Sunday April 6^th ,  2014

Nelson’s Dockyard, Antigua 17 00.7N 61 46.2W

Today's Blog Number 2 by David (Time zone: BST – 5.0;  UTC – 4.0)

As recounted by yours truly at last night’s party (resplendent in my Frog Onesy, which I am sure you will recall was courtesy of ‘Le Trio Grenouille’).

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A “Real Worldly Story” from the “Oyster World Rally” (It’s an anagram, dontcha know?)

I shall never forget, right there in the Whitsundays - just as we joined the Oyster  Rally,   I fell in love.   Let me tell you about it.

You see in 2011, finally, AE QUIT AS an accountant to sail round the world.  After months of preparation, as I said farewell to my family and friends, our dogs - (we have four, three cocker spaniels and a WOLFHOUND), as our dogs  bid me  their enthusiastic farewell there was absolute  PANDEMONIUM!

Now, I confess that there was some scepticism about my proposed voyage among my friends at home.  People thought I was CRAZY!  DAISY on the other hand, (Daisy’s the old cow next door), thought  the cost must have been AMELIE-orated somewhat by  chance lottery winnings -  in other words – SERENDIPITY!

I first met her  - her name is Ella - at the party in  Hamilton Island.  I thought …. My DREAM’S COME TRUE.   I was absolutely captivated……     (Roger that!)  

Ours was a stormy courtship but, once we had been caught INFLAGRANTI delicto one evening on the after deck, I decided I ought to do the right thing - I had to MARI-ELLA.   So I said to her: “LUSHious  BABE, be my VALENTINE!”   Happily, she agreed –and we have set the date. You are all invited!  Of course, we’ve also invited my good friend the DUCHESS and I hope she wears her favourite pendant – she calls it the PEARL OF PERSIA. 

We’d like the reception to start promptly at two o’clock; but, however much we plan, there will always be late arrivals at the Wedding Celebration Ball ….

For example, inevitably the ‘TEUS  Family will be late, so that’s : Mr & Mrs TEUS and their son, you know,  the golfer,   PRO -TEUS.   And, of course, the whole NA Family are never on time. They’ll interrupt everything!   They’ll arrive in the company helicopter, (a CHINOOK).  So that’s MR and Mrs NA from Suffolk, their three daughters  SULA-NA,  YANTI-NA and STEA-NA and hopefully also their estranged son,  LU-NA of LONDON.   We will eat at three - and the main course?  Lob SATIKA Marsala.     Ella and I will leave for our honeymoon  in PERU,  SHArply at six! 

Don’t miss it - it will be a blast – hardly SOTTO VENTO –  No, - No it will be the stuff of LEGEND! 

Can we afford it?  Who cares - however much it costs, it will be money well SPENT!!       

Boom Boom!