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    That reminds me John
    As we are getting the Entire House refitted with new Blinds and Curtains in some 5 Weeks time , i must also re Varnish my Window Sills as the Sun especially on the Back Rooms has sort of faded them. Good reminder! Cheers

    We are going for the Double Roller Type .
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    I Remember mostly on tankers; as they all had a recreation room, racing along the flying bridge at lunch time to make sure you got a seat at a game of 500, Crib I wasn't that keen on but in those days needs must.
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    For myself Des
    I loved 500 Cribbage ,after i had learnt to play correctly it was my main game! And only once in my lifetime ever had the high hand of 4 Fives and his Nob (Total Score of 29) that was a blast!
    Spent many hours playing that game.
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    Vernon, we put some of them in our house, mainly back bedrooms.
    They are great, you can see out but no one can see in.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    We have a very extensive library of books of all kinds.

    her in doors loves the Catherine Cookson ones which she will re-read at times.
    I am a fan of Wilbur Smith, got his latest one today, his 40th I believe, they are all re-readable and I slowly work my way through them.
    Have read some two or three times over the years they are such good yarns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Les Woodard View Post
    Recall playing snooker on the Paraguay Star and think that the other BA runners had one on each as well. Mind you in rough weather it was never any good. Who amongst us remember trying to play darts in rough weather or just choppy seas LOL.
    I was useless at darts but in the winter, crossing the North Atlantic on the 12,000 ton tanker Caltex Calcutta, I was as good (or bad) as anyone else!

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    Yes, I learned to play crib and cribbage on a Star boat. There were a couple of old greasers there that taught me. They had played it for so long and so often, they could tell you what you had in your hand with reasonable accuracy, after you laid down your first card. That was six-card. I learned five card a few years later. There is somebody in the township here trying to get a cribbage club together, so I might give that a swing.

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    I'm just in the process of reading the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings for the eleventy-nineteenth time. Pure laziness on my part. It was the first one that came to hand in our library. I might try the dictionary next time. Not much of a story but it explains every word as you go along.

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    #16 Victoria, I have read the trilogy and thoroughly enjoyed them, so much so that I now scan the charity shops and book shops for other Scandinavian authors, haven't been disappointed yet.

    You may want to try 'The girl who saved the King of Sweden' by Jonas Jonasson' isbn 978-0-00-755790-5

    Haven't got the names and titles of others as I pass them onto a neighbour.

    Also the series Wallendar the Scandinavian versions with sub titles, not the UK TV version with Kenneth Branagh as it bears no resemblance at all to the original Scandinavian versions. Branagh seems to think his style of being angry and shouting was Wallander, where-as the original was more in the style of Morse (the detective not the signals!!)

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    I am rereading Bill Bryson's, Notes from a Small Island. Where he records his trip around Britain, funny and great descriptions of the old place.
    Des

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