Google-whacked?

My (probably somewhat imperfect) understanding of what constitutes a Google-whack is that it is the entry of one's own name into Google and it only coming up with one link......

This may have just happened to us.....

If you have a look at the first comment on the previous post, 'JustDroppinBy' would seem to have Googled 'The Mighty Pippin' having got the name through a none-too-pleasant dream......

This led them, presumably via a Google-whack, to us.

Blimey.

I have no problem with dreams or dreamers.

In fact, those who interrupt, discourage or scoff at dreams rather annoy me, much in the way Samuel Taylor Coleridge must have been really quite pissed off with the man from Porlock....(though I don't and never will have any truck with the misuse of opiates...you should have just said no, Sam....)

That aside, I feel it incumbent on me to clear up a couple of misconceptions:

Pippin is our boat, not a giant man-eating caterpillar, and according to The Pocket Other Place Dictionary, 'pippin' means...."(sl)an excellent person or thing".

So, a lovely name for our boat. (Even if we didn't christen her ourselves; thanks there to her original owners, Jenny and Rich.)

Possibly not so apt an appellation for the giant pupae of our blog visitor's nightmare, though...

Also, Pippin is just plain old ordinary work-a-day 'Pippin' most of the time.

She only turns into The Mighty Pippin when people are in trouble or danger, need feeding, rescuing, towing, taking in (to a hostelry) or putting out (if on fire) &c &c....

It's a sort of Super-Hero thing shared with the likes of Bob Parr, who only turns into Mr Incredible in similar circumstances.

Just thought I ought to clear that one up.....