home confinement

[john middleton]

Isn't this confinement similar to being at sea
endless weeks pass with little to do, never quite sure
what day it is, no darts, crib or trips to the Plg, we
used to joke we played snooker, how did you manage
with the ship roillng they asked: well we used Kiddie's coloured
buiding bricks.

[Doc Vernon]

Think i will start off trying to Build something again with Match Sticks as i did many many Years ago. I built a Model of the Eiffel Tower that took me some 16 Weeks to complete with a Total of 450 Match Boxes that held approx 50 matches each. The gluing (flour and water mix) and taking the heads off of the matches and the actual design were the hardest and most intricate part!
And can you believe this,after it was completed i had it for about four Weeks and then my younger Sister (then only 4) managed to take it apart with one bang! Sat on the bleedin thing! Gosh was a Mad!!!!! Grrrr! All that hard work gone! Oh well thats life !

Added
I can tell you though that i had a lot of fun with all those Match Heads afterwards, used them to make small Bombs ,each one went off with quite a Bang! LOL

[Les Woodard]

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.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Vernon.
Hope you didn't put then in your sisters nappy.
Des

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Snap Victoria.
One thing that is annoying, we didn't realize that the Library would be closing, I have to go all through my small library rereading my books.
Des

[john middleton]

Darts although awkward was fun I remember on some
cargo boats we had 'indoor' leagues with about 5 or 6
teams of a few players something to look forward to at
the end of the day.

[Doc Vernon]

Yep the Darts were good on Board always enjoyed that,plus the game i learned at Sea Cribbage.

Victoria Now would i do a thing like that LOL
cHEERS

[happy daze john in oz]

So far used four liters of varnish on inside of window frames.
Cut down three trees and now haver to cut then up for fuel for fire over winter.
Walked my legs off, 7 kilometers yesterday and 7 more today.

But here is an odd one, Easter Sunday and police issuing fins to people putting flowers on graves.
Such a stink that today they had to withdraw the fines and issue an apology saying it was all a mistake.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Police issuing fins to people, sounds fishy to me!

[j.sabourn]

The flowers were water Lily’s Ivan. JS