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Has anyone actually confirmed he is big or, indeed, has the hairyarse to go with it?

Save on that travel warrant. You can hold on to that plastico as the new machine's in and I was fed Friday and Saturday so only the five day scum covered irons and crocks to finish off in it. Maybe he can be assigned to E-S's nambypambys' alleyway.

I am not sure the MNOPF TIC (Trustee in Charge) has his financial priorities right. While a past IMarEST treasurer remarked that his books would look much better if a plague carried off pensioners by the bucketload Mr.Murphy hoped we would have a long and healthy life. Nonetheless seminars on the net I may continue to attend but should there be a seaside outing by coach or chartered aircraft arranged for us I may choose to miss it.

(Recent intelligence reaches me of genuine distress amongst both sea staff and office staff over crew changes and expired contracts. There has to be something considerably more nambypambyish about sailors who cannot endure tours the length of which we would have considered normal nothing. Not all of us had good runs to compensate either. 1977. Six months no port and only a glimpse of Libya at one end of the route. To boot all Spanish except me and my junior and the food was shite too. I am happy to say the booze was excellent, a legitimate gripe for today's sailors (would the the nambypamby drink, though? I wonder).

I turned out undamaged (UNDAMAGED I TELL YOU! UNDAMAGED).