Angels in black can refer to two types of women. The first are young girls who dress in tight, black attire and therefore provoke males to sweat , when they are employed as serving wenches in a pub or those who sit on benches in the middle of the night expecting some middle age men to suddenly come along and engage them in conversation leading to a possible night of passion and associated free board and lodging in a boat that just happens to be moored at a dwarfs or stones throw away.
As was our bad luck, we met both of these types of ladies at Goring. The serving Angels plied us with copious amounts of liquor throughout the evening and the seated angels we met sat on a riverside bench as we walked home who tried to worm their way into our boat for something to warm them up. Apparently they were on foot and making their way to Pangbourne late at night. The Captain remembering that he had no rum or brandy to get these girls warm and the fact that two into three won’t go and he was not prepared to just watch or listen or both to the antics of the other two lucky crew members, gently let all parties down by saying that “My boys have a real long, hard day tomorrow and by the look of you two girls you could do with a few light years of beauty sleep”. The younger girl Sam added “I don’t suppose you’ve ever looked in a mirror then?”
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