Wednesday

Phoned Fivemum, she's ok now, but the kids have been serially ill with throwing up/colds... all eight puppies are "fat as pigs" while Spot eats like a horse and seems thinner. She made an exotic "stew" with beans and veg and chocolate! Why she should think that this recipe was a good idea i haven't a clue, Spot loved it but the family went hungry, despite Fivemum serving it up , ever hopeful as burgers the next day.

Yesterday driving back from the school i spotted Mike, he was on a disabled car thing, fag as ever hanging from his mouth. We knew him when he was working for katie the public school trannie, on her wooden boat. His reaction to Him?her showing up and refastening the boat in a ball gown was..."what ever turns you on" and carried on working with a wicked grin. A reaction that i think disappointed the theatrical katie. i first met him when he was selling his sons boat. A beautifully kept but tiny sailing boat. His son had been sailing and tragically was killed in a car accident in Jersey, Mike had to sail his boat back and sell it. It was bought by a group of boat Building students who sailed it with reckless abandon and as i watched from the back of our boat once made a 90 degree turn at the quay to sail to their birth at high speed and sailed right slap bang into a tree. The tree took down the mast at deck level. Over indulgence of Special Brew and Weeds was blamed, but they did rebuild the mast, higher this time so the boom didn't sweep the cockpit, extending the rigging with short chains. We saw then sailing in true pirate style more than once, cans in hand and puffing splifs.

Glad to see mike is still about and still grinning with his cig in mouth. he looked like the sort of guy who didn't bother much with "normal" people just trundled along faintly amused.