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by pommystuart
Thu Nov 21, 2024 2:42 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Chat
Replies: 2780
Views: 462566

FYI (and mine)

Not sure how to drive this but someone maybe able to work out how to see the photos.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans ... our-oceans
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Word game: Anagrammatic variations
Replies: 215
Views: 83104

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

Count me as a (mix)

seconder

for that idea.
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:51 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Transcriber Weather
Replies: 1260
Views: 232429

Re: Transcriber Weather

Sorry, but it is a lovely 21c here with a light breeze.
Don't worry you will get your own back at me in about 7 months when we have winter. :D :D
:kangaroo:
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Transcriber Weather
Replies: 1260
Views: 232429

Re: Transcriber Weather

A bit more than a breeze by the look of it.
:kangaroo:
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:10 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Transcriber Weather
Replies: 1260
Views: 232429

Re: Transcriber Weather

A tad nippy and breezy I guess.
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:21 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

Today (19th over your way) is World Toilet Day.
Pity I cannot fit that in the grid so lets go with the sad news that on 16 Nov 1960 (O13-17) Clark (L01-P01) Gable died.
by pommystuart
Tue Nov 19, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Word game: Anagrammatic variations
Replies: 215
Views: 83104

Re: Word game: Anagrammatic variations

I trust you would not use (-h+o)

obscene

words in your routine.
by pommystuart
Tue Nov 19, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Word game: Last letters link
Replies: 166
Views: 59448

Re: Word game: Last letters link

I wonder if you could get the Bummble bee bats to go away by throwing

Lychees

at them.
by pommystuart
Tue Nov 19, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

Good to hear you supporting the little guy.
by pommystuart
Tue Nov 19, 2024 4:33 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

Did you buy your yams at Covent Garden?

8th November 1974 The world famous fruit and vegetable market at (C02-C07) Covent (D01 down I01) Garden in London closes after existing for more than 300 years.
by pommystuart
Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:17 am
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1tIFF9.img?w=1920&h=1080&q=60&m=2&f=jpg If you've seen these incredible photos of people setting off floating lanterns that peacefully lift over bodies of water by beautiful temples, and always wondered where that happened, w...
by pommystuart
Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:20 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Transcriber Weather
Replies: 1260
Views: 232429

FYI

Found this page on the new BOM site re Australia ( and Global) weather. Click on the 7 tabs for more info.
Not the most optomistic report.

http://www.bom.gov.au/state-of-the-climate/index.shtml
by pommystuart
Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:12 pm
Forum: USS Tuscarora
Topic: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 44
Views: 2183

Re: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

That was another one of my ships.
I don't know why the crews don't like me. :( :cry:
by pommystuart
Sun Nov 17, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: USS Tuscarora
Topic: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 44
Views: 2183

Re: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

They are starting to come down heavy on the crew for being naughty. Francis Daniels (CFC) having been brought aft the following sentance of a summary Court Martial, he having been found guilty of swimming ashore and leaving ship without permission was read to him-vig: Solitary confinement, in double...
by pommystuart
Sun Nov 17, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

3rd November 1843 The statue of (E20-H20) Lord (I01-I06) Nelson was hauled to the top of the column in Trafalgar Square (London UK). https://www.lambertsouvenirs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/nelsons-column.png The designer of this monument was a Mr William Railton and the sculptor a Mr E H Bailey ...
by pommystuart
Sun Nov 17, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: USS Tuscarora
Topic: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 44
Views: 2183

Re: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

The main mast was condemned whilst we were (I think in Apia) we now have been in Hololulu for a week and a half with no further mention of the mast.
Looks like it's going to be a Mare Id job.
by pommystuart
Fri Nov 15, 2024 11:37 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

5th November (D04-D02) Tar (N01-06)barrel Racing, Ottery, St Mary, Devon. Dont ask, I have no idea why they do it either.
(Cannot now find a place for barrel.)

https://www.tarbarrels.co.uk/
by pommystuart
Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Dockside Cafe
Topic: Not exactly Scrabble...
Replies: 50
Views: 4042

Re: Not exactly Scrabble...

7th November 1876 (N20 back N16) Marie (N12 - N16) Curie, a Polish-French Chemist and Physicist, who discovered radium, was born.
by pommystuart
Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: USS Tuscarora
Topic: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 44
Views: 2183

Re: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

As far as I can remember 1875 so far has only sounding depths. Will look more carefully Mid June on. From 1876 Stopped for a cast.08.57 started wire out:- 09.54 reached bottom at 3540 fathoms, 09.55 started wire in:- at 10.00 wire parted. Lost 3410 fathoms wire and one sounding cylinder. Interesting...
by pommystuart
Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: USS Tuscarora
Topic: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...
Replies: 44
Views: 2183

Re: Tuscarora (1875): links, questions, comments, coordination, ...

Mid day main mast was condemmed and we are now under power.
The course should not change that much till we reach Hololulu. :D :D
525 mile to go.

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