indebted to Michael for the dimensions his skill and talent provided to my character.
Having no underwater skills, knowledge or experience, I went to the Royal Navy and asked for help. Everyone at the Admiralty was one hundred per cent helpful. They sent me to the Royal Navy’s diving school and this experience is described here more or less as it happened. It was only when I was half-way through the course, and up to my neck in water on the ladder of the diving tank, that I confessed that I could not swim. They were shocked and apprehensive on my behalf but as I said: ‘What is the point of wearing all this scuba gear if you can manage without it?’ The chief instructor gave a grim smile and nodded me down into the water. Those were the days when you didn’t have to wonder why health and safety allowed the war to be won!
Solution
1. Parley
2. Nostrum
3. Air
4. Me
5. Pistol
6. Gib
7. Brief
8. Road
9. Gun
10. U
11. Aid
12. Frog
13. Read
14. Sim
15. Um
16. Bills
17. Lore
18. Fado
19. Die
20. Foe
21. Sin
22. Sex
23. Boat
24. Yarn
25. Yes
26. Ball
27. All
28. Tip
29. Pray
30. Entreaty
31. Aid
32. Old
33. Nods
34. Rude
35. Guard
36. Black
37. Reread
38. Gas
39. D.D.
40. A.I.T.C.
41. Film
42. Reason
43. Sex
44. UNO
45. Deep
46. Life
47. Forgo
48. Sings
49. Echo
50. File
51. Shoes
52. Set
53. Baix
54. Yo
55. Jam
56. Beep
57. Ail
58. Tack
I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as ’twas told to me.
Perhaps the worst plight of a vessel is to be caught in a gale on a lee shore. In this connection the following … rules should be observed:
1. Never allow your vessel to be found in such a predicament …
1 Sweet talk
Marrakech is just what the guide-books say it is. Marrakech is an ancient walled city surrounded with olive groves and palm trees. Behind it rise the mountains of the high Atlas and in the city the market place at Djemaa- el-Fna is alive with jugglers, dancers, magicians, story-tellers, snake-charmers and music. Marrakech is a fairy-tale city, but on this trip I didn’t get to see much more of it than a fly-blown hotel room and the immobile faces of three
