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Water, water … everywhere

I had never seen so much sea.

And sky

nor clouds

and sky

nor clouds

and sky

and sea.

How to earn respect on a sailboat …

Use a pressure cooker!

OR

make this Cheesy-Onion Loaf:

3 cups self raising flour

1 packet (60g) instant white onion soup

2 cups milk

1 cup or less of grated cheese (any hard cheese)

2 beaten eggs 

Cayenne Pepper

Mix flour and soup powder with all the milk

and two-thirds of the cheese.

Add eggs and mix.

Spoon into a lined loaf tin.

Sprinkle with left over cheese then

dust with Cayenne Pepper.

Bake at 180C/355F for 1 hour.

Voila !

Land Ahoy !  

St Helena Island : Deeply eroded volcanic rock.  You can’t anchor here - it is 4000m deep.

I sit in solitude

inside her belly, while we slice

through an ink-blue ocean.

Her wax-white wings billow

as we follow the buoy-orange sun.  

(5 January 2007)

 January 2007 : Early morning gifts from Neptune -  flying fish - all over the decks.