Roger said do you know any stories about dolphins and I did know a story about dolphins because I'm a classicist and I spend all my time reading Greek and Latin which is far too hard for any of you but one of the things that really used to delight me - there's a Roman poet called Ovid and Ovid tells a story about Dionysus - I don't think you know about Dionysus - a Greek God - the Romans called him Bacchus - Michaelangelo did a painting of him and in Micaelangelo's painting you see him there with his face red because he's been drinking too much and he has a crown of vine leaves on, which are over to one side and he's got a goblet which is just beginning to dribble and his lips are stained purple because Dionysus - Bacchus - is the God that brought us the grape and not just the grape - all those things that go bump in the night - all of those strange things that escape evade reason - all of those things that happen - that bubble up and break through reason - he's the God of theatre isn't he? - of masks and strange - anyway Ovid says that there were some Greek sailors - rough men on a trading vessel and they were trading amongst the Greek Islands and it came to evening and as happened in those times they stopped - they put themselves ashore to spend the night on the beach and when they woke up in the grey morning they saw a little boy under a hedge - the little boy was waking up and his lips were stained purple and he was a little bit drunk - a beautiful little boy - and these Greeks being Greeks thought we could get this boy and we could sell him so they said to him would you like to come aboard our ship and the little boy said no - so - well are you sure you wouldn't like - he said where are you going and they said where would you like to go and he said Nexos because that's where I live and they said we're going to Nexos and the little boy got aboard the boat and off they went and the little boy said - he's out at the front of the boat - and the little boy said this isn't the way to Nexos and they said oh it is but we have to go a circuituous route and after a bit the little boy said well this still isn't the way to Nexos and they said oh don't worry we'll soon be there and then the third time the little boy said... this isn't the way to Nexos... and they said don't worry we'll take you where we want to go and as they said that they heard a crackly sound and the mast of the ship began to splinter and throw off little sprouts and the mast of the ship began to turn - to change into a great vine loaded with grapes and the oars that the men were pulling became pliant and floppy and they turned into ivy and when they looked up at the little boy he was surrounded on his bench where he sat by dreadful and cruel monsters - tigers and lions and panthers and on his head was a crown of vine leaves and of grapes...