Thank you to everyone, your comments made my heart sing. This was actually quite embarrassing because I was sat in the libary enjoying one of their snow capped truffles in the bistro department and got shusshed by Vera who really needs to loosen up a bit. No seriously she does, her skirt is at least two sizes too small and she has to frequently break wind to compensate. She said in a hushed whisper, and with some venom " Young lady, we do not permit heart singing, please respect our readers' right to absolute silence"
I quietly, and with all due respect, stuck out my tongue at her. What's she going to do? Shave my head and send me to Afghanistan? Been there, done that, got the flack vest.
Speaking of which, should the Royal Navy Provost ask any of you about the Flack vest, please observe Omerta because I know where some of you live. Same goes for the night binoculars, life jacket, 23m of polyprop rope, two forks, pussers sleeping bag, Apache drivers manual and the small bolt from the tail rotor of Ugly two, nine flags from various vessels, the brass thingy from fire hose 16 on HMS Dauntless, the same but bigger from USS Cape St. George and sundry souveniers from ten years service and another six as cadettess.
I have decided that I shall greatly miss letting words drop to the pages of these forums and following discussions with Lambert (not actually a discussion per se, I just told him what I was going to do ) we agreed that I would try as hard as I could, like a caterpillar shedding its whatsmacalled, to send irregular updates from the Island to here, via Daddy, who signed up before the calloways came out but hardly never doesn't play very often, or almost not at all.
Oh! I almost forgot. Wait, I DID forget, sorry.
Lizzie xx