Motorsailing uphill through this high pressure on just the starboard engine, may have a day or two of this minus one cold front passage. Depends how low the low swings, jet stream flat lining above us so it should stay north…ish. Before dropping off to sleep last night said to Tim in the penthouse bunk above that we should cut a notch in the transom and use the t’gallant yard to scull our way to England (Amistad was doing the dead fish flop again). Gina chimed in with her usual practical slant on making things work better by suggesting we bolt the spare (?) toilet seat lid on for the blade, bringing a chuckle from even those pretending to be already snoozin…very ‘Good night John boy’.

 
In the no news is good news category, have heard nada new about the formation of that TRS possibly forming off the Carolinas from two days ago. We’d have heard by now despite Northwood (British military weather fax station) not having a daily special image broadcast on the subject, sure they will when and if. Despite being a few thousand miles away, such a possibility of he-who-cannot-be-named (or is it time for a she-who-cannot-be-named) banging on our backdoor has been a front shelf concern. At our speeds it’s a bit like one of those bad dreams where you’re trying to escape someone or something as if waist deep in molasses. For those reading this of a ‘nervous disposition’ who have no idea what the hell this paragraph is talking about: Good.
 
Great book of the month club meeting today, Not On My Watch was presented by the lovely and talented 2nd Chef/Carpentress Gina. If you’ve not read it please do, but warn your neighbours as at some stage going outside to scream in frustration will certainly be on the agenda. Subject: Darfur. Status: Who cares? That’s the whole point of the book, that not enough people do care (if you can’t put your finger straight onto a map of the world and cover up the land of the dying I’m talking about then pull your other finger out and find out). When you do and spend ten minutes Googling then, as the great British abolitionist was quoted after a speech: ‘You can now leave here and do nothing…but you cannot ever say you didn’t know.’
 
Love to my girls, Kent 

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