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Bore Virgin

Relates to Peregrinations and Surfing

Pretty shattered right now. Had quite a long week, and having been on nights, switched my time clock this am to catch a quick surf on the Bore with Wiz and The Owl. Was quite a nipper, but we clocked a bit of mileage, and it was the only opportunity to give my resurrected mal (courtesy of Toots) a test drive before we head off to the French Mascaret in a couple of weeks. Having had 3 hours sleep the previous day, I had hopped to get an early night, but couldn't resist the Beeb late night movie, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and The Gypsy. Always have a craving for period dramas, but this was made all the more appealing by the disastrous finale, in which the exploded dam brings an excuse for the gypsy to finally seduce the virgin. The somewhat tame footage of the waters rolling up the river from the dam, was actually filmed on the Severn Bore at the very spot we surfed this morning!

Posted on Friday, Sep 12, 2003 at 22:30:29.