Jinnie’s Story

The meeting planning the press release broke up once the story to be told was agreed, and Alan’s press officer was tasked with producing the approved version to be released to the press. Alan was [more…]

Today Jinnie was finally going to go with George to shoot on the Police range at Hendon. It had taken a while to organise. This was mainly because the Police had taken ages to establish [more…]

Jinnie stepped off the Virgin flight to Montreal, passed through immigration, and headed for the WestJet internal connection to Ottawa. Travel had told Jinnie that Virgin had just launched a new service to Montreal and [more…]

The next morning was Saturday and Izzy woke early with her head in a whirl; she could hardly believe everything that had happened in the past week, had it all been a dream? Feeling the [more…]

The last full day of the cruise was a sea day as the ship chugged the 150 miles from Martinique to Barbados very slowly. The twins spent the morning by the pool with everyone else, [more…]

Izzy recovered from her surprise at the proposal of marriage very quickly, and replied, “Yes, of course.” The rest of the table burst into cheers, which quickly turned to applause, and the surrounding tables, seeing [more…]

Boxing Day was Sint Maarten, a curious, small island, half of which was Dutch, and the other half was French and called Saint Martin. But the Britannia put into Philipsburg, which was on the Dutch [more…]

The next day was not only another perfect Caribbean day, but it was Christmas Eve, and the twins knew from experience that Father Christmas arrived on board in the late afternoon. So, in the planning [more…]

After dinner, the twins begged Jinnie to let them stay up for the sail-away from Barbados. As the sailing time was set for 20:00 and it was nearly 19:30 when they finished their meal, Jinnie [more…]