All At Sea

I just finished listening to All At Sea (from The Moth podcast) with comedian Tim FitzHigham, and it makes me so happy to live in the UK. Where else would you have someone rowing in a bathtub and getting this kind of support for it?! I recommend you listen to the whole story, but here’s a taste:

The second problem is that half of the English Channel turns out to be owned not by Great Britain but by the French. Now, I wrote to the French government and I said, “Now this is what I’m going to do: I’m going to row the English Channel in a bathtub. And they were kind, and they were generous, and they were helpful. They sent me tons of stuff to read. And all the time they were going in to the French Parliament and passing a new clause in the Shipping Act of France making it illegal to row a bathtub in French water. So what I did is I went to the Ministry of Transport in Whitehall and I said, ” Now this is what we’re going to do gentlemen: we are gonna register my bath as a registered British ship.” And to my shock, horror, and amazement, they said, “Yeah, fair enough Tim, that’s a good plan, yeah.”