Large Fierce Mammal

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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolute nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing… about in boats — or with boats. In or out of ’em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you’d much better not.” ~ Rat (The Wind in the Willows)

Mrs. LFM and I enjoy time spent together on and in the water, and particular by canoe. This here article connects with a song my mother told me about when I was a bairn, and that I only actually got to hear sung by anyone around 1982 when Jimmy Buffett performed it on a segment of the Second City Television (SCTV) comedy series called The Fishin’ Musician, starring the late and great John Candy as Gil Fisher, owner and operator of Scuttlebut Lodge. Word was, ol’ Gil couldn’t stand the taste of fish, but loved catchin’ ’em!

So here it is folks – Jimmy Buffett singing the classic Slow Boat to China, a song I have since learned to do a credible job of singing myself, always with Mrs. LFM in mind.