A Nautical Nomad

10 December 2017

With travel more or less impossible I have taken to trawling through my past Facebook postings and came across this one, from December 2017. Very apt for a couple of reasons. Reference is made to Donald Trumps policies especially in respect to his views on foreign people coming to the US. Well the American people have recently woke up and have sent him packing.

The other reference was to the SNP ( Scottish National Party) who have constantly prevaricated in what should be their main propose in life and that is the attainment of independence for Scotland. Well that was three years ago and they are still at it and now we are on the eave of leaving the EU and despite the promises of Nicola sturgeon to move towards independence, we are no where near that goal.

Transatlantic voyage on the QM2

Well day four on my transatlantic sojourn and I must admit, it is hard to settle in to this sedentary interlude of relaxation after the hustle and bustle of business, which gets pretty intense at times.

The ship was delayed in leaving New York because of the premier of “The Greatest Showman” being held on board. It was a bit of a nuisance as some of the passageways on the ship were blocked off and for the people who wished to see the sail away from New York , they were faced with a 2 in the morning late night because that is when the ship left.

When I boarded the ship I went on deck and looked out towards the statue of liberty and got to thinking of what America stands for today. The statue of liberty was a gift from the people of France to celebrate Americas freedom. It stands at the entrance to New York city where the emigrants came to Ellis island from all over the planet to make new life’s in that great country.

The Lady Liberty holds in its hand the torch of freedom. It says to the World “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free” How hollow that now sounds with a president who is preventing people coming to the shores of America based on the country of their origin which includes the colour of their skin together with their religion. A President who has just re-ignited the flames of war in the middle east by allowing his masters in the Zionist Israeli government to dictate American policy by declaring acceptance of the City of Jerusalem as the official capital city of the artificial state of Israel. I say artificial because that is exactly what it is. Israel is an artificial construction of expediency made by man, using God as an excuse.

So enough of politics and I will not even comment on the farce that is the Brexit negotiations or the ever-clearing mist around the SNP position regarding independence. I say mist considerately and selectively as I am directing this at the selectively blind sycophantic sheeple of the SNP who I have been warning, that this situation would arise. The situation I am talking about is the position where all of the UK will be part of the single market taking away any hope that Nicola Sturgeon has ( if she ever had) of calling another referendum on the basis of no single market deal . Something that Scotland never voted for in the first place.

So back to the travelogue. Sitting here listening to the piano tinkling away in the background drinking coffee. Actually, thinking too much and my coffee has gone cold. Another formal night tonight, which is a pest. I was speaking to a guy from New York yesterday who is obviously a Cunardphile . He goes about during the day with a jacket tie and waistcoat on trying to be more British than the British. He tells me he has been on over 40 cruises, all with Cunard. He also tells me that he wears a kilt on formal nights and was asking me how to properly wear his plaid ( or sash ,as he called it) he also told me that it was a different tartan than his kilt. My first reaction was to burst out laughing and tell him that he will look a proper dick, but I resisted the urge and explained that a plaid is not now normally worn with a kilt and the origin is that it was actually part of the kilt , the kilt being made of 8 yards of cloth one end being wound around the person and the end part being thrown over the shoulder and fastened by the belt. I look forward to seeing is outfit tonight, he tells me it is the Balmoral Tartan so you can imaging who his heroes are.

Ok so time to change into my shabby Kilt for the Captains reception which I have been invited to ( free drink)I hope all my friends are having a good weekend Slainte.