The Romancers

[gray_marian]

#77-80........,I cannot possibly comment Chaps!!! Have already been deleted from s/butt this morning for what I thought was very mild.
Think I may be expelled after this comment... if it's printed. Toodle Pip, Marian

[cappy]

#81 never been in scuttle butt marion see enough on here .......not a nice place I would think for a sweet young thing.......there are im sure some strange goings on in there being a true romancer I shall look at the world through rose vtinted spectacles

[gray_marian]

#82........, 'Sweet young thing'....... Why thank you kind Sir that made smile. Think you are wearing sun glasses rather than rose tinted I'm 56.

[cappy]

#83 hardly past virginal at 56 .......if I may be so bold

[Captain Kong]

Behave yourselves you two, you will need a bucket of water on you next.

[gray_marian]

Aye Aye Capt'........, Make it champagne and we're laughing............Two presents still to buy had better go.

[cappy]

#86 any chance with Newcastle brown

[Captain Kong]

That is the only nooky your going to get Cappy, Nooky Brown

[cappy]

#88 you you voyeur

[leratty]

John S, yes it is sad that all the good times have gone. There was nothing so much fun as our time ashore or in the mining getting into town, the things that occurred were to say the least memorable. I was as mentioned lucky as the Mining et al industry still had so many characters as the BMN was winding back + a hell of a lot of old timers from the war who had kind of used it as a French Foreign Legion to disappear. My second boss in Jamaica setting up a bauxite mine was a wonderful Pole who had done some things in his life. Part of which was being press ganged in to the Russian army at 16 & later in the Free Polish Army, Monte Casino through to Berlin. Another a Scouse who wound up in Burma in the Chindits, demobbed in Aus they would not allow him to stay. Went back to UK then Aus army started advertising there for experienced troop so he came back for Korea in Aus commandos. Then in to the mining industry, what a character had two army pensions + that from his mining days apparently used to drink the lot I was later told.
In the US & Canada some of the guys were the heaviest drinkers I ever saw, a single bottle of whisky nothing to them yet could all get up in the morning & do their often very dangerous jobs without any problem. I was sure privileged to work with them & so many of the BMN sailors. Like you I got out at the early stage of the industry going mad with H&S worse background checks. The characters both in management & the field all dying off or leaving just like the death of the wild west (: Now except in the 'stan' countries colourless.
I bumped into an old character a while ago who had worked with me, then living in a boarding house/private hotel in up country Thailand seeing out his days in a bar. Nope no Thai wife, just his money went further. We reminisced & laughed for a few hours, my wife was for sure unable to make head nor tail of what we were laughing at. She says that is a side she does not wish to know too much about.
Brian agree Mandy was the better looker.