Ben waiting to open his presents
Christmas 2006
The week running up to Christmas was fairly uneventful. Spent every morning hoping that my family’s Christmas and birthday presents and cards would arrive here after they were put on the boat back in England back in early October! Alas, they didn’t arrive until late January – but it prolonged our Christmas spirit! I was just glad that they weren’t on the cargo ship MSC Napoli that ran aground recently in Devon. What a moral dilemma – thousands of pounds worth of goods washed ashore, including brand new BMW motorbikes, and the police unsure whether they can make arrests as technically it isn’t illegal to take goods washed up to shore?!? It’s one of the most amusing stories I’ve heard for ages, especially the man who took 5 BMW steering wheels…one suspects e-bay sales will be booming. The naughty side in me does think that the companies will be heavily insured so the acquisition of a new motorbike wouldn’t cause too much of a moral dilemma, but I guess that insurance comes out of our pockets one way or another anyway!
The week running up to Christmas was fairly uneventful. Spent every morning hoping that my family’s Christmas and birthday presents and cards would arrive here after they were put on the boat back in England back in early October! Alas, they didn’t arrive until late January – but it prolonged our Christmas spirit! I was just glad that they weren’t on the cargo ship MSC Napoli that ran aground recently in Devon. What a moral dilemma – thousands of pounds worth of goods washed ashore, including brand new BMW motorbikes, and the police unsure whether they can make arrests as technically it isn’t illegal to take goods washed up to shore?!? It’s one of the most amusing stories I’ve heard for ages, especially the man who took 5 BMW steering wheels…one suspects e-bay sales will be booming. The naughty side in me does think that the companies will be heavily insured so the acquisition of a new motorbike wouldn’t cause too much of a moral dilemma, but I guess that insurance comes out of our pockets one way or another anyway!
Christmas didn’t feel like Christmas again, what I would have given for a nice blast of ice cold air to make my cheeks go numb. Andy worked on Christmas Eve and I had the house spick and span.
The expression originates from the world of wooden ship building when a spic was
a nail and a span was a chip of wood. New ships contained shiny new nails and
fresh wood chips. The ship would be said to be spic and span new.
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