Well, I'm glad there was a shanty session yesterday, even if it was a short one. We are going to miss the September session, while we're away on our tour of the UK.

There were only about 10 people leading songs last evening but everyone did a great job. And when Tom and Linn, and Judy and I, had to leave for our various other commitments, people were still singing.

I got to try out a new C. Fox Smith songs I've been learning called "The Jolly Bargeman," along with two other Smith based songs "Outward Bound" and "Rosario."

There was a nice run of songs on the theme of sailors leaving their loved ones or being left by their loved ones. And the fluttering of doves in the crows nests, the lily white breasts, and the ghostly apparitions of recently drowned loves are images still etched in my mind.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble