Covid

[cappy]

I remember Rob well Marian, he had spent some time here on the Island, and also had done some work within the Fire Service, and knew some of my old workmates, kt

rob was a very well informed guy on many subjects ,,,his tale of having to leap out a miners window who came back early one night ,,,,,,,and run from whitburn down tio shields with no kecks on was hilarious that when he was at shields marine college....RIP rob.....he also confirmed my story of a jar of pickled onions with little bugs swimmin round inpeople said they couldnt live in vinigar ....that on one of hains tramps in oz....liked rob good humour but took no prisoners... cappy

[j.sabourn]

Those little bugs swimming around Cappy, were your meat ration . JS

[cappy]

Those little bugs swimming around Cappy, were your meat ration . JS

aye john but there was four of us in the cabin ....cappy

[j.sabourn]

Were there no vegetarians amongst you.? JS

[cappy]

Were there no vegetarians amongst you.? JS

well the problem was ......the potato locker was hiding three birds we had picked up in aucland ....and they had sold the tatties......but we had canary seed regular ...it was cheep...the chief steward said we had moreton bay crabs .....well i had never been to moreton bay ....thought i got mine in freo.....oh happy day

[j.sabourn]

If they were the size of crayfish ,probably were. JS

[Tony Taylor]

rob was a very well informed guy on many subjects ,,,his tale of having to leap out a miners window who came back early one night ,,,,,,,and run from whitburn down tio shields with no kecks on was hilarious that when he was at shields marine college....RIP rob.....he also confirmed my story of a jar of pickled onions with little bugs swimmin round inpeople said they couldnt live in vinigar ....that on one of hains tramps in oz....liked rob good humour but took no prisoners... cappy

He was in the year behind me at Shields, B & C if I recall, they had quite a few guys at the college, nearly half my group were B & C.

[John Pruden]

its a very nice of people to give rob such a good name after he has passed he was a prolific poster on this site and he was a good lad.. jp

[Keith at Tregenna]

Well the down under stuff and i'm all right jack stuff is hopefully,
working for them but, something that started in the Southern
hemisphere affects the North, the two years ago - just like flue,
be over in weeks brigade seem not to see what is reported here:

Another 75 cases of Omicron Covid are found in England: UK total doubles to 134 as health chiefs reveal the majority of sequenced super-variant infections are in fully-vaccinated people... and SAGE warns of five years of coronavirus misery

K.

[j.sabourn]

#78. Thought it started in China ? JS