Tuesday 16 February 2016

Vote leave to bring back Finisterre

Listening to Desert Island Discs I discovered that Dame Judi Dench and I have two things in common.
Not only do we share a fondness for horse racing, but we also are both great at acting find listening to the shipping forecast oddly comforting.
I am not sure that it actually serves much purpose from a seafaring point of view anymore. Don't yachting types, admirals and ships' captains get all the information on the weather and sea conditions from satellites and computers these days? There is even a rumour (urban myth I suspect) that the shipping forecast is only broadcast as part of our civil defence programme, in that if it ceases it is some kind of secret message to those those who need to know that Putin/ISIS/The Donald have actually landed a cruise missile on London.
After midnight the shipping forecast helps me get to sleep. In the morning I can dozily drift in and out consciousness, dreaming about our wonderful UK coastline.
In her Desert Island Disc interview Dame Judi revealed something that I only realised when she mentioned it. The wonderful area Finisterre, has been replaced by the less dramatic FitzRoy.
Some quick research reveals this change was forced on us in 2002 as a result of a dastardly plot by Eurocrats. 
Only one conclusion can be drawn from this - Vote Leave to bring back Finisterre. Maybe even Dame Judi might do a Sir Michael Caine and campaign for it.

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