Best time of the day

[John Pruden]

what was the best time of day for you out at sea and where was it?jp

[Captain Kong]

Pay off day in Liverpool John.then into Tom Halls.

[j.sabourn]

Sitting watching John Wayne on a Walport film in the smoke room, and living in the realms of fantasy far away from the ship. John Sabourn

[Captain Kong]

Pay off day in Liverpool and then into Tom Halls,

.6am on the focsle head, sun just coming up on the equater, Mate shouts OK finish Look out, the air fresh and cool before the heat of the day, smoko, 7 am wash down, eggs and bacon, on a good feeder, then all day bronzy.
better than a millionaires cruise.
Happy days, not a care in the world, shore people never enjoy moments like that.
We were the last of the Seafarers, the world will not see the likes of us again.
Brian

[John Pruden]

thank god brian{we all would have had aids} if it was going then?jp

[Ivan Cloherty]

Hi John, unfortunately 'First Aid' has a different meaning these days

[Captain Kong]

thank god brian{we all would have had aids} if it was going then?jp
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.Dont understand that one John.?
cheers
Brian.

[Chris Allman]

I think john is saying that that the foreign ladies of ill repute might have had a more serious present to give us than the usual doses of those days, had it been these days with Aides being very common.

[Captain Kong]

Unless he is mistaking Tom Halls with Doctor Ross`.
Tom Halls was the ale house just behind the Cunard Building almost under the Overhead Railway, demolished in 1956 when the Overhead was demolished. We always went in there on pay day.
Brian

[Keith Tindell]

I used to enjoy the weekends prior to the 44hr week, when apart from your trick at the wheel, dhobi, and bronzy on the hatch. After the work hours were reduced(year???), weekends at sea were the same as any other day KT