| ... but some seem to be maintained still. We are sorting ourselves out when a young fellow in a canoe paddles over to speak to us. He tells us that Full Moon has been sighted and recognised by some of the older folks ashore; his conversation is so sprinkled with first and second cousins, second marriages and exes and in-laws and step-relations, that I'm completely lost after fifteen minutes! But the gist is that he's only about two degrees away from Jon and Full Moon; his parents' generation knew Kenny and Ray -- and Malcolm, and he and Jon have several acquaintances in common. We inquire after the lady whom Malcolm loved and lived with when he worked here, and are told that, sadly, she is hospitalised and not doing well. |
