Forum: Say Hello
14th September 2024, 22:52
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Forum: Books, Magazines, TV, Video & Publications
11th June 2024, 14:06
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Replies: 10
Views: 24,830
Marketers have said: once you publish one, you...
Marketers have said: once you publish one, you should publish another --- and another. They support each other. I've several titles self-published and see patterns that justify this statement.
Of...
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Forum: Health Issues
29th May 2024, 11:56
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Replies: 21
Views: 26,617
It's been 7 months since mine were done. I wear...
It's been 7 months since mine were done. I wear reading glasses , but can drive and watch tv without. Once, the stars were like bursting fireworks, but dim. Now they are point sources, as they should...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
19th May 2024, 22:55
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,540
Well, Varley, thanks for the detail on the...
Well, Varley, thanks for the detail on the bovines. Perhaps they would prefer to join the lost mariners of history, rather than stand in line before the bored, black-eyed hallal butcher and his nasty...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
16th May 2024, 08:38
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,540
That's a vivid story, Dave. What flag did she...
That's a vivid story, Dave. What flag did she fly? And, I wonder why the vessel sank - how far to reach shore would the cattle need to swim... the stuff of nightmares.
Today, going for the covid jab...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
15th May 2024, 13:07
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,540
I'm still tapping away at this keyboard. The...
I'm still tapping away at this keyboard. The latest chapter of unpublished book4 is a 'creative' recall of a few hours at the Eritrean port of Assab. I've posted it here, just in case any of you...
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Forum: The Radio Room
27th April 2024, 13:19
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Replies: 21
Views: 22,624
Today is Morse Code day, and the birthday of...
Today is Morse Code day, and the birthday of Samuel Morse one of the inventors of the telegraph code. I passed the Morse test at South Shields Merchant Navy College in 1955. It was the second...
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Forum: Mess Deck
24th April 2024, 19:45
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,812
Greek Shipping museum online
I stumbled across this... a virtual museum of Greek shipping:https://greekshippingmiracle.org/en/about-us/
It may interest some who recall the days of Aristotle, Stavros, and their ilk.
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Forum: Mess Deck
6th April 2024, 09:06
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,436
Ice Fields
This would get stuck in the English Channel:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-f4de435a-d215-4a7c-86e9-9b838701c993
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Forum: Books, Magazines, TV, Video & Publications
16th February 2024, 10:04
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Replies: 10
Views: 24,830
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
5th February 2024, 20:47
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,540
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
4th February 2024, 17:42
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,540
One Year On
To mark the publication anniversary of "When Are You Going Back?" Here's part of the first chapter (in which I hope to remind us of the atmosphere of those days):
From “When Are You Going Back?”...
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Forum: The Arts & Entertainment forum
28th December 2023, 23:47
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Replies: 29
Views: 30,293
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
Robert Louis Stevenson...
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman could hardly stand;
The wind was a...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
16th December 2023, 20:08
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Replies: 1,844
Views: 858,400
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
5th October 2023, 12:45
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,960
Low sea-level south of India
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/indian-ocean-gravity-hole/?fbclid=IwAR1gSyVVG940GxF-1imjTG8x6bxxT35s2CnIZgJbsshI46oeGBLXxyuxuC4
We sailed down the slope, and then climbed out of the basin....
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Forum: Historic Shipping Lines & Ships
4th October 2023, 10:02
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Replies: 0
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Forum: Mess Deck
29th September 2023, 23:14
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Replies: 16
Views: 9,432
rabbit verse
During the last war my dad's rabbits kept meat on the table. I wrote this in honour of their sacrifice:
A Rabbit's Part in Hitler's Downfall
We did our bit as well, you know
– me and my...
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Forum: Wartime Memories
6th September 2023, 09:11
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Replies: 9
Views: 12,615
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Forum: Health Issues
1st August 2023, 20:29
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Replies: 21
Views: 26,617
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Forum: Health Issues
1st August 2023, 15:02
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Replies: 21
Views: 26,617
Yesterday I had my first cataract removed and...
Yesterday I had my first cataract removed and the lens replaced with with an artificial (I'm having trouble typing this as I recover).
The new lens shows me that I've been missing the shorter...
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Forum: The Arts & Entertainment forum
15th May 2023, 14:44
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Replies: 34
Views: 12,451
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Forum: The Arts & Entertainment forum
13th May 2023, 17:58
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Replies: 34
Views: 12,451
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Forum: The Arts & Entertainment forum
11th May 2023, 09:48
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Replies: 34
Views: 12,451
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
7th May 2023, 20:44
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Replies: 500
Views: 295,800
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Forum: The Arts & Entertainment forum
1st May 2023, 15:20
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Replies: 34
Views: 12,451
1956. On a draughty West Hartlepool railway...
1956. On a draughty West Hartlepool railway station, Dad saw me off to my first ship (aged 17) with the words: 'Don't play cards on railway trains, son - and don't go with women who want your money.'...
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