Steve_Bentley
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Only reason I ask is after a typically obnoxious 2.5hr train journey home last night I was greeted by what I thought was the October copy of PBO. If I am not mistaken yesterday was in fact the first of September which raises various possibilities: perhaps Tom Baker is a neighbour of mine and our monthly mags became mixed up in our also typically obnoxious postal service? If I take the wrapper off tonight and open the cover will a vortex of space-time continuity swirl out and warp my house into an alternative existance where the trains run on time, the post turns up reasonably promptly and everyone observes the Colregs? Would a world appear where the obnoxious git I saw the other week would cease to exist (the one who insisted on using his sail-over-power rights and tacking his obnoxious little dinghy across my bows as I'm trying to helm my way out of the Hamble with an outboard obnoxiously insistent on turning the other direction from the tiller every time I take my eye off it and sending me crabbing off in the direction of whichever nearby vessel looks the most expensive).
Perhaps it will tell me how well the SBS went? Who bought the most expensive boat after too long in the beer tent and woke up with a hangover and a vague recollection of signing something. How many old tins of illegal anti-fouling were bought from car boots, out of date flairs, Halon extinguishers,soon-obsolete EPIRB's, non-DSC VHF's etc because after 4 pints of old wallop it seemed like a bargain. How many were told an hours training was all you needed for a nice 40ft flybridge stinkpot. How many obnoxious brokers could buy that pad in Cannes they'd always promised themselves?
Also, what was September's weather like on the whole? Wet and windless or just plain obnoxious? Will I need oillies or shorts on say the 19th? Any more races interrupted whilst buoyage was polished?
It's all very well sending the October copy a month early, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it for another few weeks. I'm living for today in the blinkered belief that sometime in September I'll get the bonus ball and afford next year's sailing.
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Perhaps it will tell me how well the SBS went? Who bought the most expensive boat after too long in the beer tent and woke up with a hangover and a vague recollection of signing something. How many old tins of illegal anti-fouling were bought from car boots, out of date flairs, Halon extinguishers,soon-obsolete EPIRB's, non-DSC VHF's etc because after 4 pints of old wallop it seemed like a bargain. How many were told an hours training was all you needed for a nice 40ft flybridge stinkpot. How many obnoxious brokers could buy that pad in Cannes they'd always promised themselves?
Also, what was September's weather like on the whole? Wet and windless or just plain obnoxious? Will I need oillies or shorts on say the 19th? Any more races interrupted whilst buoyage was polished?
It's all very well sending the October copy a month early, but I'm not sure I'm ready for it for another few weeks. I'm living for today in the blinkered belief that sometime in September I'll get the bonus ball and afford next year's sailing.
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