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  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444
    edited December 1969

    Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and a safe enjoyable voyage

  • ElowanElowan Posts: 388
    edited December 1969

    skipper25 said:
    Some day, when I am not so busy, I will post the whole story of the website. In the meantime, thanks for the greetings, everyone. Currently I have a half-finished model of London's Tower Bridge on the stocks, but heaven knows when - if ever - it will get finished, for on January 14 we slip out of Southampton on a voyage around the world. We are due back 9th May. Bye!.....................................
    Happy Xmas everyone.

    Merry Xmas and bon voyage!

  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Bon Voyage. May you have smooth sailing. It sounds exciting.

  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Simon - look in your PM box.

  • gingercakes47gingercakes47 Posts: 382
    edited December 1969

    Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Bon Voyage. :)

  • music2u4umusic2u4u Posts: 2,822
    edited December 1969

    Good luck on your trip Skipper...batton down the hatches...smooth sailing ahead!

    :-)

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    music2u4u said:
    Good luck on your trip Skipper...batton down the hatches...smooth sailing ahead!

    :-)

    Forgive my possible ignorance, but why would you batten down the hatches if there's smooth sailing ahead?

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    music2u4u said:
    Good luck on your trip Skipper...batton down the hatches...smooth sailing ahead!

    :-)

    Forgive my possible ignorance, but why would you batten down the hatches if there's smooth sailing ahead?
    To keep the troublemakers out of the way? ;)

  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,698
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    music2u4u said:
    Good luck on your trip Skipper...batton down the hatches...smooth sailing ahead!

    :-)

    Forgive my possible ignorance, but why would you batten down the hatches if there's smooth sailing ahead?

    To keep below-decks behaviour out of high-angle lines of sight. Obviously.

  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    LOL. Right!
    BTW, there is going through my head, "I don't care where the water goes as long as it's not into the wine," but I can't recall where it comes from. Can anyone help?

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    skipper25 said:
    LOL. Right!
    BTW, there is going through my head, "I don't care where the water goes as long as it's not into the wine," but I can't recall where it comes from. Can anyone help?

    check the cargo and hatch for the hole - I guess that what you wanted .

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    skipper25 said:
    LOL. Right!
    BTW, there is going through my head, "I don't care where the water goes as long as it's not into the wine," but I can't recall where it comes from. Can anyone help?

    “And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
    ‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.”

    ― G.K. Chesterton, Wine and Water

    Cheers

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    skipper25 said:
    LOL. Right!
    BTW, there is going through my head, "I don't care where the water goes as long as it's not into the wine," but I can't recall where it comes from. Can anyone help?

    “And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
    ‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.”

    ― G.K. Chesterton, Wine and Water

    Cheers
    I REALLY have to read some Chesterton! :)

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    SimonJM said:
    chohole said:
    skipper25 said:
    LOL. Right!
    BTW, there is going through my head, "I don't care where the water goes as long as it's not into the wine," but I can't recall where it comes from. Can anyone help?

    “And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
    ‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.”

    ― G.K. Chesterton, Wine and Water

    Cheers


    I REALLY have to read some Chesterton! :)
    Here's some to get you started:
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/80
  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,698
    edited December 1969

    Chesterton is practically peerless among English-language poets, I contend. The short list includes Tolkien, Eliot, GKC, Donne, Chesterton, Poe, Edwin A. Robinson, perhaps Hopkins, Chesterton... ;)

  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for that, Chohole. Very clever of you. Robkelk too. That's a useful page.
    Still on a literary theme, on 17th Feb we are due to drop anchor off Robinson Crusoe Island (pop. 110). It used to be called Juan Fernadez, but they're cashing in. I guess that we will have to go ashore by tender, so with my mobility problems I may not make it. We'll see.

  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Hello to all of my old friends and acquaintances! After an amazing four-month trip all around the world, I am once more back home.

    Southampton back to Southampton, taking in places such as Rio - Ushuaia - Valparaiso - Robinson Crusoe - Pitcairn - Tahiti - New Zealand - Australia - Borneo - India - Crete - what a trip !!! I did not immediately log on here because there has been so much to do, such as writing-up a whole barrel-load of notes and memories before I forget them, then sorting/editing something over 1000 photographs. The end of that mammoth task is in sight however, and I expect to upload it all to cloud storage within a few days.

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  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Whoops. Double pic. I guess that I am out of practice. :-)

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,982
    edited December 1969

    skipper25 said:
    Whoops. Double pic. I guess that I am out of practice. :-)

    LOL, I just thought it was a stereo image ... ;)
  • Lord GanthorLord Ganthor Posts: 592
    edited December 1969

    Welcome back and congratulations on your 'round the world adventures! Judging by the picture you didn't have to suffer through a horrible winter like we did...we as in those of us on the Western edge of the pond. Not really sure what it did in your neighborhood. At any rate, nice to see you back and glad you had a good time.

    So, when are you taking your next one? You can't do it just once, ya know?

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Before and after? Southampton sure has changed.

    Welcome back!

  • robkelkrobkelk Posts: 3,259
    edited December 1969

    Let me be the first... second... okay, third to say "Welcome back!"

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    And the fourth Welcome back Skipper. Glad you had a great time.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,209
    edited December 1969

    Welcome back, Skipper! What a great voyage and adventure, I'm sure!

    Dana

  • teriperkins_bfd4324187teriperkins_bfd4324187 Posts: 206
    edited December 1969

    I am soooo jealous. That sounds like a fantastic trip! Glad you got to go and made it back safe and sound. WE WANT PICTURES! Awesome list of places.

  • bighbigh Posts: 8,147
    edited December 1969

    welcome back mate

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,444
    edited December 1969

    Welcome back sounds like you had a wonderful trip

  • WilmapWilmap Posts: 2,917
    edited December 1969

    Sounds like an amazing trip.

    Welcome back Skipper.

  • RAMWolffRAMWolff Posts: 10,212
    edited December 1969

    Welcome back Sir. Sounds like you and yours had a really great time. :-)

  • skipper25skipper25 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Thank you all for a heart-warming welcome home. Yes, it has been a great trip. I will have something for everyone in a few days.

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