A few little slices of life from a fabulous Friday in The Dock…

These freshly-baked jam sponges were donated by students from Belfast Met (and had all been eaten approx 0.003456 seconds later)

As always on Fridays, Barney brought his fiddle for a bit of trad live music in the afternoon – accompanied for the first time today by Krystjan on guitar:

Our return to Summer opening hours proved popular with lots of customers enjoying the chilled-out early evening vibe:

Amidst all the chat and craic there’s always a quiet corner in The Dock – sometimes watching the world go by through the windows, or sometimes engaging with one of the many creative ways to pray in the Dock Prayer Garden:

And finally – if a picture speaks a thousand words, a video speaks a million more.  So I’ve been practising with a rather snazzy new app called Spark Camera so that I can take little slice-of-life movies of Dock Cafe life in action without having to sit swearing at iMovie for hours to edit them. So expect to see plenty more of these:

Everyone laughs at me for using massively dramatic epic soundtrack music in lots of my Dock videos… all I can say is that, for those of us involved in the birth and explosive growth of Dock Cafe, from day to day it felt as dramatic, epic, dangerous, exciting, frustrating, moving and soul-stirring as the most mind-blowingly epic movie.

And for emotions like that, only Hans Zimmer will do.  So stick on your headphones (or crank up your speakers) and push Play!

PS Don’t forget that tonight is the latest in another very exciting (Dum Dum DUMMMMMM!!!, again) development in The Dock – our monthly services on board SS Nomadic.  Tonight – a tale of three decks – Nomadic’s, Titanic’s and Carpathia’s.  See you at 6!