The Shipping Forecaster…
Fitzroy Bailey met Shannon Malin in Trafalgar Square when they were both in their Forties, then got married on a narrow boat on the Thames, wearing Fairisle jumpers, although hers was traditionally Wight in colour. The wedding feast was Dover Sole and the honeymoon was spent in the Hebrides, where their jumpers came in useful. They danced to Rockall through the night…
Both had been born in South-East Ireland of Viking descent, although they had both struggled with seasickness when they first crossed the Irish Sea to England.
They would live as a married couple in a house made from Portland stone, situated near the Humber Bridge but they both came to love the Newcastle culture, especially the music of Lindisfarne and particularly the song ‘Fog On The Tyne’.
Their first child was a girl, who they named Lundy because she was conceived on a Monday during a Paris holiday…
Fitzroy worked on a trawler out of Hull and was a Fisher of cod and halibut but he loved his football and although he supported Plymouth Argyle, he had actually qualified to play football for the Faroes, through one of his grandparents.
Shannon stepped Forth as a carer for an elderly lady from Berlin called Frida Cromarty. The old lady had once married a crabber from Hartlepool but to be fair her bark was worse than her German Bight. Shannon’s part-time job was to improve the world wide web connection for the area, creating a Fastnet…
The couple’s neighbours were the Utsires but the wife had a bit of a big North & South, though the husband’s comic verse, his Dogger-el was famous from Barrow to Biscay…
And that ends the shipping forecast for all 31 areas…
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