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14th June 2021, 11:11
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I had only one fault I could not fix on a Crusader and none on an Atalanta. The one that I could not fix was on my first trip and I had identified it to the astonishment of the techs at Pembroke (a resistor across the anti parasitic choke on the anode top of one output bottle).
I will, therefore, have ample time to find, should there be either, a Davidoff's or Fox's. Failing that I will pick up a box of Filipino cigars as destined for the US market. The scam to overcome the embargo of Cuban products is to first export the leaf to the Philippines, roll the smokes there (I suspect after attending thigh school in Havana) and then export them to the US. Pretty good result too although the only one's I have enjoyed are too large, more Texan Gobstopper than Petit Robusto, so rather wasted on me. As for the port. It does not have that appellation traditionally until it has been barged over the bar of the Douro. It is, then. not necessary for us to also pass over the Mariannas trench in order to obtain it but it's "any port" as they say. I hope Tmac has ventilated the double bottom tank into which he was channeling his flatus, not to mention removing any rags made from his hosiery. The something that such attributes lend to the flavour of the port is certain, very, very certain indeed. I took the EL by way of a check the other day. I thought it was strange that the reading showed green until I realised that it was one of these new fangled computerised devices and was measuring the colour of the atmosphere.
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14th June 2021, 11:12
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Open and consume half a glass. Put in fridge until tomorrow. Re-open, pour another half glass, blow around to room temperature in the microwave (17 seconds). Repeat and repeat..................... 
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18th June 2021, 06:22
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I got us a berth up in Subic, (a stones throw from Ageles and the streets of many bars) we will sail tomorrow morning. We can be berthed there for as long as we like or until the agent comes up with a job for us. And I have ordered a tanker if Red Horse beer and 20 cases of Tanduay Rum. It will be delivered to us there.
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18th June 2021, 06:35
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Now that Boris and Morrison
 have agreed to a free trade deal there are 400 TEU loaded with Vegemite available for immediate despatch to the UK here in Oz. Can we divert to pick them up?Not sure what we will get (or want) in return. Some Lucas spares, perhaps? I wouldn't mind a Bentley, however! 
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18th June 2021, 07:02
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WTF 400 TEU's? Where do you think you are, the Mary Maersk?
The Agent has booked a lot of cargo, one million bags of the best Sligo rags, two million barrels of stone, three million sides of old blind horses hides, four million barrels of bones, five million hogs, and six million dogs, seven million barrels of porter and eight million bails of old nanny-goats' tails in the hold of the Golden Dreamer. Even Para Handy could work it out that a Box and a half will bring us down to our marks. Let's not load the Blind Horses Hides as there will be sufficient here after Royal Ascot.
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19th June 2021, 10:50
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Excellent BB.
We just need to keep them away from ES. He is addicted to it you know.
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19th June 2021, 11:13
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This is beginning to sound like the Antipodeans riding to the support of the rebellious Hibernians. My port tanks used for porta and blanketed by IG (Intestinal Gas), the Marmite cupboard stacked with a southern simulacrum. I fear I will soon have to be concealing a voyage's worth of Patum Peperium and post prandial linctus as if from a rummage squad.
It would not be so bad (Tmac flatus flavour apart) if the porta were Mackeson's instead of a foul bothiebrew made by an Irish Earl. I haven't felt so isolated since two fully Scottish bastards tried to weld my workshop door shut (with me inside).
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19th June 2021, 16:57
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Indeed a stranger in his own workshop.
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19th June 2021, 23:15
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Indeed, half didn't count. They didn't succeed the sparks showered my ankles.
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20th June 2021, 09:56
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1. Any drink is better than no drink 2. Drink is cheap at any price. BTW Mackeson's is a fine drink but starring in Coronation Street in the 60's and 70's did it significant commercial damage.
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20th June 2021, 10:39
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As Sharples did for the purifier. (But I would have thought not bitter enough for a drinker of said noble FBB - I did drink either Beamish or Murphy's once a week when 'doing' my one and only solo DD at TDE. and no need to promote me beyond my blood grade. I am big headed enough as it is).
(Dear Fleming! I can remember a character from that mind rotting opiate of the unwashed). Of course I should have writ porter not porta, my spell checker is in for a beating with sticks.
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20th June 2021, 16:25
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Ahhh the memories of a wee drinkiepoo on a Friday at knocking off time. Plenty of pushing and shoving for elbow room in "The Rising Tide" (bet ES remembers that bar)
1st order a Wee Willie and a White Horse, only Belfast aficionados with know what that was.  Walking down the quayside avoiding the pavement pizzas, out of the chippie with the three stone fish supper while trying to out stare a chip  happy days and fond memories of a life well lived
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21st June 2021, 15:44
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Watched TV this afternoon to relax before picking up the 4 to 8. Lo and behold the curvaceous Alice Roberts was in Belfast talking to the usual suspects. The programme energised me and I'm going down below and I will squeeze an extra 5 revs from the greasy beast if it kills me.
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21st June 2021, 17:27
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22nd June 2021, 00:14
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 As for Alice Roberts even I noticed her contribution ages ago (see#7158) as the show aired here early June. Just shows how far in front of the rest of the world we are here in Oz. I thought that Alice's escort at H & W looked vaguely familiar at the time but I was more interested in what Alice had to say, of course. Alice Roberts and Fiona Bruce are the best of British down hereunder at the moment .............. 
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22nd June 2021, 06:57
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All I saw yesterday was a clean shaven, well dressed expert talking knowledgably about a subject he is passionate about. God knows we have few enough of them in NI so when anybody puts his best foot forward they get my vote. As for Skippy, shut up and keep shovelling.
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22nd June 2021, 13:08
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billy boy sat thinking to himself...79 years old now....ought to think about retiring.... but who can I can I put in charge in my place?... need to find a volunteer who knows how to handle a ship...
Must give the agent a call, got to be a job around for us somewhere. need a good PAX or towing job.
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23rd June 2021, 03:51
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23rd June 2021, 05:42
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Am I hallucinating or has YM had cosmetic surgery? The Memsahib thinks it may be Botox and that he is beginning to look like Paul Hogan or Shane Warne.
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23rd June 2021, 08:14
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Are you sure that you were not hallucinating?
What are you on? Can I have some? I suggest that you double check with the Memsahib as I am sure that she probably only confirmed what she thought you (as head of the household) wanted to hear for a quiet life. PS: Don't you like my new haircut? I rather like it ............................ 
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23rd June 2021, 11:08
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Cosmetic? Only in as much as one of of Dr. Pimple-poppers pimply patient's post pop pimple poppings.
Shut up you may be but are you shoveling? We seem to have put on a knot or two but we are sure to drop them off when you have to put some more on.
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23rd June 2021, 14:11
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Just think of it in that I am saving your whites hanging on the aerials.
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23rd June 2021, 16:41
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Little and often is the secret.
Balderdash, thats some sort of nancy-boy train talk. Fill the furnace half full and let her rip, we want a full head of steam, the needle up in the blood and the feed pump surging continuously. No one ever got promoted shovelling coal with a tablespoon.
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23rd June 2021, 17:13
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YM. I think our watch would be ahead in the competition for the most revs logged in a day (against E-S anyway and providing the Chief doesn't catch us out). Is it only antipodeans that know the hand stoked coal burner japes? (I know not only from Kipling but also from a bunch of BHP guys doing their Chief's in '75 at Saudi Shields).
Mind you, E-S would probably be OK as a school janitor with a coke boiler. You, on the other hand, would probably have the little buggers broiled before break. (And that Chinaman won't get his five beers if I find my aerials used for drying my whites, no more anyone else's).
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