Hurrah for the Mid-Life Crisis!

longjohnsadler

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No, not me. My friend Andy. Got divorced last year, kicked a highly paid job in finance into touch, and bummed round the world for 9 months, hitching a lift back across the Atlantic recently on a 60-footer. Crisis? What crisis?
And this thursday we're off from Swilly to Colonsay, then round Ardnamurchan, in the footsteps of those great Scottish explorers Eric the Viking and Caledonian MacBrayne. Unless of course its a force 7 or 8, in which case you'll find us in Paddy O'Rourke's. As they say round here, 'A pint of plain is your only man.'

Incidentally, my father told me yesterday Scuttlebutt is US Navy slang for rumour or gossip.Of course you all knew that but I didn't. He says that sounds about right for a bunch of old women. Don't know what he meant by that...

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From a water butt placed near the galley scuttle, from which the crew could take a drink of water in an idle moment. Thus becoming the gossip that was exchanged at that place. A bit like watercooler rumours in an office.

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