I ordered seven-and-a-half HOURS ago.
The word "September" has been mentioned. I'm not getting my hopes up though.
I remember coming home from a cycling holiday in Holland on a channel ferry. Myself and my friend were stuck with our bikes at the back of the boat, behind an infinite number of brand new Fiestas with no reg plates, coming from Spain. They were parked cheek by jowl and nose to tail. And something seemed to be going on and there was quite a holdup, and we couldn't see another living soul. In the end we managed to manoeuvre both ourselves and the bicycles (panniers and all) through the Fiestas to the ramp at the front. Where we discovered that the cops were searching the ship for a murderer and nobody was getting off until they were finished! (In the end we were allowed off because we were girls, but any party including a man was held on board.) My friend had a Fiesta at the time, and she kept yelling "don't touch the cars!!!" all the time we were trying to get the bikes past.
They do look so sad and dull and lonely on the boat. And yet every one of them has someone waiting for it, and when it's cleaned and polished and gleaming, it'll all be so different.
Rolfe.
