MARITIME mascot Horatio Herring finally netted his perfect catch this week after his mail order bride returned to Great Yarmouth following cosmetic surgery.
MARITIME mascot Horatio Herring finally netted his perfect catch this week after his mail order bride returned to Great Yarmouth following cosmetic surgery.
The mystery Mrs H returned from her makers, Costumes with Character, following surgery to make her face look less scary. The marriage - at the altar of advertising for Great Yarmouth's 10th maritime festival - had been postponed after her eyes were deemed too narrow, making her look more brute than
cute.
But surgery has since
been carried out to make
her eyes wider, while
small dots have been placed
in between her eyelashes
to soften her facial
features.
Festival chairman
Aileen Mobbs told the Mercury last week Horatio had been a bachelor for too long so the time had come to find the popular mascot a wife.
Local company Seajacks agreed to pay the �1,200 needed to help Horatio
find love in time for
the festival on September 5 and 6.
And talented readers have been letting their poetic thoughts flow on a maritime theme by entering poems about the sea to be read out at the Maritime Festival's closing ceremony.
Mrs Mobbs was
impressed with the
standard of the 27 entries, which spanned the age groups.
The winning poem was A Seashore Stroll, by Pearl Allard, of Jema Close, Great Yarmouth, who receives complimentary tickets to visit the Grand Turk frigate at the festival and a Maritime Festival goodie bag. Her poem is printed on this page.
The runners-up, who will receive festival goodies, are Ivy Nichols, Julie Staff, Denise Mayman and Jon W Carter.
“The entries were
extremely good. The winning entry we just thought read very nicely. It flows nicely and it is easily understood, but the runner-ups were really good as well,” Mrs Mobbs said.
This year's festival boasts
an impressive line-up of attractions along South
Quay including three tall ships, the three-masted barque Artemis, the
Grand Turk and the Jubilee Trust's Lord Nelson, one of only two boats in the world designed for wheelchair users to man.
Families will also be
able to look around the
Lydia Eva, the last steam drifter.
Gorleston-based author Ann Neve will also be at the festival, at a stand run by A Novel Idea bookshop.
She will be promoting
her latest book Footsteps
in the Sea, the sequel to
her first novel Ride Upon
the Storm, which spans
the second world war
and focuses on the Yarmouth area.
The characters from the first story are now grown up and serving on Arctic convoys, on the motor torpedo boats of HMS Midge, based at Yarmouth Fishwharf, and
on the high-speed launches of No 24 Air Sea Rescue Unit, RAF, at Baker Street, Gorleston.
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