Goodbye Saga Rose
The end of Saga Rose's farewell cruise, which began on the 30th October 2009, was nigh as she returned to Southampton on the 6th December.  Disappointingly they had her scheduled to dock at 6.30am.  The weather was atrocious, and had been for weeks.  I had intended to go and get her coming home but the lack of transport put pay to that.  It turned out to be a lucky escape with the wind occasionally hitting force 10 and some really heavy downpours.  As things turned out she was passing the house at the time she was meant to dock so still have a little over half an hour to go.  As she was disappearing around the houses I heard this opening line on the radio: "Hey, did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world?"  She was indeed a beautiful girl and it was a shame I was watching from the window.  But I would go and see her later that morning.  Fay was coming over from the Isle of Wight, since she was unable to the next day.  This would probably be the last time she would see her.  The provisional departure had changed from the 6th to 13th some weeks earlier yet towards the end of the previous week, it was now the 7th.  The movements, updated on the 5th, also included her for 5pm.  This would be it then.  Whoever they'd sold her to weren't wasting any time.  But what would be her fate?  Fay arrived on the banana for 11.30am and we headed to Mayflower Park.  It may have been sunny but it was freezing and blustery.  Fay bumped into a friend and had a chat then we took our own photos.
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