The Bid for Leadership Race....

[thomas michael]

hi cappy #227
good morning, like your jacko mine was tied with a cord or something, with it around his neck and his hands where tied behind his back, it was a pitiful site, i took him to my cabin and cut the cord off him and slammed the cabin door shut, but the next morning when i came back to the ship he just jumped on my head and scratched and bit me everywhere, as you state it was a hell of a fight to get him off my head and i couldnt calm him down, so thats why i threw him over the side, he was as good as gold after that and as you said you have to show him who is boss,
when i docked at port talbot i had him in the spud locker so once the rumble squad had finished, i just took him ashore when i paid off.he was the best pet i ever owned,
tom

[cappy]

Well thom i had a canvas belly band round jacko .....he had enough line on him to get onto my porthole and sit jibbering to any one who went up or down on the outboard alleway........he was a good companion to most hands on the indian coast and the gulf on a long trip ....i was not a hapy bunny when after many indian and bangladesh ports a health official stated a big bond was needed to keep him aboard as he could carry disease .....this after seeing the **** strued streets of bombay or it could have been madrass bodies in the street ...lumps of bodies floating about with shite hawks sitting on them pecking the flesh.....but such is life sadly i never had a photo of him......funnily enough i also had pigeons in a old tatty locker ....and the mate was amongst many showing an interest but it was not a succesful venture ......i guess after being hanted and let go ....went they returned the tatty locker was miles away on the boatdeck of the tramp.....another learning curve lol ......cappy R683532

[Louis the fly]

#225. Yes I am not as old as you, started at sea 1963. I was never a paper boy, used to help the milkman on his rounds before leaving school.

#226. Lots of information on the monkey, but I didn't expect anything else.

[happy daze john in oz]

Marian, like any most open to the general public we will get from time to time trolls and other nasties.
But I think those of us who were genuinely at sea know who they are and how to avoid them.
With Vernon in charge I doubt many will get past him
I trust his judgement implicitly and know he will ix any who try it on

[thomas michael]

hi marian #233
good afternoon, if you can advise my wife to do the same i would be a happy man
tom

[Louis the fly]

Out of respect for Doc I will not pursue this any further. Genuine seamen know there are still some of us around.

[happy daze john in oz]

Graham dear fellow, I feel you are some what passionate about the current PM situation and that is your right, one I would support.

But you may well ask why I appear to be so anti MP.

Simple really.
Here in Oz we have both federal and state govs, far too many in reality with a population of about 26 mil.
Federal and state all have a chief health officer responsible for health issues and are public servants.
It works in all states but here in Victoria.
Here the state premier has pushed him to one side giving all responsibility for all matters regarding the virus to the health minister. A man who as a career poli would not be able to administer a bloody Asprin. A public servant with years of health experience shafted.

The in the new federal gov, the minister for employment.
He left uni, worked a a staffer for a poli then got into a safe Labor seat as a career poli.
Responsible for employment yet has never done adays work in his life, would not know what to do if his hands got dirty!

If I recall correctly way back in the Wilson gov there was a transport minister by the name of Barbra Carter, never even held a driving license!!

Poli attempt to run the nation, yet we have them in portfolios they have no understanding of, supposedly supported by the public service, some thing that when it suits them they chose to ignore.
Until we have a gov made up of members who have had real life experience and are not career polis we will never have the perfect system we really need.

[j.sabourn]

#236. Was that not Barbara Castle John ? During that same Wilson Government if memory is correct which there is a 50% chance of it not being, he put a limit of 50 pounds leaving the shores of Blighty for those going abroad this was 1968 . I was working in Canada at the time and was the same period as the Montreal Expo.there were thousands of British subjects attending , mostly well off persons , how he ever intended to police that regulation G only knows .To stay in an hotel would have seen your 50 quid off after the first day. Wilson was one of the biggest phonies who has ever lived at number 10. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Correct John, it was Castle.
Yes I recall the 50 quid lark with him, we went to Ireland, republic that is, that year and were questioned at Heathrow as to how much we had.
Showed him my wallet, but not what was in my socks, Ok he said you can go.

[Keith Tindell]

The interview last night on the Andrew Marr and Sunak was very interesting, Liz Truss has declined to be interviewed by him, which is a shame. He took some grilling and stood up fairly well i thought, one of the interesting facts that came out , was that the cost of housing illegal migrants in the UK in hotels is costing £5 million a week!!!. In another article last week, i think it was Reading prison is costing huge sums of money to maintain, and is empty , we also have one completely empty and unused here on the Island, i have a very good use for these i could think of.kt