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LIFE ABOARD


its flap looking menacing and my Labrador yelping and spinning with excitement and Hub making things worse … How he thinks you can capture a budgerigar with a tennis racquet and a duster is frankly quite beyond me. I thought I would faint. Living on a boat is truly wonderful but I miss pets. I yearn for a parrot. You know, one of those gaudy ones that come in red, green and blue. Hub has vetoed it on the basis that they are “Noisy, smelly, demanding creatures


that create a mess everywhere and cost the earth.” (And the difference between that and men would be what, exactly?) so the pleasing vision I had of myself strolling around


Dartmouth sporting a fetching eye patch with a chatty Macaw blu-tacked to my shoulder must be put on hold for now. I had a cunning plan to teach it to tell tourists exactly where the Post office was thus saving me the trouble but there you go… Ferocious storms, uppity pirates, killer whales


are as nothing to me these days; nothing - but if, for example, I can’t find a pen I am prone to a sudden meltdown. unfortunately, I have just read that this sort of petty anxiety is a prime cause of sleepwalking . Well - that’s a bit of a worry, isn’t it, when you live on a boat? I mean, there you are one minute, tucked up in your berth and the next you are in the river? startled. Appalled, even. The thing is, it always pays to continually consider and review all your options when you live aboard as things can go rapidly from bad to worse and you can easily find yourself stuck literally between a rock and a hard place. Hmm.. I suppose I could nail one of Hub’s socks over each door. They would wake the dead! In fact, he has just returned, apparent- ly having been scouring the local antique shops. “oh yes?” I asked, interested, “What were you after?”.


He looked darkly at me and declared “A


scolds Bridle”. Ah – um – well, understandable, I suppose!


The Music Festival was astoundingly brilliant


and even the sun shone upon it! We were all, somehow or another, thankfully


different


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spared the aroma of twenty vans cooking burg- ers to add to our delight. The sea shanties natu- rally appeal to us hugely as does the Flamenco (I wonder if I could persuade Carlos – the hugely popular bar keep supremo of the Royal Castle to give us a turn one of these days? I bet he would!)


In fact we got so excited (it may have been


the effect of local Devon cider which is the best in england and always inspiring) that we even considered forming our own group called “The Trashed Nish Doo Dah Band” (tickets available in due course!) It’s a pity you can’t get round to see ev-


erybody but all the performers at the Festival deserve and receive much appreciation. Anyway, if you miss them you have the very best of photographers to capture them and artists to paint them. Dartmouth is such a great place to be so let’s face it, you just can’t lose. so here comes summer! Raise a (huge) glass to the Dart and enjoy!!


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