Old Salty said...I just realised that through all this discussion we have not heard one peep from the IWC chief organiser of this event on why he piked. Was it the threat of the jetty or bouys or was he the irrate fisherman that was abusing everyone

Crowie stand up and confess.
So you don't go looking for it yourself, I've already tracked down the soundtrack to my predictably tragic response.
Its not good I'm afraid...head down...glum...this 'no show' problem wouldn't have occured this time last year, but then that's what happens when 2 become 3 and, to completely mis-quote Princess Diana, sometimes there's just no room for a 4th person in this relationship - in this case my Futura rather than Horseface Parker Bowles. So, nipper wakes up with conjunctivitis at 3am on the day of the Roadtrip. I'd been on the lash the night before and, to be honest, its not easy when you've not been on the lash the night before. As economic migrants leaching off the Australian taxpayer, we're without grandparents in this wide brown land, and couldn't just flick the patient off to granny with a ''look after him for the day and I'll be back by 8pm and sort his bright pink eyes out while you're at it''. And with just the one car, it was a bit of a dilemma between RRRRRRRRRRRRRoadtrip!! or waiting for the pharmacy to open at 9am to administer appropriate TLC to aforementioned infant. So, and now the violins are holstered up against the shoulder to start playing some funereal music, I had to make a fatherly call. How pathetic is that! A terrible example for the youngsters. It won't happen again.