Yuri's Night Celebrated In The Middle of the Pacific

Berrimilla Down Under Mars Status Report 13 April 2008

"We spoke on the satphone to Leroy and Karen for Yuri's night. Interesting change of circumstances - when Pete and I first spoke to Leroy, he was up there hurtling around in his concatenation of tin cans and plumbers tubing and we were on a speaker phone in the Falklands, at Arlette Betts' house. This time, we were in the vee-hicle, by no means hurtling though, and Leroy and Karen were on the speaker phone."

Berrimilla Down Under Mars Status Report 12 April 2008

"One small sip............

One small sip for humankind, one huge sip for Yuri. We thought a Consultation in his memory at lunchtime would be appropriate and it was. We have 3 versions of Dr Cooper's medicinal compound this time - one brewed by Pete, one by Steve and one by Jasper - and we think that with proper abstemiousness (abstention? or maybe that's just for the pollies)the supply will get us to Dutch. There is a small quantity of emergency rocket fuel as well, just in case."