36 By the Dart • Life Aboard


longer we were going to “hog the grid”. I shot out of the door and put them in full possession of the facts. They were suitably sheepish and I felt the better for delivering myself of a fierce monologue including some fine expletives. Hub, however, sighed, shook his head and begged me to behave myself. Pooh. Girl’s blouse. There is more steel to my backbone, I assure you. One group thought we were “Search and Rescue”!


Can you imagine such bad luck as to be sinking and we show up? Could life ever be that cruel? I went on deck and sniggered helplessly at the concept. I then paradoxically became so exasperated about it all that I had to do something rather than go on some sort of rampage, so I forced myself to clean out the galley cupboards. We peered and sniffed. Then it dawned on me. Throw the bloody lot out. It’s the food festival – hurrah! – we can re-stock. The Lord moves in mysterious ways. I was pleased to inform Hub of it. He


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snorted but deep down he knows it’s true. He beat me at University Challenge 15 to 8. It will take me a while to get over it. Having said that, brain boy managed to lock himself in our shore-based storage container. He escaped through a hole in the wall where they are creating new units. Laugh? – I nearly bought my own round! But we do feel somewhat unnecessarily beleaguered. I used to spend my life being staggered and


affronted by, well, just everything really. For example, in our last village, should there be a power cut, I would call the electricity suppliers in a state of high dudgeon and bellow, “What – another hour – are you insane”. Today, if I have run out of fuel, there is only such light as supplied by head torches. If I have run out of batteries, we are down to candles. You might understandably think, well don’t run out then. It isn’t quite that simple. Things on boats work differently. A battery may last a year or a day. Impossible to predict or figure out why. You learn to live in the moment, good or bad. How very spiritual I am becoming … but I need to crack on with some splining. (Filling with epoxy, you landlubbers!) From our own experiences, the end of a great


adventure is always challenging. It’s as if the universe says, “Hmm, you, it’s payback time for your cheek”. Vital at this point to keep your nerve. I sort of knew attempts would eventually be made to stick us up a creek without a paddle! In the meantime, I shall enjoy the new cocktail I have invented. Anybody for a “Harbour Wall Banger”? P.S. Have now sold the Good Ship Treshnish. So it’s


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bye from me and Hub, who – shame on me – was never quite as bad as i wrote. (He was much worse!) The editor will have to find someone else to bore the pants off you. And I am sure he will. Tee hee.• Editor - we wish Marianne and Hub well in their new adventures and thanks for entertaining us over the past couple of years. Who knows what new escapades they’ll get up to!?


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