...back in November, but somehow managed to get myself sidetracked. 
These are images of Cardiff's memorial to the unsung heroes who gave their lives to ensure this country didn't starve during WW2. Seamen of the Merchant Service put their lives on the line day after day with little or no protection in some of the worst conditions imaginable. It is hard for many of us to appreciate just how hard life can be at sea, with or without a wolf-pack of submarines waiting to pick you off...
Sadly it doesn't look as though too many people remembered the Merchant Service this year, does it?
Not-Herneschase
We had supper on a trading boat now a dry-dock cafe in Picton. It had all the paperwork and log-books on display from its days at sea and photographs too. It was shocking to see what even they, as merchant seamen, had to endure just to deliver goods from South to North Island. Imagine dealing with that in a wartime situation.