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Old 9th February 2025, 09:42
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When is the next sailing of Wanganella from the West Island?
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Old 9th February 2025, 13:28
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I think you should ask E-S about that. He is on the Island to the West. But Wanganella? Is this some ailment of the social kind?
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Old 9th February 2025, 14:41
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Not sure if she’s going anywhere soon.
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Old 10th February 2025, 02:58
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She fared better than the Wahine after her tangle with Barrets Reef -
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/liner...d-barrett-reef
That photo that Malcy put up is when she was being used as a floating hostel for workers building the Manapouri Hydro Scheme.
YM, you'll have to organise another ship I'm afraid - Wanganella is long gone.
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Old 10th February 2025, 05:00
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Oh well I suppose that I will just have to stay here then!
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Well we made it to the Mediterranean. Need a good port with all amenities to lay up in for a while lads. any suggestions? we could be here till the Agent gets us a job
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Old 11th February 2025, 04:11
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Valetta. Never been there but it sounds like a nice historic place to visit.
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Old 11th February 2025, 08:17
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Never warmed to it.
My judgement is coloured by a horror of a Drydocking in 1977.
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Old 11th February 2025, 10:01
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Grand Harbour? I just worry that one day they might load live ammo in the midday gun.
Perhaps Marsaxlokk would be better for you.
They fly a reverse St Andrew’s flag so Tweedie should feel ‘at home’.
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Old 11th February 2025, 14:14
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I remember Phoenicia as an OK gaff. Might get ashore there for a dinner or two.

(Sister-in-law tells me on this week's Sunday sked that she has booked insanely cheap all in to Malta - from Harrow-in-the-hole - I must remember to ask the purser if he has been doing any business on his own account!)

If they do load the midday gun (probably 1300 to give them time to calculate noon and their 'rate') do we rate our chronometer by the bang or by observing fall of shot?
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Old 11th February 2025, 14:42
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5 star hotel = OK gaff. So what do you call a mere 3 or 4 star hostelry?
The gun? I just note the muzzle flash, unless I intend the calculate range to correct elevation.
(Yes, I have worn the white lanyard, but not in full time soldiery.)
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Old 11th February 2025, 23:16
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Field or Garrison ?
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Old 11th February 2025, 23:55
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Ah! Someone who knows about long range snipers.
That would be Field then.
Drill - load dummies and everyone shout “Bang!”
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Old 12th February 2025, 01:28
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Ok, Marsaxlokk, looks fine. I'll get my watercolours out. The flag looks nice, St Andrew, patron saint of fisherman.
ES - what happened in the drydock in '77? You didn't flush the heads did you? Or did the ship fall over?
Now you guys with your big cannons - keep hot things away from my touch hole - I might go off.
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Old 12th February 2025, 08:08
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And here's me thinking Marsaxlokk was a cure for diarrhoea. I'm still not convinced it isn't.

Similar to rugby, a game played ( badly ) in NZ, what happens in drydock stays in drydock
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Old 12th February 2025, 11:42
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Valetta it is then. we are to moor opposite the cruise terminal. I am told there are ''Hostelries a plenty there''
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5 Star? It must have been Conoco that arranged that (joining and leaving C. Europe) Mimco would have chosen something a little more down market.

Only cure for a passing looseness is Capt. MacAllister's Much-Griping-belly-balm. 50/50 brandy and port (neither need to be of other than the cooking variety so keep off the Rochas). The pain goes and there is once more firmness in the fundament - his dose was short a drop or two. A 'wine glass'. Half a pint is more like it.

("Keep off the Rochas" is not a "bridge night order" but a warning that you'll lose your good character if I find you treating the aged Tawny and the XO as a nautical drench for jolly jack's gypie-tummy.

Not sure if also a specific for decomposing touched holes. A transplant might be more efficacious. Although finding a donor orifice might not be as much the problem as selecting one that might not reject the recipient).
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Old 13th February 2025, 01:50
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I was hoping for a ripping yarn about Drydock '77. It's been a long time since then, so you whatever you did must be out of the statute of liabilities by now.
Rugby used to be a great game in NZ, back when the players played for national pride, for the fans and for each other. Now that they're paying these guys humungous salaries, it's all got very boring - team owners only want bums on seats and profit profit profit. The all blacks are half owned by an American consortium. The season for rugby used to be winter, but it's year round now and the players (many of them primadonnas) are getting injured playing on hard surfaces in the summer here (it's pre-season games at the moment) and often they're carrying injuries into winter with them. Sports betting affects a lot of games too.
I don't know where they tummy trots came from in this thread - someone thinking of bad seafood at Marsaxlokk? Anyone remember Askit Powders? That's what I got when I was a kid. Nowadays, I'm on so many painkillers all the time which bung up anything close to the runs.
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Old 13th February 2025, 10:01
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Askit Powers
Beechams Powders
Mrs Cullens Powders
Keatings Powders

All before Big Pharma ruled the roost.
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Old 13th February 2025, 16:09
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Woodward's Gripe water (better than town gas for settling the little ones down Nanny reckoned).
Propter's Nicodemus pills. (Sold by aged uncles the world over)
Potter's Catarrh pastils (Tunes may help you breath more easily, Potter's catarrh pastils make you do so).
Dollop.
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Old 14th February 2025, 04:29
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Beecham - wasn't he the guy who stuffed up the trains? Nice to have good memories, but not bad ones.
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Old 14th February 2025, 09:41
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At this point one should mention Dr John Collins Browne’s compound - Famously addictive in its original formula but somewhat toned down over the years.
Pertinent here is that he apparently designed emergency packs for lifeboats, which also contain Class C drugs, as I discovered when I had to lawfully dispose of the expired products and obtain replacements during annual survey.
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