion to sing carols and celebrate Christmas as the Titanic Quarter community.  (of all our bright ideas, we’ll only abandon the ‘blazing braziers’ – we’ll try to avoid burning down the house!)

And Life in the Titanic Quarter is still continuing through the dark wet days of winter – a few snapshots of Dock Cafe today as customers shelter from the cold, enjoy steaming mugs of tea and lovely hot potato & broccoli soup, catch up with friends, or with work, or with the sports results, stretching out by the fire as the rain runs down the windows… Cosy, eh?!

So see you later – it takes more than a few rain clouds to dampen our spirits in The Dock…

(*I still do believe that it will stop raining, and probably in time for 5pm, but we can’t set up the piano and the PA system in the rain – so hey ho!)

(** UPDATE:  Ok so it didn’t stop raining.  In fact two days later it’s still raining.  But the world is still a beautiful place.)