Amazing! Miracle! Were two words that sprang to mind when I began to read that someone somehow had floated a previously unknown island from the depths of the Arctic across the oceans to spend a few days with us moored off shore at Bowleaze Cove.

I looked at the calender, just to check that it wasn’t April Fools Day, no, just as I thought, it is July 25.

So, further investigation was required as I wanted desperately to witness this 21st century miracle. Like all of you, I have thrown countless pebbles into seas all round this coast, but each one had unsurprisingly sunk.

So how could this land mass which was being referred to as a continent exist?

My opinion (note, my opinion) is that it is a con in the name of art.

A floating pontoon, carrying a few sacks of stones, albeit from the icy wastes of ‘up North’made to resemble a floating island does not constitute a new uncharted island. What saddens me, is that people are actually signing up to be associated with it and as such, feel they will be important enough to help create a constitution for this fictional place.

Oh, and one last thing, in their mobile embassy (stop laughing) they have memorabilia of things which might have landed up on this created land mass, along with a can of melted ice.

You’ve got to hand it to them, they must have seen us coming.

C HOBBS, Doncaster Road, Weymouth