Meditation and water

The nice young man from P and O Ferries just rang to check that we've remembered we're sailing this evening!

He assures me that winds are favourable (NE) and, anyway, the good ship Pride of Bilbao is a stabilised vessel.
This is a very good thing.
What's this, I hear you ask, surely that old salty dog isn't beginning to feel queasy? What happenned to the staunch piratical resolve, the grit, the sea-legs?


Nothing, nothing, I assure you, but I've just been re-reading the Voyage of the Beagle and it reminds me that when Charles Darwin wasn't chasing finches and fossicking on dry land, he was only able mumble raisins and dry biscuits between bouts of spewing over the side.

Just to be prepared, I'll go out now and buy some Kwells, ginger and those clever little acupuncture wristbands. England expects .....