Chris Groves – Privilege of giving out Dolphins (Having a bucket nearby)

Simon: I thought there’d been some problems with people not catching the Dolphins in their teeth (laughs).

There’s always been some stories about that and more fool the person that doesn’t catch the Dolphins properly (laughs). But there have always been a few splutterers if you like who’ve choked a bit.

Whether that’s on the Dolphins or rum I’m not completely sure. I know that one of the things that did tend to be quite a large slug of rum, a good two fingers as we say, up the glass, and some people don’t get on with rum as well as others, and so certainly when I was in Command and I was giving out Dolphins to my ship’s company, which is a great thing to do, one of the real, real privileges of Command, I would always have a bucket alongside just in case.