How about a book on search and rescue, Speicher?
The Longest SAR, its a free pdf download.
I found it on
The CatTrike Diaries website.
ooh, a fair bit of reading there.... I spotted that the Catrike people go to
Bicyclettes de Hull Never before has the word bicylette been paired with such an unlikey placename!
I would prefer the shipping forecast to cricket. I was listening to it yesterday evening as I made dinner, and there were a lot of "gale 8, perhaps severe gale 9 later". It's often said, people listen to it in order to feel safe and tucked up warm indoors, while imagining the poor souls out in that....
And it's masterpiece of timing - no matter how much there is to say, it has to fit in the same time - Speicher, have you got to the bit where he goes in to watch it being read?
If I'm still awake at night, I enjoy the full extended version, with the coastal waters and weather stations. Sandettie Automatic is my favourite station name, and "Cape Wrath to Duncansby* Head including Orkney", my favourite inshore water area.
*Or sometimes, Dunnet's Head.
Who needs poetry?
(instead of talking to Potsy) 
I cannot get my left wrist in the proper position to just use two fingers and a thumb to hold the fork. I would never have guessed it would be so difficult.
cannot remember the rest. 
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