Thames the breaks

Living by the Thames on a cracking day like today is great. Everyone's in a great mood and the banks are lined by smiling faces enjoying the sunshine. Quite why so many people are off on a Friday I don't know, but I didn't worry about questioning them all.

I walked home from town along the river, which was lined with more boats than usual. Remembering the email Murta sent me this week, I thought it would be a good idea to check the names of them all as I passed. Low and behold, one of them yielded a banger:



Incase you cant quite read it, this particular vessel is called π 'n' Mash. Oh yes, we like a good maths gag here, don't you worry about that. When I was at school, we had a slightly portly maths teacher. One day, a classmate (who shall remain nameless for his own safety - Mr Peck was a bit of a monster as well as a tubby statistician) drew the pi symbol in chalk (yes chalk, it was a traditional school, OK?) all over the blackboard. His words when he walked in were "I'll let that one go as it's a maths joke."

The same couldn't be said a week later when another lad left a half-eaten pork pie on his desk. No siree Bob.

Unfortunately there weren't any other good'uns floating around for me today, but one boat did catch my eye a bit further down the way. It wasnt it quite as good nick as Pi 'n' mash was though..



I know what you're thinking. "What's the sign say there, Seano?" Well, don't worry, I have that covered..



May need bail out!? I think you can drop the "may" Gordon, me old mucker. She's a goner! Even the coots won't go near it and I've seen them nesting further up the Thames between the legs of passed-out pisshead!

No boom, indeed.