ALL AT SEA

 March 19th at the Boston Tea Party in Ringwood - but who knows how our tellers will interpret the theme?

Madeleine is headlining in the second half - but will she go for a tale of the briny deep, or take it all metaphorically?

Mariners are well known for spinning yarns, but we can be all at sea without ever leaving dry land!

We can be taken aback, on our beam-ends, have trouble keeping our heads above water, or be, like whisky in the US, on the rocks.

And it may be even harder to weather a storm in a tea-cup than a full-blown gale!

Well, we'll just have to wait for the evening itself to find out which way the wind is blowing, and whether we should batten down our hatches.

But I'd suggest you should heave to until the last story's been told!