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Just finished reading this book by Griff Rhys Jones (he of the Alas Not the Nine O'Clock Restoration tv).
I really enjoyed it - not exactly three laughs a page as the blurb from the Daily Mail thought, but v.humourous, some great passages about passages (sea going ones) and deftly observed crew behaviours I readily identified with.
Makes me want to buy an old boat and do the trip myself. Now, where did I put that media production company I could sell off to raise a quid or two....
I really enjoyed it - not exactly three laughs a page as the blurb from the Daily Mail thought, but v.humourous, some great passages about passages (sea going ones) and deftly observed crew behaviours I readily identified with.
Makes me want to buy an old boat and do the trip myself. Now, where did I put that media production company I could sell off to raise a quid or two....