@BigJackBrass wrap self in bubble wrap and drink medicinal tea from a travel mug.

@Kendoyle @BigJackBrass Iced medicinal tea (scalds). With a straw.

@RogerBW @Kendoyle It's a dice roll, chaps, not an augury.

@BigJackBrass @Kendoyle Spoken like a man who hasn't noticed the black cat crossing his path. (Probably hoping for food.)

@RogerBW @Kendoyle Black cats are lucky, and I'm especially lucky to have mine.

@BigJackBrass @RogerBW they are actually seen as good luck in Norway.

@Kendoyle @RogerBW Same in Britain on the whole, especially with sailors and actors. The universal notion that they are bad luck is primarily an American thing, but of course it spreads because of the US dominance in film and TV, a bit like Halloween as a costume party with pumpkins.

@BigJackBrass @Kendoyle The history of ships' cats is very under-documented, perhaps because it was often unofficial. @garius has an episode of #UntitledHistory about it.