Sea farers' language

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Originally Posted by Brenda Shackleton

From my childhood...
Tab nabs
Teddy oggies ?
C.P.R. cake . Battenburg
One hand to the ship - hold the banister
'Catch my hand' . Dad's version of ,' hold my hand'
Time to go up aloft (time for bed)
Brenda
Said all of these to our children and now g/children

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Tattie oggies (unless its my accent) ha ha

Few there I had forgotten brings to my
memory Saloon bobby,Stairhead man and
to start the day bar carry.

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Originally Posted by Tony Taylor

ropo ffs

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Ropo ffs =what?

Thank you Ivan, a momentary slip of the nearly 89 year old memory, full of millions of tons of rubbish. A Fitch by any other name paints just the same, memory returning slowly.
Des

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Originally Posted by Des Taff Jenkins

memory returning slowly.
Des

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Nothing wrong with your memory Des, it is just a fact of life, that our brains are so full of usefull information that the processor takes longer to find it, where as in the young the brain is nearly empty thus enabling the processor to find it immediately

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Originally Posted by Ivan Cloherty

Yer memory slipping a bit there Des, unless you've mistyped

A dogsleg is an angled brush either round or flat

a Fitch is a small flat brush with sloping bristles, normally used for decorative work, plus plimsolls and draught mark edges if you had a pernickety mate.

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silver dip frog racing ,deck golf bridge box

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Originally Posted by Roger Millard

Ropo ffs =what?

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Roll on pay off seen on every e/r blackboard

Wer'n't they all Ivan.

That was wonderful printing it off
very clever, thank you.

inthought a rosie was your cabin garbage bin?