First of all, how are you doing?

We're doing okay.

Thank you.

Yeah.

I mean, we spoke to you the other day a couple of days ago, and you seemed very, very calm.

The number of cases diagnosed on the ship has now risen significantly.

Do you still feel calm?

Do you feel more worried now?

Well, perhaps a little bit more anxious that there are so many.

Um, but also today, somebody who we've been quite close to during the cruise was taken to hospital.

So that's bit more concerning.

Has the information changed?

It'll that you're getting so we're up to date with exactly what you've just told us.

61 have bean taken from the ship today.

The changes that we've had on board are that we've bean given a digital thermometer every passenger has their own on were requested to take our temperatures every four hours.

If the temperature exceeds 37.5, we have to phone the ship's medical team on.

Then they're a swab taken from our throat.

That will go off for analysis on that could then lead to being taken off the ship and put into a medical facility on Sally.

You were saying there that someone that you had become friendly with on the cruise has been taken to hospital?

Have you heard how they're doing?

Um, well, he was actually taken off.

Um, without any symptoms.

They did a throat swab on him.

He had no visible symptoms on dhe.

They're wondering whether you might have been a carrier, but, you know, he still contracted it from the ship, but he just hasn't come out with it.

Um, we've been having dinner with him and his wife every evening for the last two weeks.

You you still seem to be remaining very calm.

And I'm just wondering how you're managing to do that, given that the numbers have gone up on also there clearly stepping up precautions by issuing you with these digital thermometers.

How are you managing to stay so calm?

Well, what can we do?

We can't go anywhere.

We've just got to accept it.

I mean, there's no point in sitting down on crying about it.

We just gotta get under.

Then you know there's two choices we can either crashing crumble or we can face it.

Chin on, Andi, we've chosen to face it.

Tune on.

We have to accept everything that's going to come and deal with it in the best possible way that we can.

We know we're in good hands.

The ship taking care of us if we have to go to a medical facility.

I wish it was in the UK, I really do.

But if we do have to go to war in Japan, they'll take care of us.

And how are you managing day today in terms of the food situation?

In terms of how you're keeping yourselves busy?

Well, the food is is brilliant.

I mean, we have three meals a day, usually delivered around seven.

AM breakfast, lunch about 12.

30 and then dinner about six in the evening.

So we've got we're not hungry.

Plenty of food.

Um, water.

We're getting at least two liters of water each per day.

Um, plus teas and coffees and stuff as well.

So we're not going short of that.

They're loading new videos onto the screen every day on.

We have a large screen TV in the bedroom, You know, um, or in the cabin.

I should say so.

They're catering for us on that side.

of it.

They're also giving us puzzles.

Crosswords.

So, Duke.

Oh, pack of playing cards every day.

They're trying to give us much entertainment value to passion, just as they can.

And are some of the passengers starting to worry now, or are they all like you?

Sort of taking on the chin, as you put it?

No, there is a lot of concern on board now.

I don't think this panic, but I think people are, uh concerned.

Yeah, there's anxiety.

Aunt, Have any of the British authorities been in touch with any of you?

No.

No, they haven't.

But again, this is where Princess Cruise Lines have bean.

Terrific.

They have published a sheet for every country of the telephone numbers off the offices in the U.

K for us that we should contact.

But the water, they call it the home off.

Not that the Foreign Office have issued announcement this afternoon to say, unless conditions change, we will not need to go into quarantine back in the UK If we've done the 14 days here, that will be sufficient, but they have put a safeguarding clause in unless things change.

I think it's something we have to face up to, um we know that our quarantine data is being extended so we would do 14 days from when it started.

It's now been extended to 19.

No, not 19 until February.

The 19th is when we are due to disembark.

Now there's only one day extras, Nick.

So how close do you think you are to coming home?

Oh, wow.

That is a question I would love to answer.

Have you got your crystal ball handy?

I I'm not a negative person, but I have to be realistic on it.

Won't surprise me if there are more announcements tomorrow to say that there are infected people onboard.

I hope I am wrong.

If I'm wrong, then I think we will be heading back to the UK on February the 19th.

If I'm correct in that assumption, the days it will be extended by another 24 hours.

But I think the fact that they've they've all had death thermometers today we could find that people of panics and it's gone up one notch and we'll phone somebody and then they will do something.