News stories from around the world.

Thursday 4 June 2008  Skank Pubications, Boston, USA jottings on my Elderberry from the fanside…..

“THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR SONATAS were scene from Battery Point, Brixham overlooking the Torbay, England – “home to a million Traffic Wardens”. Keep a full tank, move on or pay the bitches is the Torbay Tourist Board’s catchy slogan…

The European Elections were overshadowed by what was to come………….

Tonight’s Sonata World Series II start was the most breathtaking of ANY sporting event ever seen on this, or any other known, planet. Surpassing even the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008. This event I attended with my lovely wife Polly and her sister, Liggami.

A small step for a man but huge leap for yachting to paraphrases someone who go the words wrong on his first trip to the mnoo”

The crowd had to be held back at the finish as a fan swept down the slopes casting daisy chains at the victors and screaming pure joy…….some ____ leaped into the sea.  One fan, WD,(not her initials and not the wrong way round and not the correct gender at all) had to be resuscitated but refused to go to Torbay Hospital (who can blame her) because she “wanted to be in the club when the heroes marched in”

Shall copy later on my Strawberry…….

Salavador Propylene – Yachting correspondent of the New Yorke Tribune (inc Bronx Cheer gazette)

Friday 5 June 2009-06-06

Fanzine Launch. The apiano! Fanzine, 4PUFFS, goes Global. Outselling The Big Issue in Totnes, Fore St, Totnes, England. 4 puffs will be available on pod cast soon and the web designers are working on stunning photo capture of apiano!’s pre-launch bottom – exclusive pictures of your favourite Snottie.

Western Mooring News

Sat 6 June 2009 Geneva, Switzerland.

All legal proceedings on hold but lawyers await instructions following the TOTAL RECALL debacle last Thursday when 6 Sonatas were OCS at the start – 4 boats, 2 Franks, Bottyburp and Toyota Yaris 1.4i could not be seen, made invisible by the blanketing of Blues and Simply Alto.

Paris, France. R Smith and Pier Cardin meet in secret talks about the new look for apiano! – “Definitely, absolutely, positively, unquestionably, certainly, categorically NOT PINK” demands Mike (you’re toast) Inness…... so it’s a pale crimson /red blusher then with white piping. St Tom to be consulted about neckline, darts, cloth bias and selvage.

Obama briefs Clinton – “ We missed out on soccer but I’ll be damned if The US of A is going to be sidelined in the greatest show on Earth – see to it Hirally!!!!!”

“ And get me Charlton Heston on the phone….” An unnamed Whitehouse source. Washington DC. 2009/6/6

Rule changes on the cards - l’homme de trois noms to nominate St Tom to co-ordinate all spinnaker colors with crew “costume” designs. This is just a rumour but you heard it first right here…..

Your Sonata Europe correspondent …. still stuck in Monaco, France feeding the ducks.