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    Didn’t taste the same though in the coffee. JS
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    #4. Your still well past the male menapause John. We can use that excuse as well as the women. Cheers JS
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    UCLK regulations,
    If you drop the soap while in the shower do not bend over to pick it up'

    As to age, I am a 16 year old with many, many years experience, some of it not to be released.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Soap on a Rope was such a Godsend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Vernon View Post
    May be you are referring to some of the UCL Crew (Lavender Ladies) with their Bars of Soaps! LOL Eeeeeek!!! What Next !
    Luckily Doc, never sailed on one of those, Yardley's was great currency in the Bars of WCSA, we undid all the work the poor Nuns had done, instead of filling their souls with hope, we filled their holes with soap, anyway that is what I was told!

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    Last birthday 89, this morning my wife came out to the kitchen to find me standing on the kitchen sink taking down the curtains, our windows are one and a half meters high, I said "I Know, I Know I should have got the ladder.", then I nearly fell off.
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    So Des, Does that mean I can do stupid stuff for two more years, since you seem to have ?
    I have orders to stay off ladders, but having a hard time remembering. Ha, ha, have stood in the sink a lot of times to fix stuff. Hard to take sailor’s improvisation out of us …. Cheers, Keith Adams.

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    There I was this morning up a ladder at the request of SWMBO trimming a tree in the light rain when she aid you should not be climbing up ladders !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    OK you try then, she went in doors and left me to it.
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    i hurt my back plying piggy back rides with the grandkids I FELL OFF jp

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    Try Grimsby Institute Humber Maritime College, established 2019 for engineering officer cadets but may have progressed to Deck Officers by now. In my time there 65-68 Grimsby College of Technology as it was had a very fine MN cadet training scheme with an enviable reputation.

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