I am writing this as we are three or four months into the pandemic here in Scotland.

Back in early March, my nephew informed me he had been following Dr. Campbell on Youtube, and he had mentioned Vitamin D.  This sparked my interest, and I have followed it ever since.  Here's the highlights.  I have been taking between 25 and 50 micrograms each day ever since I learned about it, and you should be too.  Dr. Campbell has been more and more insistent about it as the months and data have come in.

• Vitamin D is really important and most of us don't get enough of it.  Not having enough of it impacts how effective your immune system is, including defending you against COVID-19.
• The main source of Vitamin D is from being outside in the sunshine.  People with pale skin make enough Vitamin D quite quickly - but in Scotland and much of the UK this isn't possible for much of the year because there's not enough sun, so you should be taking a Vitamin D supplement.  This is even more important if you don't spend much time outside.
• If you have darker skin, you are even more impacted, as your skin makes less Vitamin D, so you need to take care.  You should read up on this.
• The UK government recommends 10 micrograms, however this is only enough to stop your bones going bendy!!  You really need much more than that.

Last weekend I visited the new V&A Dundee to see the Ocean Liners Speed & Style exhibition.  The exhibition itself was absolutely wonderful, very cleverly put together, it was quite possible to spend at least a couple of hours looking through it all.  The way the items were presented, and the occasional addition of sound or video or special lighting all added up to a captivating experience.

As for the V&A building itself?  I'm sorry.  I didn't get it.  Appeared to have huge amount of wasted space, then huge spaces devoted to a café, shop and restaurant, and that doesn't leave much exhibit space, which is the point of the whole building... in that respect it reminded me of the Riverside Museum, Glasgow, which also doesn't appear to fulfil its main objective of being a good building to display things in.  This means that the small Scottish Design area is overcrowded, with long queues when I was there.

In short I'd highly recommend the current exhibition, and if a future exhibition interests you then do go, but  otherwise I'd maybe postpone your visit until it quietens down a bit (and they turn the restaurant into more exhibit space...).

Tickets are now on sale for the big QE2 event of 2017 - the QE2 Story 50 Years Conference in Clydebank, on September 22nd 2017

https://www.qe2event.com

The QE2 Story’s Event Group is organising a fabulous conference at Clydebank Town Hall for you to celebrate 50 years since QE2’s launch at John Brown’s Shipyard, Clydebank.

​Friday, 22nd September 2017 is to be an important date for QE2 Story members, maritime enthusiasts and members of the public who want to celebrate QE2’s 50 years.  The conference is considered to be of significant importance in the 2017 Calendar of Maritime Events.  We expect demand for the 200 places available to be high.

60 of the world's rarest cars, and me!

In July, I travelled transatlantic from New York to Southampton via Halifax on board RMS Queen Mary 2, knocking an item off my bucket list!

My photos from the crossing are here

and I also did a review for The QE2 Story : Click here

Hundreds of websites around the web link to my site with an address that ends in a slash. This is how my old site worked, with folders. e.g. www.roblightbody.com/liners/

Unfortunately, weebly's redirect mechanisms can't cope with this trailing slash, so I'm losing most of my visitors with a 404 error page!  Very frustrating indeed.