The Voyeur on the Yacht

©2006 – Captain Rose

... I happened to glance through the window of the cabin, and what should I see but a lot of bare legs on the embankment. I quickly whipped off my bifocals and brought my best binoculars to my eyes. It was a deeply tanned woman of about 40 years of age, she was squatting as about to urinate. Her skirt was hitched up, as was a silky black petticoat, but still had on her knickers, on the outside of her thigh I could see a nasty bruise. Her knickers were white, and in front I wasn't sure if it was grime or dark hair showing through.
Someone in the park shouted: "O,!"
Probably nothing to do with her, but she reacted as if she'd been stung by a bee, dropping her skirt and reaching the concrete path in about three strides. She must have been absolutely dying for a pee because no sooner where her feet on the path that she had her skirt hitched up to her waist again, - her slender tanned legs, her lacy, white knickers, her dark patch, all revealed, and the bruise, - I almost forgot the bruise! Then I noticed sunlight glinting on a cascade of pee from her crotch, - almost a rainbow, as she stiffed-legged it along the path for all the world like a wild creature on a stampede. After a while she dropped her skirts, shook her
hands by her sides, looked over her shoulder, and disappeared among the trees and bushes towards the iron gates.
You'd be surprised the things that go on in the park in broad daylight!

Eclipse Of The Sun

Slihouette of a bird
on a branch
during the eclipse of the sun
in Islamabad, Pakistan

Italy's Vinatage Wines

If Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi were wines and not politicians, the first would be Champagne-like Franciacorta and the second the more down to earth Lambrusco. This according to a poll taken by Italian websites Wine News and Vinitaly, Italy's leading wine trade fair.

The websites recently posted the question "which wines are most like the two politicians" and received more than 2,000 replies. According to 57% of the answers, Berlusconi is like Franciacorta because he is "sparkling, exuberant, effervescent and distinctive" also comes from the Lombardy region where "Little France" is located. However some of Berlusconi's detractors observed he is like Franciacorta, because the sparkling wine is trying to be something it is not: Champagne.

Lambrusco was the obvious choice for Prodi,because they both come from Italy's Emilia Romagna region, the red sparkling Lambrusco is often served with the regional cold cut Mortadella, a derogatory nickname given to Prodi. The wine was also chosen because it is a simple and popular wine which everyone likes because it does not pretend to be anything more than what it is.

However, a fair percentage of poll replies were somewhat irreverent toward both politicians, comparing them to corked wine, cheap wine in paper cartons and wine vinegar.

Happy Easter

Is it spring time in the Northern Hemisphere? Are there new buds and tender leaves on trees? Warmer breezes coming from the sea? Downunder everything is up-side down or the other way around, no chirping chicks, nor smell of primroses in the fields... same old palm trees and winter nearly here...

To all I wish "heaps" of Springtime love.