Oh well, if we are going to be balanced then I shall have to tell a little story about my unnerving experience a few weeks ago.
I was standing out on deck on my ferry when there was a loud detonation above my head and I was showered with what felt like bits of metal. I climbed the ladder to the next deck and looked around, thinking maybe somebody was messing around. Nobody there.
Came back down and looked around on the deck where I had been standing. There were lots of little bits of blue and white shell lying about.
A seagull must have dropped a shellfish from a great height to smash it on the deck and get to the morsel inside. It had hit the railing on the deck above me and covered me in shrapnel. If it had fallen a couple of feet closer and I had looked up, it would have had my eye out.
See, I can do balance too (sometimes).
