If the fridge did sink, it would also be a considerable inconvenience to bathers who would have to learn the exact position of the wrecked fridge or risk theagony of their toes ramming into its rusting metal shell. In the future, it might even appear on naval charts of these waters, novitiate navigators baffled by the small white cuboid marked as a hazard just off the shore.

If the fridge did sink, it would also be a considerable inconvenience to bathers who would have to learn the exact position of the wrecked fridge or risk the agony of their toes ramming into its rusting metal shell. In the future, it might even appear on naval charts of these waters, novitiate navigators baffled by the small white cuboid marked as a hazard just off the shore.

It had been done, the fridge had surfed, and what is more I had photographic evidence, provided I didn’t screw up with the film again.

Have you played tennis on that tennis court?’ I asked.‘Oh, don’t talk to me about tennis,’ he complained, ‘my kids have been dying tohave a game ever since we got here, but they can’t’‘Why not?’‘There aren’t any tennis balls on the island.’‘You’re joking.’‘I’m not. Not one. The shop’s run out and the guy who was supposed to bring some out from the mainland forgot’Island life encapsulated.

Running twenty-six miles is no fun.I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.