My love.. she's gone

Now I am high and dry. After 8 years of faithful service she is gone. My boat, that is. I sold her on Thursday.

Here she is, being towed away by her new owners.. Good bye my love, and bon voyage..

Now, I will be a landlubber for a while.

Now, the title on top of my blog which says I love my boat is a lie, in that she was my boat.

Lawd. Hopefully I will be too busy to wallow in grief.

Enjoy your weekend folks in blogland. Yo to my cuz's Debbie and Joanie in Kingston Town.

Quote of all quotes.

"If I am appointed by the Almighty to be Prime Minister, then all of you Christians must give support to the appointment of the Lord. If it is not done, the whip will not be drawn against me, because I am going to be carrying out His will."

Thus saith the "Rt. Rev." Hon. Portia Lucrecia Simpson Miller, as she stood in a Kingston church a few short days ago.

Well, the new Jamaican Prime Minister has started out with all guns blazing. Pictured above, she exudes an image of one person consumed by the holy spirit. I am sure some of you already saw this picture.

God Bless her. And more importantly, God bless Jamaica.

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What a stupid show that "wife swap" is!

Now, their advertising one reality show where some young guys are choosing between abstinence and their hormone charged girlfriends so that they can become priests. In the ad, one of the priest candidates is agonising over falling in love with some gyal whilst he is considering the (Catholic) priesthood.

I will try to avoid that show, thank you very much.

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Cricket, lovely West Indies Cricket. Do you know its amazing, I asked everyone to rally round the Windies, and they still got a couple of boos.

Its amazing. This pastes a grim picture of the future for Chando.

Regardless of anything, it is not the way to improve our cricket, I am insisting. Somewhere deep inside all our troubles, is a European (at Digicel, maybe?) who is orchestrating a "divide an conquer" policy against the Windies. And we are too blind to see it.


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Last subject, more serious:

My parents were in a car crash yesterday. Some young idiot was overtaking a line of cars coming from the West Bay direction down the new Esterley Tibbetts highway. My parents were going in the other direction. The guy, driving a Ford Escape SUV, hit my parents into a deep ditch. Some tourist ended up pulling my parents out, as they were afraid the car was going to sink into some water which was behind the car.

My mother remains in hospital with a badly bruised shin, a nasty cut on her hand with stitches, and some chest and back pains. I expect her out like tomorrow or Wednesday 12th.

Interestingly, my parents were driving a Mazda Tribute SUV which is actually the same vehicle as the Ford Escape, with slighly different trim etc, and different branding. I went to the Traffic Dept today and saw them both. Both are rightoffs, I would say, especially the Escape.

I will surf thru a couple of your blogs now.

Cricket remedy

West Indies Fans, I write to enlist your support for captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul. This man needs our unqualified support in that role as a critical element to his success. Without such support he will (continue to) suffer.

All the other test captains are given constant publicity. This is no accident. This is crucial and important. "Rally round the West Indies" is not just a great soca song, it is a very necessary and essential tool for West Indian cricketing success.

"Good vibes" is necessary and required. And this man needs to feel it from us. Sure, at the crease he stands up like a hermit crab, or a soldier crab as they are called in these beautiful islands that I call my home. Sometimes his bat is actually facing backward, but anyway, this man is accomplished, so let them talk.. this man is a serious cricketer, make no mistake about it.

No one should say that they are awaiting his replacement. No one should be singing Rock of Ages to his captaincy. Leave that to the WICB and the management of the team, in their seemingly infinite wisdom.

Zimbabwe is coming to the Islands to play us, remember folks, please turn on the cricket, attend a match, send an email, comment on a cricket blog, even watch the results on the sports news, whatever you do.. remember to rally round the West Indies.

A closer examination of West Indies cricket will reveal to those of us with a discerning eye (or at least those of us who are semi-conscious, like me) that West Indies cricket, despite the dismal results, is on the mend, I tell you.. watch Runako Morton, for example. There is a weapon to be reckoned with. Runako can stand up to the best in the world. You can see it for yourself, you need not take my word.

Support of our captain is of course only one of several important elements to his success and the success of the team itself. Shiv, the board, the team, and the management are more than capable of taking care of the rest. Support, good vibes, and good wishes are what you and I can do.