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Forum: Looking for Information on Shipmates, Ships, Family or Friends? Today, 13:19
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Posted By Varley
OM, Try Googling it. My French is not good and...

OM, Try Googling it. My French is not good and nor it the translator but it looks as if you were sailing for a company which went into administration in 2005. M. Charasse is listed as the Liquidator...
Forum: Books, Magazines, TV, Video & Publications Today, 12:56
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Views: 92
Posted By Varley
Interesting indeed. Anyone hear radio 4 this...

Interesting indeed. Anyone hear radio 4 this morning. Of the diminishing crowd celebrated at this time of year was a lady who copied German radio traffic for intelligence. The reporter mentioned that...
Forum: Mess Deck Today, 12:42
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Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Tightwad-one was on leave? We could have had the...

Tightwad-one was on leave? We could have had the A/C after all. I wondered why she'd taken on a starboard list. Taking port from port (ye-hah I found one bottle of the Rochas left yesterday) whilst...
Forum: Mess Deck Yesterday, 13:15
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Posted By Varley
As long as the groceries keep coming (note...

As long as the groceries keep coming (note importance of licensed type) I am happy to drift off. Off where is not so important but with those tightwads I/C the A/C somewhere not yet globally...
Forum: Mess Deck 25th May 2024, 14:05
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Posted By Varley
Daren't lay her up. How would any of us get an...

Daren't lay her up. How would any of us get an ENG1 to rejoin?

Don't expect me to jolly you all up. I am out of Rochas (economising until my 'pot' is out of administration) and damn Tesco is out...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 19th May 2024, 13:09
Replies: 19
Views: 2,744
Posted By Varley
Harry, I understand she was Saudi flag. There are...

Harry, I understand she was Saudi flag. There are some details on a site www.wrecksite.eu that says she 'took water after a rivet failure'.

As I remember it we were in sight of land but whether...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 15th May 2024, 15:31
Replies: 19
Views: 2,744
Posted By Varley
A good read Harry - Thank heaven's someone else's...

A good read Harry - Thank heaven's someone else's still alive here.

Can't comment on Ethiopia although know the red sea well enough not to want to be there. Three years taking the Shah's oil to...
Forum: Mess Deck 23rd April 2024, 16:47
Replies: 9,020
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Posted By Varley
Of course there's a bulb in it. I can hear it...

Of course there's a bulb in it. I can hear it rattling about when I shake it.

Bully? It's not me with the four rings.
Forum: Mess Deck 22nd April 2024, 14:17
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Depends at which end the bubbles are featuring. ...

Depends at which end the bubbles are featuring.

Top end, fine (and did some lunching Friday).

Bottom end, suggest porta and bothiebathjuice bad for gut flora/fauna (and any planned appearances...
Forum: Mess Deck 16th April 2024, 14:07
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Posted By Varley
Well. It is one explanation.

Well. It is one explanation.
Forum: Mess Deck 14th April 2024, 18:58
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Posted By Varley
I have received no requests from either Abi or...

I have received no requests from either Abi or Charlie. Is there something artistically unappealing about my genitalia?
Forum: Mess Deck 14th April 2024, 13:59
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
I had no idea that the xylophonist astronomer was...

I had no idea that the xylophonist astronomer was a connoisseur also of fizz. Even he, I suggest, would not consider the terroir of Mars suitable until he had had it tested. I don't think he was from...
Forum: Mess Deck 13th April 2024, 12:12
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Foreign fizz? Henners is the stuff. Support your...

Foreign fizz? Henners is the stuff. Support your local sheriff (or at least the compliant sheriff that is closest to you). Quite up to snuff without the need for your vile habit of adding tincture of...
Forum: Mess Deck 10th April 2024, 18:20
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the...

Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the undertaker at 3:1. Now someone else will have to buy the fizz at Friday Lunch.

Next time I'll hedge with a Yankee including Oldgit.

(Actually, despite...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th April 2024, 19:23
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
I chinesed along with my recent boss and others...

I chinesed along with my recent boss and others of the usual suspects last night (much enjoyed by all - Chinatown for those interested).

If one wants to be committed to a nice restful hospital...
Forum: Mess Deck 4th April 2024, 16:48
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Didn't Nanny tell you that scraping it only makes...

Didn't Nanny tell you that scraping it only makes it worse?

(I'll take it I can keep the Bahco and the three cell Brightstar if no news come Wednesday).
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 30th March 2024, 17:41
Replies: 6
Views: 1,247
Posted By Varley
Did you check the stability booklet before you...

Did you check the stability booklet before you set-off?
Forum: Mess Deck 25th March 2024, 17:26
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
I may have lived in the reigns of three monarchs...

I may have lived in the reigns of three monarchs now but none of those were Kings Edward I, II and III ! I Google that the place was whelmed by 1350 (although it didn't say if that was BST or proper...
Forum: Mess Deck 24th March 2024, 11:40
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon...

I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon constitutional. The boys in blue were on point-duty dolled up for ceremonial traffic duty.

Had I known HM(Qc)was due so imminently I would have waited to...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 19th March 2024, 11:09
Replies: 15
Views: 2,052
Posted By Varley
Only the clever boys got to do 'literature'. (As...

Only the clever boys got to do 'literature'. (As with Greek at St.Wilfrid's). At Reeds they no longer sought to teach the Latin even we stupids had had to take until then. Biology (dropped),...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 14:34
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He...

I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He rather steals the thunder the early, more local, institutions that came before. South Shields, the site of much good marine 'stuff', being one - if not...
Forum: Mess Deck 7th March 2024, 12:10
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
League? The school fees were surely wasted.

League? The school fees were surely wasted.
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 7th March 2024, 12:06
Replies: 1,837
Views: 627,040
Posted By Varley
Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that...

Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees"...
Forum: Mess Deck 5th March 2024, 12:52
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the...

Are you sure the insulating tape helps with the electrostimulation?
Forum: Mess Deck 26th February 2024, 10:53
Replies: 9,020
Views: 1,748,065
Posted By Varley
Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern...

Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern medicine - a Go layout would be very painful to remove.

(E-S. Indeed. Hardly Michelangelo, not on a good day anyway - he did say that he did not sculpt...
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