You never know

Messenger madness descended on this, ahem, fine vessel this morning. It was all getting a bit too much. Especially for one poor chap who was taken very ill. At one point he looked a bit of a gonner to some eyes. They zipped him ashore to Ramsgate, paramedic in attendance, and an ambulance collected him there and zoomed him along to A and E at Margate.   Some hours later, following rumours that the poor chap had had a stroke and other similar nasty things, we got word that it was but an ear infection that had effected his BP and balance and generally made him look a total loss. Good news, he may even be back out here and getting cheesed off with the silly messenger arrangments within a few days.   For the last two months at least, I've been putting off going for annual bloodtests and similar but that incident today was a salutory reminder that such action is foolish. Yesterday or whenever I remarked that I would go into ostrich mode, eg head in the sand and ignore all threats. That's just daft. Next week will see me at the Limes medical centre clutching my red green and yellow test sheet. Bring it on.   The weather out here tonight is just about as perfect as an offshore cable installer could wish for.  A great pity then, that, as I write, we sit here waiting for the bewly re-socketed tugger wire socket resin to reset. Just one tugger available!! Wonderful.