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Levuka port town, the former capital of Fiji. cabana for the last few days of my late husband did indeed have only
island sojourn. the one leg. And perhaps was not all
and had to recoup his losses after The New Zealand skipper of that chipper about the skipper being
going bankrupt. a fishing boat, in Levuka for the there. Dora patted my arm and said
I was invited to stay with Duncan season’s fishing, moved into the he obviously didn’t mind me living
on a subsequent visit to Levuka and quarters I recently vacated at Dora’s in the house, otherwise I would have
narrowly missed Sir Peter’s visit. I house. And hurriedly left in the had a visit too. And perhaps a rap
could have hitched a ride in the litter middle of the night wearing only over the head from his crutch for
used to lug Sir Peter up the 199 steps. his shorts. He had been awakened good measure.
There were several Brits on the by a tap tapping on the floor. He The skipper had hooked a large
island embroiled in a bout with related how he had seen a ghost shark and I asked him for its jaws.
red tape for Australian citizenship. looming over him with a menacing A surprise for Jean-Paul. An ideal
Image: ITV Studios. was a good choice to wait out the from the house he noticed the at school and perhaps invent a tall
expression. In his hurried retreat present for a boy to ‘show and tell’
Unable to apply in Australia, Fiji

‘apparition’ had only one leg.
story. I buried the grisly jaws so that
process under the tropical sun.
When I visited Dora a couple of ants could chew off the remaining
I had moved out of Dora’s hilltop
Sir Peter Ustinov meets Duncan. eyrie and stayed at a beachside days later, she explained that her flesh and then hung them on the line