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[alf corbyn]

to you this time marian dear. "COR" there was an early reference to a banana and a candlestick on this thread. Cappy. you are now going back to a very old Max Miller joke.

[j.sabourn]

He"s about the same age as Cappy 107. Cheers John S

[gray_marian]

#30, Ivan Darling! Your goodself & Cappy have spoken of 'allotment' once before in reference to me. My question is what other connotation does it have? apart from growing your own veg.

[j.sabourn]

That's got you stumped Ivan, will have to look up concoction JS

[cappy]

#28 to late for my seaboots john another has claimed them .......someone called alf has filled them .......but I suspect that romance may not last as his idea of a meal and wine .....is the a1 café in shields ......where I would take my love to the seamans mission in shields on Friday......renowned for fish and chips......and may even buy her a hello sailor hat.......my allotment has gone to another now .......my new love is one legged crosseyed mary ......perhaps she could be true......she said she once met a bloke called rob down bythe old lifeboat ......do we have a rob on the site who went to the marine school in shields

[gray_marian]

As much as it pains me Gentlemen, will have to love & leave you and prepare Sunday dinner for family. Toodle Pip.

[j.sabourn]

You mean the one who hid in the lifeboat as the girls played too rough. Our Rob would never admit to that. He could run faster than one legged Mary anyway. Anyhow she couldn't see to run straight anyway. Cheers JS

[cappy]

#37 yes john this rob fellow was by all accounts a blaggard of the first degree......when one legged crosseyed mary wouldnot succumb to his deviant request ......he threw her bleedin crutch away .......the wooden one I mean and stamped on her national health glasses......polished his brass buttons and left poor mary by the old lifeboat on a cold winters night...........ps mary sends her love to you and sed has it got better yet

[Ivan Cloherty]

#30, Ivan Darling! Your goodself & Cappy have spoken of 'allotment' once before in reference to me. My question is what other connotation does it have? apart from growing your own veg.

Marian, when you signed on a ship, you were always asked do you want to leave an allotment and to whom. This meant a certain amount of your basic wage was sent to your home/wife/girlfriend etc by the shipping company office and the total amount deducted from your wages each week/fortnight/month. As a cadet you were instructed to leave 30% minimum to your mum, other ranks left varying amounts depending upon their circumstances, but were not allowed to leave their full basic pay, as some had to be retained for shipboard expenses/subs/NHI/mail costs etc. So you normally made out the allotment to the one your wife or the one you loved. Some stopped their allotment if they thought their wife was having a bit on the side!!

[John Gill]

I sailed with a ships cook on a Houlder boat, I was galley boy and at every port he would send me ashore to buy booze, always rum, nothing else. Went ashore in Lisbon with a mate on the usual errand but got led astray in the Texas Bar and spent his money on wine women and not a lot of song. Eventually got back on board and the cook was in a bit of a state, and gave me more cash to go back ashore for his 'fix'. As gathered, he had a real drink problem- never went ashore anywhere. The 'allotment' link to this post is that all his wage was sent to a pub in Swansea ( still there) where he had a room, sit in the bar and drink until it was time to go back to his ship. He had no family so that was his existence.