Potluck and Knees-up

When I got back to my cabin there was a note under my door.  ‘Got a few days R and R. Can I escort you to the dinner?  Ted.’ Well, that will be nice.  We enjoy each other’s company and I will have someone to dance with – always supposing he dances.  I struggled into [...]

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Poop-Not the Party!

I’ve decided that I really should wear a costume to the ball, lest I look like the proverbial ‘party pooper’, and that will never do!  So I revisited the willing Julie and got myself, wait for it…………………….. a fairy costume.  I feel like a bit of an anachronism in this outfit, but nontheless I will [...]

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To Be or Not To Be?

The costume shop was bursting at the seams when I got there.  Colour abounded everywhere I looked.  One large section was given over to fairy-tale type dresses, with masks of feathers and sequins.  Someone had gone mad with the ‘Bedazzler’!  All the men’s stuff was upstairs. I wandered around the aisles looking a bit nonplussed [...]

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White Owl Island on the Horizon

Shipboard preparations are under way for the stay at White Owl Island.  An announcement  was made during dinner that the costume hire shop was open and anyone wishing to attend the Gala Fancy Dress Ball should make arrangements for their costumes. It was also announced that the ‘offering breads’ had been baked and were to [...]

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