18.1—Field Trip to the North Sea

Today, dear followers, our writer could say there's no official posting due to a respiratory ailment and a sore foot that required several exhausting trips into Portland this last week...or that the cat walked across the keyboard and deleted her homework. But let's just say that for a variety of reasons, some of them true, we're going on a one-minute field trip off the coast of Northumberland via an online Italian newspaper. The headline: The scuba diver and the seal: sweet caresses in the North Sea.

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