Fascinated by ship wrecks and stories of the sea? How do these ships end up where they do? What becomes of shipwrecks? As a child did you used to explore the seaside? And intrigued by what you found. In the North Island on the edge of the Kāpiti Coast we used to pretend we were Rose and Jack from ‘Titanic’ and stand on the bow of a local shipwreck and dream of faraway lands.
Ships and shipwrecks have always been a point of fascination
I cannot find a valid explanation
Learning about the history of ships that sail no more
The majority of them swept up on rocks or ashore
Like the ‘Wahine’ on April 10, 1968
Can you remember that fateful date?
In Wellington harbour she finished her days
In the early hours near Seatoun, along the bays
Then there was the ‘Hydrabad’ on her way from Adelaide
Becoming a victim of a shipwreck raid
This sailing ship on a stormy voyage
With a couple of crew, wives and civies on this passage
On her way to a destination
But nature had her intervention
Heading up the Kāpiti Coast
With Captain Homewood playing host
The strong winds pushed her in
The poor ship out of control, on a spin
Landing on a sandy bank
The hull hitting the sandbar with a clank
They tried to refloat her, they gave it a crack
To get the sailing ship back on track
But alas the winds were far too strong
The weather conditions for sailing were completely wrong
She had now beached herself too close to shore
Her days at sea were no more
All the escapades of refloating her taken in by local folk
Anything of value, the vandals went for broke
Today over a century later there she lays
Buried beneath the sand where no one plays
But back in the days as a child
I played on her, running wild
Climbing over her broken mast
Happy memories of the past
Standing up the front with arms out wide
Down in the ships cabin we would play and hide
Walking along the old beams from starboard
Then 1, 2, 3 jump, now over board
She used to protrude high out of the sand
For miles down the beach, you could see her stand
That was the days before Health and Safety came into play
When you could run havoc, night and day
Childhood memories of being shipwrecked out at sea
Adventures and innocent fun and home by tea
Make sure you hold onto those memories and relive those days
Happy times playing at the beach and around the bays
Continuing on from our Narcissism and Gaslighting snapshot in Part I.
You are SOOO Sensitive… I never said that….
Cat in Sharks with Lipstick enjoys her little gaslighting escapades and making her team feel they have got it all wrong, mis-understood and they are the reason for the ‘stuff ups’ and not achieving the team’s KPIs, targets, blowing the budget…
It would appear the words ‘Narcissism’ and ‘Gaslighting’ are bandied around nowadays more than back in the day. Surely it’s always been around, I mean ‘Gas lights’ are a thing of the past, so obviously these character traits and behaviour have been around forever. Just people are dropping the ‘N’ bomb and ‘G’ bomb more regularly. One of our leading ladies, Cat, the HR Manager in ‘Sharks with Lipstick’ displays a lot of the below traits. Check out the definition for Narcissism below and the little ditty which portrays her every whim and way.
“People have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others.”
Narcissism seems to ooze from the HR Manager’s lips
While at a meeting she spouts off her trivia tips
Pretending she gives a dam about her team’s health and well being
Instead leaving an undercurrent and awful feeling
Trying to gaslight and apportion blame
Angling into making her staff feel guilt and shame
Never taking responsibility for her words and actions
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