Ascension : Letter - Clive and Karen Brooke
Submitted by The Islander (Nathan Prince) 26.01.2006 (Article Archived on 09.02.2006)

Hi All, Just received the Islander through e-mail. You made me really jealous sat here in cold, wet Lincolnshire, UK, reading and seeing all the brave souls jumping into the sea on News Years Day

Hi All,

Just received the Islander through e-mail. You made me really jealous sat here in cold, wet Lincolnshire, UK, reading and seeing all the brave souls jumping into the sea on News Years Day. I hope it’s a tradition that will run and run or to make a pun of it jump and jump. What a pity we couldn’t see any of the faces and hence expressions of the jumpers, except the dog of course who looked as if it was going back for more. On closer inspection I did recognise one person in the pictures. Now I only know one person on your enchanting island and that is Steve Roulston from Serco and sure enough I did recognise him, he was the only one wearing trainers. Now is that because he was too drunk from the night before and thought he had put on his flippers? Was he late up for the jump and came to the pier in his carpet slippers? No, I think the real reason was that he was scared of getting a cactus thorn in his foot.

As you all know in his spare time he is the one and only CAPTAIN CACTUS.

Look forward to every Monday when the Islander lands in my inbox. Would love to visit, will be on the first flight when Easyjet starts coming to Ascension.

All the very best

Clive & Karen Brooke,

Lincoln, England.