On a blustery autumn day in a quiet street, a liver and white English Springer Spaniel walks close beside a white woman in her seventies in a buttoned raincoat and headscarf, leaves swirling around them, with bending trees kept at a distance in the park behind.

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Crossing Cancelled

When a gale blows in, the ferry stays in harbour. The board says CROSSING CANCELLED, passengers grumble into their coffee, and nobody thinks the captain is a coward. The sea isn’t only rough today. It’s unpredictable, and that’s the part no captain can plan for.

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