28Oct08

"Hullo, Brown. Are you using your lawn-mower this afternoon?"
"Yes, I'm afraid I am."
"Splendid! Then you won't be wanting your tennis reacket--I've broken mine!"



If I had been sensured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers---Horatio Nelson