Dave had promised he’d make no fuss, that dinner would be home made pasta and Bolognese sauce he’d frozen earlier, It appears that either “pasta and Bolognese sauce” is Flemish for “shrimp croquettes followed by prawns with white asparagus” or he’d made a terrible mistake with the recipe.
We’re not sure when the mistake happened, perhaps we’d distracted him in conversation during the morning, perhaps it was while we were wandering round Diksmuide in the chill of the afternoon contemplating whether we might move our respective boats there next winter. Whatever the case we suffered it in silence (apart from the odd low moan each time we took another mouthful) not wanting to embarrass him by drawing attention to it.
Last night after hearing we were going to land on her doorstep, Ria sent me a message via social media asking the question “Good food, good internet, what more do you want?” I did of course make mention in my reply of a washing machine as after a month on the road now, it’s quite possibly that certain items of apparel were in dire need of some attention, but really neither of us had made mention of the obvious, that our friendship is such that we need none of those things. The company of each other is the source of our joy.
But perhaps it's best if we don’t tell Dave that.
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Ah, at Diksmuide. You might have seen our plastic-wrapped Catharina Elisabeth in the port - waiting for our return.
Well we probably did Ian! I must say we didn't take too much notice - watching the paintball happening in the boat storage shed was fascinating enough! ;-)
Might end up there ourselves one of these winters!
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