Ronda Armitage Quotes

“Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr. Grinling... In the day time he rowed out to his lighthouse on the rocks to clean and polish the light.”

“Come rain... or shine he tended his light.”

“Sometimes at night, as Mr. Grinling lay sleeping in his warm bed, the ships would toot to tell him that his light was shining brightly and clearly out to sea.”

“Once she had prepared the lunch she packed it into a special basket and clipped it on to the wire that ran from the little white cottage to the lighthouse on the rocks.”

“But the lunch did not arrive. It was spotted by three scavenging seagulls who set upon it with great gusto.”

“That evening Mr. and Mrs. Grinling decided on a plan to baffle the seagulls. ‘Tomorrow I shall tie the napkin to the basket,’ said Mrs. Grinling.”

“They are a brazen lot, those seagulls.”

″‘There, there, Hamish,’ said Mrs. Grinling consolingly, ‘I’ll have a tasty piece of herring waiting for you when you arrive home.‘”

″‘Mustard sandwiches,’ chuckled Mr. Grinling. ‘A truly superb plan, my dear, truly superb.‘”

″... he felt much too sick even to notice the seagulls, let alone scare them away from the lunch.”