(0641) Still dark, despite getting a second kip. Pouring rain or rather lashing roof and windows … charming. (0934)

 

11. Moosh corner

10. A lively marriage

9. They wear the cross but no way are they Christian

8. The lies which were told at the time, the wormtongues within

7. Tulip?

6. Take it or leave it

5. TDS

4. A strange tale of the Virgin Islands

This has to have been one of the weirdest experiences … and yet it came to nothing in the end.

After writing to say DAD’s drop would be after a short second sleep, I did go back to bed and crashed … but what turned out to be an hour and three quarters later, suddenly awoke and phoned the Virgin Islands … as one does.

Call connected, some guy just said: “Rob …” seemed a British accent, not RP, not Essex estuary glottal stop … in fact, as we spoke, I thought maybe southern hemisphere. Anyway, I had no idea what to ask, so I asked, “Is that the Virgin Islands? I’m wondering if you could tell me the distance to …” (had to think quickly) “… London?”

“Gaw …” (stunned and bemused voice, followed by some words I can’t recall, pleasant manner).

“I understand this is the tourist board?”

Then it went silent but not the silence of a phone click, my feeling was he was asking someone …

… then I woke up. I was in bed, ipad on the bench near the bed, nothing in my hands (quiet at the back there, you naughty people), no phone … phone in the other room. Yikes … had to have been a dream. What the …?

Grabbed the ipad, ggled Virgin Islands … hmmmm, seems there are two … I’m assuming this was British Virgin Islands … long, long list of Qs and As below, most interesting.

Next strange thing was that I wrote this above at 0658 before forgetting it. Weird.