The sails were long ago, covered up, stripped off and packed away. Not only have we been in lockdown for these months but also in yachting shut down. Consequently, our planning and preparation has been based on the idea of a long term vacation. The polite folk in the group just smiled, indulging my "WE'RE DOOMED" prognosis. My gut feel was the most pessimistic, and I'm usually a cheery sort, and I put my money on September. Months ago, during one of our early evening beach get togethers we ran a sweep on how long "this" would last. In addition, I've even written a few more pages of my forthcoming book, Diary of a Sailing Cynic. I'm now almost half way through Indonesia. Our mid sections have muscles we didn't know about and slowly but surely, the Time Bandit video backlog is also slimming. Our Ian's online fitness classes out on the Moondeck have a trail of lost kilos leading to and fro.
Asked why, as a retired seventy something he wants a job in a tech driven business he says, "As for retirement, that's an ongoing relentless effort in creativity."īut hey, on the whole we're doing great.
#Time bandit quotes movie#
One of my favourite movie quotes, which I've used here in the past, is from Robert DeNiro in The Intern. Any more and seriously, you'd go completely nuts. Way back, as hopefully you read one time in the distant past, I mentioned, at least once, that we're in lockdown on our own private, 5* (as advertised) resort island.īut eighty six days? I now fully understand why the norm is for people to take only two week vacations.