Ladies who do

Madeira, what do you do first sample the cake or taste the wine, simple answer try both, typical Brit on holiday it works well if you dunk your cake in the wine. Shuttle buses laid on between the ship and central Funchal which takes about 15minutes and there are loads of buses laid on but it looks like Lower Upshot Bagely WI are doing a re-enactment of the Dunkirk evacuation, the blue rinse brigade are taking no prisoners, they are working in conjunction with the Kamikaze wheelchair Deaths Head Squadron who are mowing down everything in their path be it friend or foe. Seeing the carnage I decide to be part of the rearguard party and go into town with the third wave, around midday when all the obstacles and booby traps have been taken care of. The change that can come over these mild mannered ladies is frightening and some members of the ship’s security staff are still cowering in corners suffering from Post Granny Shock.  Once in town and stroll around you start to wonder was it worth it, there are only so many model donkeys, miniature wine casks and fridge magnets, this is probably a jaundiced Male stand point, as on the return elements of the 1st Airborne Shoppers regiment are load down with bags as are their beasts of burden (husbands). I wonder how many of those purchases will end up in the backs of cupboards on White Elephant Stalls or be re-gifted?