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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 17:55:52 GMT
ça ne me dérange pas
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 18:05:58 GMT
D'accord
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Post by tonyqj on Dec 1, 2016 18:06:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 18:18:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 18:22:56 GMT
Fils de pute! Thats what the misses usually calls me I hate the French. Bit awkward that swmbo and my two daughters are on French passports. Oops!
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Post by bargemast on Dec 1, 2016 18:50:02 GMT
Je suis heureux de pouvoir dire que je suis parfaitement normal, le seul fou à bord chez moi c'est le con qui me regarde dans le miroir.
Peter.
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Post by bargemast on Dec 1, 2016 18:56:22 GMT
Fils de pute! Thats what the misses usually calls me I hate the French. Bit awkward that swmbo and my two daughters are on French passports. Oops! Your mum must have had a very useful profession, that is of course if your misses is right in calling you names.
Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 19:41:59 GMT
Afraid to say that she is inaccurate although at one point my mother did express an interest in running a barge brothel (yes she was a boater too) . Maybe if she had pursued that I could be described as a fils de madame
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Post by bargemast on Dec 1, 2016 20:04:19 GMT
Afraid to say that she is inaccurate although at one point my mother did express an interest in running a barge brothel (yes she was a boater too) . Maybe if she had pursued that I could be described as a fils de madame That would have even more honourable, with a boating mother that was almost running a real "working" boat.
My mother (born 1909) hated boats, her father was a professional sea-fisherman and she had a childslife full of worries, before ship to shore radio communication existed, and her dad had only sails and no engine, and after frequent storms often came back a week or later than planned, but he always came back eventually, not like some other fisherman in the family.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 20:18:12 GMT
Working boat history is another side of boating, completely different to my background. My mother was born in 1944 to a large family (last of 7 children). Hers were well to do middle class parents coming to terms with the war and the loss of their first born son in an aircraft testing accident. They had a house near the Thames. Her early encounters with boats involved swimming with her brothers around the Thames lighters below Kingston bridge. In later life she lived on a narrow boat and did extensive cruising on English canals All a bit personal but never mind. This is why I like boats and boating so much. It brings together people from all different backgrounds and with all sorts of varying histories. Pleasure boats, work boats and now boats used as affordable living spaces. All good. The things I find with the magnet show it up so clearly. One day I will find an old iron windlass. Someone who was grafting in unbelievably adverse conditions simply to survive (dropping the windlass in would be quite serious for them) Then I find a tiny iron boathook in the Thames. The sign of a pleasure boater out enjoying a punting trip with the ladies (breaking the boathook would be a minor inconvenience). Sorry if this is off topic !!
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Post by bargemast on Dec 1, 2016 20:26:27 GMT
The real "working" boat, I had in mind was the one working as a brothel, as she expressed an interest in at one point running one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 20:27:19 GMT
There is no point to a forum without people prepared to post.
The more members there are, then that small percentage of people willing to post is slightly larger.
We currently have 255 members, but how many regularly post? Half? A quarter?
I like to browse this place over a brew before and after work (at the moment). Not much to browse unless people post.
The more the merrier in my view.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 20:34:05 GMT
The real "working" boat, I had in mind was the one working as a brothel, as she expressed an interest in at one point running one. Peter. Yes I sometimes wish she had pursued that. A humber keel would have done the job. I could have been the skipper and the person charged with ensuring that all the equipment aboard was in good order. Obviously I am taking about engines and generators, toilets, washing machines. That sort of thing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 20:39:52 GMT
As there is a bit of reminiscing going on I thought I'd share a story about my wife.
When she was in her 'teens' her parents were living on St Helena, she was at boarding school in the UK. During the longer holidays she would return to St Helena, the journey involved flying to Cape Town and then catching the mail boat this would be done on her own except for chaperoning her younger brother. Mail had to go the same way.
One year after the summer Hols she returned to school, something went wrong and she couldn't drop her younger brother off as planed so smuggled him into the girls dorm...
The next morning pandemonium broke out when younger brother was spotted by a teacher. My wife was marched to the Heads office and tried to explain, numerous hours of detention were issued mainly because she was late returning to the school - a letter had been sent with revised start dates 4 week prior, how could she not have known about it!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 21:05:31 GMT
There is no point to a forum without people prepared to post. The more members there are, then that small percentage of people willing to post is slightly larger. We currently have 255 members, but how many regularly post? Half? A quarter? I like to browse this place over a brew before and after work (at the moment). Not much to browse unless people post. The more the merrier in my view. Rog It's a fine line between quantity and quality though....
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