Home from the high seas daughter #2 drops anchor

The Prodigal Daughter has returned, safe and sound, after a five-month tour of duty on the world's biggest cruise ship as it floats around the Caribbean, entertaining kids while their parents take full advantage of their drinks packages.

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We're guessing Daughter #2 has the taste for life at sea now, as she's already signed up for what will be her third stint which starts in mid-October and runs until next spring - and is already mentioning a fourth, this time closer to home around the Mediterranean.

To be honest, we haven't seen that much of her since we picked her up from Manchester Airport last Sunday. A long overnight flight from Miami, a seven-hour layover at Heathrow and then a delayed short hop up to Manchester meant she'd been awake for 35 hours. Life-threatening when you get to our age, merely hallucinatory when you're 23 and made of Kevlar.