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Always remember when the la strada got its casino ....there was seamen coming home after long voyages with a fist ful of cash blowing it in one night .....not knowing what they had done the next day......at ist it was a classy place top entertainment .....then the dregs got in ......it was a sad tale .......R683532
Wasn’t me Cappy was never in , don’t even know where it is. Apart from the market pubs , Mill Dam, and Westhoe I’m lost . The Mechanics used to get in there when showing people round Shields who visited the ship you left in Hawthorn Leslie’s , took the chief engineer there who came for one night for engine trials on the berth. He picked up these two girls in the Mechanics who invited us to their flat for tea and tabnabs . They both boasted of getting 2 or 3 allotments each from different seamen . Hope they never all sailed on the same ship.
When you talk about the big pay offs I immediately think of the Harvester and Venturer as sailed with a Capt. Mclaughin who was the working mate on the factory ships when I was an apprentice , he wrote a book about them called the Deep South about those ships in long hand and I had to proof read it for him before it went to the publisher . I saw it in later years in Allan’s Bookshop but was too dear for me to buy . I later sailed with him as Master in Runcimans when I was second mate a real hard Western Islands man .He went on to write novels and moved back to Leith from South Shields . Must be a long time dead now.
Cheers JS
Newcastle, Sunderland, South Sheilds, nowt wrong with them.
All my ancestors came from that region, I was the first born outside due to circumstances.
Some bloody Gerry was dropping bombs so I was told.
Two great footy teams from there, and great ships out of the Sunderland yards, my great GF and his dad both worked there.
I will have to wait 6 to 8 weeks for the DNA results to come back. You need to have a degree of trust in whatever the findings are, it could be ancestors were missionaries from Mongolia sent to North Shields to tame and educate the local population, if so they failed.
The Mongolian and Geordie languages are very similar.
Closer to Nipponese Louis “ Haway man Hoy te ammer ower ear “. JS
It’s really surprising in a small country like Britain and all the different accents how easy it is to pick out where they are from. When I came out here to work offshore I thought I was back in the North Sea talking to others on the VHF. If it wasn’t for the sunshine and weather I would have been looking for my relief after 4 weeks. And yet it took me years to be able to recognise and seperate a kiwi and an Oz. As to different parts of Oz still wouldn’t have a clue. JS
When I was a kid the next village 3 miles away by road (2 miles over the fields), had a different accent and used some words that were not used in my villageQuote:
Originally Posted by j.sabourn
Calling someone a mongrel is an old Australian phrase usually said in a way that it is not meant to be fighting talk and should be taken as the inflection in the voice indicates . I’m surprised with the present day attitudes of people taken most things as an insult that it has managed still to stay in Australian idiocracies of speech. JS
An elementary School Teacher had twenty-six students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the 1st half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.
Some well thought out responses from this bright bunch of 6-year-olds……
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Don't change horses
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Strike while the
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It's always darkest before
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Never underestimate the power of
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You can lead a horse to water but
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Don't bite the hand that
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No news is
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A miss is as good as a
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You can't teach an old dog new
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If you lie down with dogs, you'll
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Love all, trust
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The pen is mightier than the
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An idle mind is
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Where there's smoke there's
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Happy the bride who
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A penny saved is
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Two's company, three's
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Don't put off till tomorrow what
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Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and
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There are none so blind as
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Children should be seen and not
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If at first you don't succeed
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You get out of something only what you
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When the blind lead the blind
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A bird in the hand
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Better late than
Cappy's Grandson is a good rugby layer, so I'm waiting for Cappy to get his D.N.A done to find out if he is Welsh, I'm crossing my fingers that he is.
mmm Des