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In Royal Navy usage, what did the jolly roger signify when flown by a submarine returning to port in the Second World War?
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Here is one for Javier Milei
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@Steves-s I don’t like the venue and was away on leave anyway - by all accounts not a patch on what it used to be
SouthportPat
Yes you're right, another 30 days to get back to the original score .
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I enquired about you on the Southport stand at Blackpool last week on the Saturday, you must have been AWOL 😂😁.
Steves-s
SouthportPat
Yes you're right, another 30 days to get back to the original score .
😑😑
I enquired about you on the Southport stand at Blackpool last week on the Saturday, you must have been AWOL 😂😁.
Yes you're right, another 30 days to get back to the original score .
😑😑
I enquired about you on the Southport stand at Blackpool last week on the Saturday, you must have been AWOL 😂😁.
@Steves-s Well that beggars our scores up if you bothered about that
Hi Pat, I haven't been able to get on the site also.😐😐
I thought that I had messed something up on my phone 🤔 so I went on my pc and that wouldn't load up the website from my emails either.😣😥 I spent too much time on Google for a set of answers and tried most of the options.😲😟😢 None worked.
I was about to give up on the website and not bother any more, then I thought that you all might think that I had " kicked the bucket--popped my clogs "..☠😱👹.
Anyway I have just had to log back in ( having put in the wrong password 3 times )💥💥. All I need to do now is find out why I haven't been getting any model boat emails since 22nd of September...
Steves-s
Hi Pat, I haven't been able to get on the site also.😐😐
I thought that I had messed something up on my phone 🤔 so I went on my pc and that wouldn't load up the website from my emails either.😣😥 I spent too much time on Google for a set of answers and tried most of the options.😲😟😢 None worked.
I was about to give up on the website and not bother any more, then I thought that you all might think that I had " kicked the bucket--popped my clogs "..☠😱👹.
Anyway I have just had to log back in ( having put in the wrong password 3 times )💥💥. All I need to do now is find out why I haven't been getting any model boat emails since 22nd of September...
I thought that I had messed something up on my phone 🤔 so I went on my pc and that wouldn't load up the website from my emails either.😣😥 I spent too much time on Google for a set of answers and tried most of the options.😲😟😢 None worked.
I was about to give up on the website and not bother any more, then I thought that you all might think that I had " kicked the bucket--popped my clogs "..☠😱👹.
Anyway I have just had to log back in ( having put in the wrong password 3 times )💥💥. All I need to do now is find out why I haven't been getting any model boat emails since 22nd of September...
Has this site been down the last couple of days had trouble getting in 😓
Roy showing my age " hello my darlings" Charley Drake
Ed well that sound a tad highbrow. OKAY I'm a full bottle on Poo Sticks floating under a bridge Col
ColRay
Ed well that sound a tad highbrow. OKAY I'm a full bottle on Poo Sticks floating under a bridge Col
It seems I know more about the Owl and the pussy cat than I do about the Drake fella!
Roy
roycv
It seems I know more about the Owl and the pussy cat than I do about the Drake fella!
Roy
Roy
What happened to the website and app yesterday - just got a blank white page on both - then the same this morning - only way in was reading a QOD post?
luckyduck
What happened to the website and app yesterday - just got a blank white page on both - then the same this morning - only way in was reading a QOD post?
@ColRay
Yesterday - In which year did Francis Drake complete his circumnavigation by returning to Plymouth?
Today - How long was the sailing trip undertaken by the owl and the pussy-cat, according to Edaward Lear's poem?
Hello Ed so what was the question ? Col
Finally managed to access the site and catch up
Who!
Roy
When I read the QOD ... my first thought was what brand of beer is on tap on board.
After reading the possible answers, I had to go with the one that ended up being correct,
Dave
DWBrinkman
When I read the QOD ... my first thought was what brand of beer is on tap on board.
After reading the possible answers, I had to go with the one that ended up being correct,
Dave
After reading the possible answers, I had to go with the one that ended up being correct,
Dave
I call it 'keep on taking the tablets and all be okay. Col
I call it my 'Senior's Moment'.
Around here we just call it SOMETIMERS. (sometimes I remember, some🤒times I forget)
On thinking further about the doorway effect, or brain wipe as I call it. It is not all bad! Some years ago I came in from the shed, sorry workshop, and in to the house and my mind went blank. So, I opened my laptop to seek solace, as you do, and did my usual search for model yachts.
Great was my acclaim when I found 2 almost identical models totally misidentified. They were beautifully made 32 inch hulls built by someone with a seeking mind as just the keel weights were different with a flush cast weight with the keel and the other with a torpedo shape. I would imagine to see the differences when sailing.
His expertise did not extend above deck and the sails would never have proved anything. It was a trip to Salisbury to purchase them, so far one is in sail and works very well the other is having some more thought poured over it.
There is always a silver lining somewhere!
Roy
roycv
On thinking further about the doorway effect, or brain wipe as I call it. It is not all bad! Some years ago I came in from the shed, sorry workshop, and in to the house and my mind went blank. So, I opened my laptop to seek solace, as you do, and did my usual search for model yachts.
Great was my acclaim when I found 2 almost identical models totally misidentified. They were beautifully made 32 inch hulls built by someone with a seeking mind as just the keel weights were different with a flush cast weight with the keel and the other with a torpedo shape. I would imagine to see the differences when sailing.
His expertise did not extend above deck and the sails would never have proved anything. It was a trip to Salisbury to purchase them, so far one is in sail and works very well the other is having some more thought poured over it.
There is always a silver lining somewhere!
Roy
Great was my acclaim when I found 2 almost identical models totally misidentified. They were beautifully made 32 inch hulls built by someone with a seeking mind as just the keel weights were different with a flush cast weight with the keel and the other with a torpedo shape. I would imagine to see the differences when sailing.
His expertise did not extend above deck and the sails would never have proved anything. It was a trip to Salisbury to purchase them, so far one is in sail and works very well the other is having some more thought poured over it.
There is always a silver lining somewhere!
Roy
roy I recall a bucketload of names for it , but cant think of one Col