RELAXING in a beer garden recently, reader Geoff Crowley overheard two chaps in their twenties discussing romance. Said one chap to the other, “I’ve met this girl called Natasha and she wants me to call her Tash.” “So what’s the problem?” enquired his chum. Gesturing to the resplendently fuzzy area under his own nose, the first chap said: “I’ve already got a ‘tash. I’m not sure I need two in my life.”
All at sea WE continue with our seafaring tales. Ian Craig from Strathaven once overheard a bosun, a McNeil from Barra, say to the newly-appointed able seaman: “I never saw you before today, unless, of course, you saw me.”