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A FISHY STORY
Hi, Jack here. No Flashback this week, as I am right at this moment in Italy. But I would like to share with you a tale from my Penguin past.
It goes something like this...
Around fifteen years ago, a Royal Navy ship based in Plymouth set sail for the Antarctic and a stop over in The Falkland Islands. When the ship got to the Falklands, the crew had a few days to walk around and see the natural beauty. And of course, the penguins.
Anyway one of the chefs from the ship was walking around looking at the penguins and he stumbled across a dead one. Because of the cold, it was perfectly preserved and being a keen collector, he decided that the penguin would look great stuffed and mounted in his front room.
So after smuggling the dead penguin back on board, he stuck it in the deep freeze with the intention of sneaking it back off when back in Plymouth and taking it to a taxidermists. All went well until a few weeks later when just as the ship was approaching Plymouth, the ship's tannoy announced that HM Customs and Exiles would be soon on board to do a sweep of the ship. They would be looking for contraband items.
So chef shit himself. He knew that he would be in the shit big time if he got caught with a dead penguin in with the food in the freezer. So being a quick thinking chap he took the dead penguin and chucked it over the side.
The next evening, the Plymouth Evening Herald announced to its many readers that a penguin had somehow swum all the way from the Antarctic to Plymouth and thus died of exhaustion when it arrived here and was then washed up on the shore at Plymouth. By this time of course it was fully defrosted...
More penguin tales from me soon
See you next week for a Flashback
Up the Boro
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