Sailing around the World, ( presently in Mackay, Australia,)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 26 Jul 2010 13:26
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SATURDAY 24th
JULY 2010
07.00hrs, We crawl out of the scratchers and
already find Scotty is already up rooted to his laptop in the
cockpit.
We have a light breakfast and tackle the computer
with blogs and emails.
09.00hrs, Skipper and Aileen go to
Josephine's, the hairdressor on the marina, for a hairy appointment. Skippers
hair is so long at this stage
that it could be platted easily. and Aileen needed
a complete makeover.
11.30hrs, we were finished with the hairdressor,
and really happy with what she did. Aileen looked 10 years younger and skipper
was
very neatly trimmed, looking dapper indeed. and
then the hairdressor gave us a loan of her car for a few hours to visit the town
of Mackay.
She was rather expensive, but well worth the money
and we were really happy.and so were Maggie and Slovitsa from " Crazy
Horse" and " Liza"
On our return from town, ( the shopping center)
skipper was returning the car keys to Josephine at the saloon when he observed
the
owners of " Tucanon" abusing and bullying the
hairdressor over her pricing to such an extent that she lost the cool and told
them F** off. ( rightly so )
The hairdressor was so shaken, that skipper had to
help her sit down and fetch her a cup of water to revive her.
Meanwhile the bullies marched off to the " Rally
control office" and then bullied young Nick to make a totally misleading
statement on
the morning radio to the fleet about how rude the
hairdressor was, of course forgetting to mention that they had bullied her into
the situation in the first instance.
Unbelievable, thats what, !
Look at it this way, this radio announcment was
made on behalf of people who did not have anything done at the
hairdressors, and no mention
was made on behalf of the the people who
had their hair done and were more than totally satisfied. But then, Bullies
always seem to omit the crucial facts in an
effort to get their own distorted view across. As you can see,
skipper is still upset over the whole thing.
Later, Skipper and Scotty went to the Off licence
and stocked up with wines, beer, gin & tonics for the Party on board "
A Lady " tonight
Aileen cooked a chocklet cake and did lots of
cheese and strawberry sticks, and other tit bits,
The party was in honour of Scotty's
departure, Slovitsa's departure, and as a coincidence, it happened to be Bill's
birthday as well,
( Bill from " Crazy Horse ") one of the
Yanks.
38 people in all joined the party on " A Lady" and
as it was pissing rain, everyone had to go below, so it got tight, Bodily
contact was natural
and everyone just loved the whole scene,,,
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh lovely ...
Of course Skipper had to say a few words on behalf
of the departing crew, and this was followed by a few words
from Scotty.. there were cheers all
round..and the chocklet cake was devoured in a second....not to mention the
gallons of booze.
Much later, we retired to one of the restaurants
for something to eat, having had a great night on the boat,
Much later still, we made our way back to the boat
and hit the scratchers,
ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Thats it for today.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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