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The Innisfree: A Hero's Journey

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There was a time when they moored up, had few drinks and fell asleep, when they fell asleep they were facing the land, when they woke, all they could see, at first, was sea, Desi panicked and thought they had drifted out to sea, luckily it was just that they’d turned around, and the land was behind them.

They were regularly called by the river police, “the Windy Wane had broken free from her mooring and is drifting out into the Tyne again”, was how it would usually go. Actually blocked the progress of the tall ships once apparently.

There was another occasion, when his friend Colin was carrying all Desi’s tools, the tools he had had for, well, forever, and slipped and dropped them in the Tyne, never to be seen again, the tools that is, not …show more content…

“What do you think he would see as the highlights of his life?”, I asked, “The Innisfree”, “his boat”, but no, his family really, and Kaelen was the only one that could really wrap him around her little finger.

I asked what sort of things made him laugh, “himself”, I was told, he loved his own jokes, but in fairness, he was pretty funny.

“What do you think he might like to be most remembered for?” I asked; “his personality, for being the life and soul of the party, for being a great host, as long as everyone was having a good time”.

And finally, I asked “what will you remember most about him?”; When anyone called the house to speak to Maureen, and Desi answered the phone, “hang on”, he’d say, “I’ll get her, I’ll just get her out of the cupboard”, or, “she’s just in the loft”.

Or if he was bored he would ring Amy and put on a voice pretending to be some old person responding to an advert about a dog, or tell her that they had come into a bit of money and they were going to give her some, “here’s your grandma, she’ll give you the details” which, of course, grandma knew nothing

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