Not if it's your boat that got stolen!;-)Rob C[/quote/]I don't own a boat...Peter
Quote from: Rob C on December 17, 2015, 04:55:58 pmNot if it's your boat that got stolen!;-)Rob C[/quote/]I don't own a boat...Peter......................................................And for a zillion reasons, neither do I!I originally wanted to live in one (thinking it was just about whether you could buy it), and then later I discovered the enormous annual expense these things generate, which in my case, would have implied going futt. The original idea came about in stages, the first nudge from a shoot in Rhodes, where we walked into a room in the Rodos Palece Hotel to see an exhibition of paintings. I think the painter was American, but the lady (his wife) running the room was French and she used to hire exhibition rooms in the various top hotels in the Med and they would sail from place to lace showing and working like that...Later on, after a couple of weeks in the Bahamas working on one cal which involved boating, we found ourselves in Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca, doing another, and standing in front of a boat called Tortola which belonged to an ex-broker who lived in Switzerland in winter and aboard his boat in summer. Invited aboard, the chat led to the cost of mooring a boat in Mallorca, and I realised that this chap was paying less a year for his moorings than I was to the local Scottish council as rates on a house I already owned. The contrast was plain. It led from one thing to another, and the upshot was that we sold the house and came here, but my wife refused to sink it all into a yacht - thank God! and so we managed okay. Another thing about boats here is that the taxation thing is never quite resolved, and you seem to be a dripping roast to inland revenue bodies... as they say, you can't tax blood out from a stone, so look for something fat.I even toyed with the idea of just a ski boat as consolation prize; that led to the curious situation where the Glastron agent was very happy to sell, but could never be pinned down as to where, once bought, the boat could be moored or wintered. In essence, even a toy requires you own a house with grounds, or that money doesn't matter to you in the slightest. Fortunately, I didn't nibble at the hook, and later realised that even a yacht I might have once been able to afford to buy wouldn't have been big enough for what's required for a comfortable life. Today, even a floating shoe requires you be a millionaire.But anyway, it all gave me illusions for about five years. Which pretty much sums up what this life is all about.;-)Rob C
Interestng medical condition of the thumbnail...That's not street, that's road!;-)Rob C
The good lighting in the fourth one makes his guitar sound better too.
Maybe it tastes better too.
Blueberries and blue-corn are all right, but blue notes are tastiest if they are served with the color black. You need at least a little white light in the picture to get the best from the shadows...
