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A bottle washed up on Mindil Beach , picked up by a long grasser , delivered in a cleft stick to the Little Darwin shipping reporter , contained a surprising message from missing Bulldust Diary columnist / illustrator Peter Burleigh , informing us that his silence is due to the fact that he , sporting a made in China French-type beret, is responsible for maintaining the bilge pumps aboard the impressive looking vessel (above) on the River Yonne , heading for Dijon. Obviously seasick, Burleigh’s billet ended, "Arrrgh,mateys!" We have alerted French security.