11-02-2018, 06:20 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Good effort that Mr Jr.
[QUOTE=Sweetie pie;1339193]
I've been doing a lot of that, well, with my hands a hand or two higher to be precise, and a bit further round the front.
My Lovely has bought some new bras so I been a-testing them. Well I used to be a Test Engineer so it seemed fitting that I keep my hand in, or out, or on the button as it were.
2BSH each I reckon just in case you were wondering.
Ah now, boats and things nautical is it? Well I nowt about them, me having been in the aerospace business an all.
Now my Mum and her lot did a lot of boating, but as passengers.
Granddad left Blighty in 1919, having survived WW1 as an artilleryman, and sailed to Oz to start a farm. He sent for his fiancé, my Granny, three years later and they were wed in Perth the day after she landed, having had the banns read on the boat.
My Mum was born in Oz, but there were problems so when it was time for my Uncle to be born, my Mum and her Mum sailed all the way back to England, then all the way back again with a newborn in tow.
Years later they had to give up the farm and the whole family sailed back to England.
Different boats and different routes were had, some via a big canal, and others round the horn. That's a lot of knots they travelled.
I donated a load of memorabilia my Granny kept from one of the round trips, to a museum in Oz.
The ship was TSS Jervis Bay, one of the "bay liners" belonging to the Edinburg and Commonwealth Line. During WW2 it was converted to an armed merchantman. It got sunk by a German pocket battleship whilst acting as sole escort for a convoy from Nova Scotia to the UK.
There was a film about it made called San Demetrio, London, which was one of the ships in the convoy that made it home.