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Row Across The Pond
Richard Hoyland and Steve Coe
Fri 5 Feb 2010 20:38
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Steve...
great to hear our blogs are appear to be appealing and are a
little focus for you during your otherwise'normal days' compared to ours,, If
the one about 'the shift in a life of... ' made you feel better about some of
your own things , soft bed etc then brilll, That evening i was describing
our circumstances and shift changeover scenarios, the stars were brilliant, the
temp was great and some of the rowing was good too.. its not all discomfort,,
just most of it!!!!,, Just a breif reply to Sue who was reminding me how
tolerent and lovely my wife is with consideration to me forgeting
her birthday.. I thought I got away with that one as that was not
only some time ago but also no one else commented which surprised me. Better
late than never I guess.. So after you let me me know yor feelings i felt like
jumping off the boat,, however thats no good so did and extra hard session on
the oars in penance for forgetting b day and to get home quicker.. for
the more astute of you, i hear you saying, my god hes only selectively
working hard and has energy left in reserve for certain occassions.. well
believe me, each session on the oars seems hard to me...
Now on to a very important subject.. the winner of the limeric
competion..
for those who are un aware, rich and i decided to have a
little competion to see which of the two of us could write the best limeric,,
winner being the other made the other breakfast,, ok fine,,, We presented our
limerics for your vote and the lines are now closed for voting, (Sue, I
know your a bit slow sorry you've missed the deadline for this one)
Intersestngly enough we also received many limerics from you,
our trusty blog readers and I, the competition master, decided
to throw the competition open and the winner would receive an all expenses paid
trip to greet us in antigua... What a prize,,,.
So in summary some limerics recived were good and
some not so, Jules and Bridget naming no names was not so
good, Sadly, like in Take Heart I cannot read them all
out, but thanks anyway, your votes and comments have duly
been counted and noted,,
Take note I, (thats ME ) have the overiding decision who is
the winner... I bet you now think you know who the winner is going to
be,, but to be fair, those who know me well enough also know I would be
fair..
The inspiration for this little competition came
from someone who wrote probably the best limeric
ever written and certainly the best limeric in this competition, It was the
one i published in previous blog that went...
"there were two men from Surrey...
who went to row an ocean in a hurry......
(Spare me writing it all out again, time typing is valuable
downtime rowing. ooooh.)
Anyhow, this was written none other than by Amanda
Hammond. Ok Amanda, I think i here you getting exicted about the prize,
Primarily there were two limerics in the running, I would like to think mine was
the best, but as mentioned before in previous blog I disqualified myself as I am
illiterate and dont even no what a limiric is...?
Thanks Abiigail again for letting me know I am illustrious or is it
illiterate,, fair play.
So, the two remaining contenders for the big prize are richard
and amanda,, the competition organiser has after mcuh consideration given the
first prize, on public vote, (not my vote of course) and with great regret i have to announce Mr R Hoyland the
winner...
Sorry Amanda, your chance for the all expense holiday to
antigua was dashed, although hugely more superior in style, simplicity and
quality your limiric was techncally
incorrect.... Dah da DAAAAAAN...
The content was misleading, neither richard or
myself come from surrey... I from London and Richard, definately not
surrey..
PS Thanks Dad for your little ditty ( father like son you too
did not write and limiric)
Gill be proud of your son, hes a genius....
Richard...
The weather at the moment seems to alternate between really
hot and extremely hot...kinda like stepping out of a fire into a furnace. So
rowing in this relentless heat is now starting to become one of the key
challenges. The nights bring colder conditions but you have less of a idea of
what the waves are doing! So we are making sure we are drinking loads of
fluids and resting out of the sun in our off periods to recharge the batteries.
Water water everywhere.
Today we had to call home to try and find out what's happening
with a particularly arkward little Southerly winds that has slowed our progress
:-( No idea how long we will have this, but it appears that most of the fleet
are being impacted in some fashion or another. Still we row onwards against the
wind, as it is light at the moment...dreading the moment when the anchor may
need to come out :-( I've developed a very strong phobia for this particular
piece of kit after our torture of 5 days sitting going nowhere.
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