Scarlet Oyster - Scarlet Day 8 Of Mice and Men !

It must be Sunday.

For we have slipped the surly bonds of earth
and dance the waves on laughter silvered wings

A 50 per cent increase in our readers, thank you Elsie Maynard of 4 Railway
Cottages, Fawncett, Norfolk Aged 82, Spinster who asked
" Can you tell me the difference between a jibe and a gybe, Al ?
Must you jybe ? It sounds most unsavoury'.

Yes Millicent we must. A jibe pokes fun at something or some one, a barbed
comment.

A jybe is how we turn corners when racing downwind, requiring teamwork to
perform a myriad tasks. Ross and Sarah can do this on their own but Sarah,
sadly is not here so it takes most of us and we did eleventeen last night,
some better perfomed than others as Neptune sent some unruly sprite our
efforts to undo.

Justin is called from his bed at rude hours to perfom mysteries at the bow
with lazy guy, Michael opens the pole end, Dinko and Vitaliy release the
working guy from winch, under control, and the rest of us haul sheets etc.

The penultimate gybe was hard on a messy cloud which threatened to halt us
in the small hours of the morning. Since then we have had less wind in nasty
rolling seas and work hard to soak West while getting South hopefully into
better winds ahead.

Clouds are a frequent nuisance, causing local windshifts, unstable heavy
downdraughts, compression of gradient winds ( strong gusts ) poor viz at
night, angry waves and rain of course.

Our Prime Ministers office unofficially wrote

" Keep up the good work, it is always nice to hear of Grammar School boys
from disadvantaged backgrounds benefiting from our free and open society."

The Scottish National Party commented

" How refreshing that a pair of Anglo Scots are kicking ass in major
style.!"

Jezza Carbine wrote ' Enjoy life whilst you can. A shadow cabinet member has
been appointed to nationalise you. Why have you not joined Unison to
campaign for better working conditions ? It's no bodies business but mine
what I got up to in happier times naked in a field. At least I don't
pleasure pigs !"

Al, I order you to delete that - Ross.