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Tales of Amok's Adventures
Mike Jones
Thu 7 Jan 2010 16:30
Queen (as in drama queen) seems to 'ave adapted the strange 'abit of dropping his "H's" which is sending us all 'alf crazy. We thought we would share this immensely annoying habit with you to give us something to laugh about. What is it about living in close quarters with people when you suddenly see and 'ear these things?? 'ave they been saying them all along but we just didn't notice??
We are all settling into this new routine of "rolly rolly nothing stays where you leave it" phase. The most impressive display of "rolly rolly how far will it go" was when Queen applied an egg glaze to the tops of his sailing shoes. Egg glaze that was meant to be our spanish omelette breakfast. It's amazing how far 6 eggs can go, when it gets a good run at it, then hits the fiddle at 1m/s. Believe me, it goes far. Far enough to cover a pair of size 11 sailing shoes and still have some leftover for the walls and soleboards. (But not enough for breakfast)
Of course the boat has a few rattles, but these only come out after nightfall when you can't see them, but they do a good job of keeping you awake. It is usually a can of coke which is rattling around in a bid for freedom. They are responsible for great fits of temper which involve opening all the cupboard doors and saying things like "come out you little coward" or similar.
Last night was a little easier than the first night out, but I still welcome daybreak with a certain amount of excitement. Let's call it "being able to see the opponent." It is the strangest feeling plowing forward at 6 knots or 10kph not being able to see anything. The moon which we get so blaz -eh (must be a canadian word) about onshore suddenly becomes a very important ally to let you know what is happening.
We passed between the two southern most Cape Verde Islands last night, they are about 10 miles apart. Ilha do Fogo on our starboard side is a spectacular single volcanic cone and has a crater nearly 8km in diameter. It has a height of 2829m. The only part of the island visible to us before sunset was the awesome cone which was well above the cloud level. It is an active volcano and the island is home to 40,000 cape verdeans. The volcano erupted most recently on 2nd April 1995 and created a fair amount of devastation. Alot of the island's vines were destroyed. :(
Anyway lubbers, I'm off to get the pizza going, everybody is wanting a little light entertainment this evening so they have tasked me with making pizza. I expect they want to see if I can beat the egg glaze distance. I am up for the challenge. I may not reach the lofty technical merit height of 6.0 like the eggs, but I'll get there on artistic impression.
til then, keep laughing.
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