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Old 17th March 2020, 15:55
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I am led to believe that Varley has been in secret communication with the Superintendent ashore regarding the ongoing crisis and effective countermeasures. My spy advises the the GD will be STUFT within the next day or two for use as a CCCC (go on work that out) for Boris or as I prefer to refer to him by his native American indian name "Walking Eagle" which translates as "big fat bird so full of shit it can't fly"

So there we have it lads, our future is assured on this long term charter provided nobody coughs, farts or sneezes
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Old 17th March 2020, 16:40
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Cantrell and Cochrane Cordial Carrier. (Well they have OJ tankers in Ijsselhaven).
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Old 17th March 2020, 16:54
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Rest easy. I thought the inclusion of cordial meant non-alcoholic. The interweb suggests it is just another purveyor of bothiebath abuse juice. Probably lifts paint like the others.
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Old 20th March 2020, 12:32
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Coronovirus Case Coffin Carrier?
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Old 20th March 2020, 14:45
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Coronavirus Cough Control Centre (NOT as good as David's I admit)
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Old 20th March 2020, 19:33
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BBC news reports Lord V arrested for failing to Self-Isolate. Punishment will be 3 months in jail or 6 of the best.
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Old 21st March 2020, 11:29
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Sadly we birch no more. He's probably safer inside than being at the mercy of an angry bogrolleless mob baying for pasta and threatened with pub closure. (We now have two confirmed cases - both acquired off Island it is thought. We are still only advised to stay away from hospitality but this is not yet mandated).

(Have just read we have a new acronym over here. PIPs - Potentially Infected People. Pip, pip).
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Old 23rd March 2020, 17:14
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Sadly we birch no more.
Now, there is a commercial opening, a whole industry could be developed.
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Old 23rd March 2020, 18:27
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13 cases today and locked down. The nine-tailed cat not the birch.

Wine Cellar chaps tell me that alcohol is not being classed as essential WRT freight - what hell has this speck of genetic material wrought?
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Old 23rd March 2020, 21:08
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Tell your Wine Cellar chaps that alcohol is not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that.
Do you have your own Sommelier in Chateau V?
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Old 24th March 2020, 12:14
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made an emergency run ashore to Tesco for vital injuneering supplies, beer and crisps, they said all you need is a mask and gloves but the feckers lied. Everybody else had clothes on and I am now barred from Tesco for life.
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Old 24th March 2020, 12:17
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Tell your Wine Cellar chaps that alcohol is not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that.
Do you have your own Sommelier in Chateau V?
Of course.

(But I keep the key!)
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Old 24th March 2020, 13:04
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Shirley the mask was well big enough to cover all other wee bits and pieces. You're bragging again, just like your stories about the Titanic and Esso Ulidia. Tesco's indeed, what's wrong with M&S? You are a cheapskate and in danger of giving us all a bad name.
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Old 24th March 2020, 14:14
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Surely Ulidia was Groucho's (and it was Hesperus not Titanic).
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Old 25th March 2020, 18:43
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...giving us all a bad name.
We don't care.
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Old 28th March 2020, 11:57
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anyone getting cabin fever yet?
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Old 28th March 2020, 12:03
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Of course. It will only go away when we get MIJMA from Port State.
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Old 28th March 2020, 12:49
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MIJMA? Would that be a Code 17?
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Old 28th March 2020, 13:27
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It is/was in the international code of signals for the asking and granting of pratique. An obscure document even in my day and neither the old man (the youngest deck officer incidentally) nor I had a clue when the Yugoslavian authorities at Koper answered his plain language request for free pratique (Tilapa, 1972). However I now do have a couple of copies in different date and national editions.

(This isolation could easily have caused me to code 17 last night. I must be more careful. More than one bottle of port makes one a bit covid-19ish in the AM. Not to mention falling down stairish).
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Old 28th March 2020, 23:30
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ah yes the dreaded Vino Collapso gets us all in the end Mr Varley. Mind you, if you stick to the better vintages its not so bad.
It just so happens I have a few bottles of very rare vintage Port left if you would care for one later. some half decent cigars too if memory serves me right
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Old 29th March 2020, 12:35
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some half decent cigars too if memory serves me right
Your memory does not serve you well. You know in your heart of hearts that The Hon V does not do "Half Decent", are you proposing he puffs on a King Edward? Surely not.
There are others on this Fine Lady who would smoke a Woodbine if it was rolled on the thigh of a nubile Cuban woman, but not V, he is made of sterner stuff. Get a couple of Montecristo No 2's in the Bond.
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Old 29th March 2020, 13:21
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R&J Petit Royale or Partagas D No.6 for preference. I did know two people that thought King Eddie's were good. I have told Higgins to admit them only through the tradesman's entrance.

I do appreciate a vintage from our oldest ally however I really prefer it aged in wood so keep the expensive stuff for yourself and leave me the Tawny.

It is rightfully said that a dedicated alcoholic drinks cheap port and expensive brandy (poteen only in Hibernian coffee or when the fire is difficult to light).
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Old 29th March 2020, 18:15
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I feel it is a shame that small tobacconists shops have disappeared from the streets. The little trays of different tobaccos were as redolent of history as the shipping forecast. You could call into a shop like this and buy a really cheap pipe to smoke tea in. The worst think I ever smoked was a twig of elder drilled down the middle, the rim dipped in oil and lit. Why do we regard such things as being the good old days?
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Old 29th March 2020, 19:14
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Park Drive, Woodbine and Cadets staple smoking requisite for H&W crew.

Question... how can you tell if a Bosun (insert trade as required) is well hung ?

Answer... You can't get your fingers between the noose and his neck.
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Old 29th March 2020, 23:07
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Park Drive, Woodbine and Cadets staple smoking requisite for H&W crew.

Question... how can you tell if a Bosun (insert trade as required) is well hung ?

Answer... You can't get your fingers between the noose and his neck.


ha ha I like that!
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