Let me refresh your memory of the sea ditty thus far My, how her room-mate Anunziata Grease-Fogg would screech at her peccadilloes and other small furry animals.
She offered none. Despite having retired 20 years earlier, H is persuaded to replace the recently departed Mate; a disloyal scoundrel who has done a no-notice runner , having accepted a loadsamoney offer from the huge yacht next door. On the bridge, planning a passage through Suez and beyond, Skippy and H are astonished to see the boss driving along the IYC jetty in his Lambo cabrio, complete with Hermes and Harvey Nicks clad Camilla, triplet number two.
In equal measure H is both delighted and horrified; collectively gobsmacked , to use a phrase H neither understood nor used β he was made of different stuff. He packed his old Navy issue kit bag the following day and left; he would be fishing for dabs and flounders off Hunstanton tomorrow, he mused.
What the man wants, the man gets β to Monaco! Skippy headed for the bridge Grand, it was! Amongst other pressing tasks, he overheard Skippy on the phone reserving a particularly prestigious alongside berth the administrative detail of how this unusually complex task was achieved was lost on him, but no matter , and some other logistical arrangements the boss had demanded.
Immediately on arrival alongside during which Skippy again impressed H with his instinctive ship-handling skill , from a darkened Merc emerged the ludicrous sight of Gucci booted and suited aide Igor, with more muscles on his chiselled face than most men have on their biceps.
