THE SHIPPING FORECAST<br /><br />Original available on Bandcamp, ampwall etc. <br /><br />Bailey.<br />Dogger.<br />Wight.<br />German bight. <br />Southwest severe gale 9. <br />Rain, then squally showers. <br />Poor. <br />Pinstriped puffins shut the door.<br /><br />Lundy.<br />Bailey.<br />Irish sea. <br />Cromarty.<br />Variable 2-4, becoming westerly 5-7 later. <br />Wintry showers. <br />Poor. <br />Gingham sharks patrol the shore. <br /><br />Faeroes.<br />Fair Isle.<br />Forth and Tyne.<br />Northwesterly 3-5, becoming variable 2-4, then cyclonic, mainly southwesterly 5-7 later. <br />Rain and wintry showers.<br />Poor. <br />Denim cormorants know the score.<br /><br />Forties.<br />Fisher.<br />Fastnet. <br />Sole.<br />Westerly 4-6, increasing 6 to gale 8. <br />Rain. <br />Poor. <br />Hark the tartan sea eagles roar. <br /><br />North Utsire.<br />South Utsire.<br />Viking. <br />Thames.<br />West or South west 5 increasing to gale 8 at times. <br />Occasional rain in Thames. <br />Poor. <br />Shhh… the satin herring snore. <br /><br />Humber. <br />Hebrides.<br />Southeast Iceland.<br />Northerly 7 to Violent storm 11. <br />Rain. <br />Good, becoming very poor. <br />Beware, the woolen seahorses of Thor. <br /><br />Fastnet.<br />Fitzroy.<br />Biscay. <br />Rockall.<br />Southwest 3 or 4. <br />Occasional rain. <br />Moderate or poor. <br />From afar the tweed godwits soar. <br /><br />Dover.<br />Humber.<br />Trafalgar. <br />Malin.<br />Northwesterly Variable 2-4, becoming cyclonic 6 to gale 8 perhaps storm 10 later in Dover. <br />Wintry showers. <br />Poor. <br />Pas op! The Flemish fleece megalosaur. <br /><br />Portland.<br />Plymouth.<br />Shannon.<br />Biscay.<br />Southwest 1, occasionally 2. <br />Good. <br />Towelling redshanks in the hood. <br /><br />Music and lyrics : MMXIV Grüntyers / Richard Wareham<br />ISRC. NL-9FV-24-00005
