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Been a funny old week. A&E intensive care wards are not the best place I ever spent my May Day vacations.
That was the fourth night i spent in here and i didn’t much care for it.
Grim reaper was running and collecting like a demented Gippetto, by the time he finished his rounds there were just two of us left in the smallest ward —along with five empty beds . Not the most fun time i ever had in my life !!!!!!!
All that was to change rather dramatically over the next few hours . By daylight we were full to busting point. With the new intake .
Old Nick could be seen in the early hours §§§§§§§§rushing up and down —gleefully rubbing his hands together as he did a little jig !!!!!!!
I really thought he would have been well satisfied after taking five out out of seven.
Will be well pleased to leave this place — -ive stayed in better hotels than this [also been thrown out of them]. Will try to be good in future .
Pewked all day——-felt worse than when i went in, thank the lord there was no TV on the ward .
million dollar monitors and beds that cost fifty grand apiece .
Decided i had to leave —i was getting old in there —- home was where it’s at. Left at noon . Its taken nine hours to throw off the nausea.
Watched most of the coronation !!!!!!! You have to admit , no other country in the world can put on a show like the English. Was invited to the evening knees up at BUCKINGHAM PALACE but it chucked it down nonstop and i really did not feel up to muster.. so i passed , i will do the next one.
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Ok all you whacky boat pundits out there —here is something for you !!!!!!!!!!
this was sent to me by JEFF HALL. From HOCKENHEIM .
YES I DO KNOW ALL ABOUT IT AND WHO DROVE IT ——WHERE ??? AND WHO DROVE THE LOTUS —-AND WHAT WAS THE TRUE RESULT —AND WHY ??????? BUT DO YOU ???
EVEN LASSIE WILL NOT KNOW THE FULL STORY ON THIS ONE !!!!!! There was an awful lot of secrecy involved ——-marine publications were policed and vetted.!!!!!!!!!
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LONDON was the ONLY place to be yesterday, saturday the 6th May.
My daughter and her two daughters at THE SHARD last night.
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A pair of wonderful people from South Africa who just happen to have a holiday home right there in KEY-WEST.
They came and bought a couple of my best concepts .
Slowly on the mend. Two of my daughters came and cleaned up the workshop for me . Needed doing badly and i just could not be arsed . Long way from being right — but almost anything is better than laying in A + E watching the grim reaper on his rounds.
Just donned my work clothes , Simply need to pull myself up by the laces and get out there. Easier said than done .
First job is to Pack up the five all metal trophies which are on superb mahogany plinths and get them up to the L.O.B.M.BRC.
Daughter Kim will deliver them for me to Lowestoft.
Bunch of folk waiting for me to be up and running so they can collect some of the stuff i made.
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Some of the highlights from 2022 key west village
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The boat that Mark built. 50 foot—“MOONLIGHT LADY”. Took him eight years and a lot of blood—sweat and tears [and hard earned cash]. Was built for him and Vicky’s retirement, unfortunately she never made it due to mitigating circumstances.
He decided to sell it and move on.
Bought one of those “feck off” big old American RV’S. took me down to key west last year for the offshore races last november.
Lot of my old friends were there —-Brett and Carol May——RICH and Doreen LUHRS —-Benny—-Arthur—and a host more.
Mind you , we did have a prime position in the pits ,situated next to the “HUSKI and X Insurance”teams . Sometimes it helps to have friends in high places .
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A few more of my friends —AIMEE is a newer friend , she’s the one in the middle between Grand daughter Louise and my son Mark.
Next one is Arthur—Benny— I forgot his name —and Mark.
Wasn’t the best of weather that week —- but hell—that’s KEY WEST.
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NIGHT TIME IN THE VILLAGE AT KEY WEST—. One of those damn places that opens at eight and closes whenever ——-toilets next to the conch restaurant—-never can tell who you will meet and what is happening !!!!!!!!
Well, there you go with the funny words again, Jackie. At least you didn’t you lose your vocabulary in the hospital and the old grace cells are functioning by the way what is a plinth? Is that like a bird perch with a lisp we colonials still don’t understand you sometimes, glad you’re out of the hospital and harassing people again. All the best Amberjack.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Cheers Charlie, You know as well as i do there is absolutely no excuse for bad English —- dialects are a different kettle of fish . I really do try to dot the i`s and cross the tees . Just the way i was taught by my English teachers .