Is the season

[gray_marian]

#19, Alf pet, I remember the 'licorice pipe with red bits' well and still enjoy the sweetie cigarettes available and now known as "candy sticks", without the red tips due I presume to the pc brigade.

[gray_marian]

#20 'What about the whip'....My dear John, what about it?????. You'll be wanting to know what I had for my breakfast next!!!!
I did not come up the Clyde in a banana boat........

[cappy]

but whats bananas got to do with it or am I just a naïve old seaman

[gray_marian]

#23, The term means....... The user was not born yesterday.
Alf my lovely, I have you down as many things! A 'naive old seaman' is not one of them.

[gray_marian]

#24 This particular answer was for Cappy but I addressed it to Alf by mistake.....not that I don't think Alf is lovely too

[j.sabourn]

Marian, you will probably find that Cappy has now gone into a huff. Probably already hitting his bottle of Spanish beer. Cheers John Sabourn

[cappy]

ah marion its to late......I can see another has your affection......who is this alf........my heart is broken .....tonite I shall go down aft .....in the storm ........think of what might have been........and toss myself off .................................................. ...........into the boiling sea

[j.sabourn]

Leave your seaboots behind Cappy I want them to be Santa Claus. John S.

[gray_marian]

#26 &27, John & Alf, Room in my heart for all

[Ivan Cloherty]

Don't cancell your allotment just yet Cappy, there's time for things to turn around