I got nothing better to do LOL

[Doc Vernon]

Well now when all is said and done
We have all been to Sea and had our fun

The ports we saw were good and bad
Some happy memories and some so sad

But all in all a damn good life
Now stuck ashore with trouble and strife

But memories stay strong no matter what
And always thinking of some other plot

But too old now to start again
so have to live with all this pain

So life goes by without much spice
And oh we long for the younger life

But sadly now it's all but gone
So all we do is try and stay strong

So try and enjoy what you have now
Be it only with some sulky Cow! LOL

Opppps!

[j.sabourn]

Whatever, we all have had a good life otherwise we wouldn't be here, so many of my ex shipmates are dead and some died very young to what we are now. Luck has a lot to do with life, and our partners who keep us going when sometimes life looked very bleak. We all learn something new nearly every day some of the things we don't really want to know, but have to face up to them. It is not a great new world out there to older people like us, but a much smaller world today, with the usual mistakes being made more so today than yesterday. Looking at that UN emergency meeting last night, all the good intentions since it was formed have had very little impact on the rest of the world apart from cojoling other countries into supplying money for victims of disasters. Every newspaper you read is full of doom and gloom and the wealth of certain countries or the lack of it. In our younger days when we had nothing we accepted it as others were all in the same boat. Today the world looks like a bunch of wartime spivs trying to make their fortunes at others expense. Self advancement seems to be the rule of the day. More so in the political world than elsewhere. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

John, oh so very true.
Back in our younger day we knew who to trust and who was a 'spiv' or similar.
But now we are all caught, taken for mugs by politicians who think they know best. Politicians who have in many cases never had a decent job, have any life experience such as we have. Then they have the nerve to tell us what is good for us and what we need.

Could you imagine any of them turning to for the 4 to 8 in the early morning, or doing a wingers scrub out, somehow I doubt it.