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rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
 Posted: 21-06-2013 20:27 Post subject: |
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An update on the Windrose incident:
Drugs raid yacht 'carrying £20m of cocaine'
A yacht where a skipper plunged to his death during a raid by border officials had drugs with a street value of about £20m on board.
The Border Force raided the Windrose on Monday after it was towed into the Isles of Scilly.
The skipper, believed to be a 62-year-old Dutch national, fell from the ship's mast during the raid.
A search of the yacht found 200kgs (440lbs) of what was believed to be cocaine, the Border Force said.
The agency said: "The drugs have now been removed from the Windrose and taken to a secure location for further analysis."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-23007154 |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 22-06-2013 22:09 Post subject: |
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| uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1088 Gender: Male |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 30-06-2013 19:15 Post subject: |
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On page 1. of The Lone Coastguard, I posted:
| Quote: | I've been looking more closely at the coverage of the AIS stations used by marinetraffic.com
One, for Falmouth, showed the harbour and bay, and out as far as Scilly.
Another, for Falmouth Harbour, showed coverage of Antigua and Barbuda!
Which was really rather nice, as I'd been in Falmouth Harbour, Antigua just months before I moved to Falmouth, Cornwall, twenty-odd years ago!
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Today I noticed on AIS that Provident (one of my old vessels) is in Falmouth. I clicked for more info, and found 19 photos. But one of them looked very like one of mine that I'd posted on one of my web-sites! Had someone 'borrowed' it and put it on marinetraffic.com website? I went to check, and to my surprise, I'd posted it myself, two years ago, and forgotten about it! The details were correct, but I noticed you could click for a map of the location...
...and I found a map of Antigua! |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 989 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 57 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-07-2013 06:20 Post subject: |
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If you can't react in 3.2 seconds you shouldn't be driving. Surely their numbers are wrong? |
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| special_farces Great Old One Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Total posts: 166 Location: Leeds Age: 48 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 07-07-2013 10:24 Post subject: Marmalade |
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Weeks ago, for the first time in years, we bought a jar of Robertsons marmalade. Liz pointed out that they were offering Paddington Bear badges - and dropped hints that she'd-very-much-like-one. I had a bit of work to do this morning, so as the computer was on I decided to look up the Paddington web address on the jar.
A few minutes after that (after deciding I can just about stretch to £1.10 for a badge) the Paddington theme was played on Radio 4's Broadcasting House. Best make the order. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-07-2013 17:42 Post subject: |
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On Tuesday I was on a bus, and we passed a length of new wooden fencing. It was a bright golden colour, and I wondered what preservative was used on it. Then I got to thinking that you don't see creosote around much these days - that's what my father used on bare wood when I was a boy. That evening, I came across a mention of creosote in my library book!
That wasn't the end of it though. I finished that book and started a new one, and creosote played quite a major role this time - it was used in an apparent act of attempted arson! The book goes on to mention that creosote is a banned substance nowadays because of its adverse effects on health.
Now for something different: yesterday I posted a review of the Lone Ranger film on this MB. Today, at the climax of the action in the second library book, our hero takes a short-cut, using a horse, to where he fears some kids have fallen into the hands of the baddies. This proves to be true, and the chief baddie mocks him with "Well, if it ain't the f*ckin' Lone Ranger!" (This is taking place in Wiltshire, not the wild west, BTW!)
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| Fluttermoth Mrs Treguard
Great Old One Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Total posts: 376 Location: Cornwall, GB Age: 43 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 12-07-2013 19:50 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | The book goes on to mention that creosote is a banned substance nowadays because of its adverse effects on health.
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Awww! I love the smell of creosote! Used to love it when the water board creosoted their long fence on my walk to school  |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-07-2013 09:03 Post subject: |
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My latest library book, with a story set in sunny Sussex by the sea, also contained a couple of Lone Ranger comments!
On a grimmer note, this, from the local paper:
| Quote: | The funeral of a Helston man killed in a horrific motorbike accident near Hayle takes place tomorrow.
Andrew Prowse, 45, suffered horrendous injuries when his Kawasaki bike was involved in an eight-vehicle pile-up on the A30 Hayle bypass near Loggans roundabout.
Mr Prowse, of Oates Road, Helston, was declared dead at the scene.
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It is not the first time residents of Oates Road have lost one of their number in a motorbike accident. Three years ago, Helston Community College student Ryan Williams, who lived with his mother, Pam, in the flat above Mr Prowse, died when his bike was in collision with a car on the B3302 Helston to Hayle road at Sithney.
Neighbours said this week they were horrified that another tragedy had struck so close to home.
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/2406932.Shock_as_biker_dies_in_horrific_accident/?ref=mr
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 28-07-2013 09:48 Post subject: |
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Those of you who aren't following my Lone Coastguard thread have missed a remarkable coincidence recently:
On Thursday evening I witnessed (via Automatic Identification System) a helicopter medevac from the cruise ship Balmoral in the English Channel.
(Incident starts here:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1339072#1339072 )
Then on Saturday morning I suspected another medevac from the same ship in the North Sea!
( http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1339579#1339579 )
This rescue was then confirmed by a BBC news story.
Now there are lots of cruise ships out there (Balmoral was one of FIVE that left Southampton late friday afternoon!), not to mention coasters, fishing vessels. tankers, yachts, warships, etc, but obviously I can't monitor them all 24/7, so it's quite remarkable that I should have picked up these two incidents involving the same ship.
More details on the LC thread - take a Stugeron if you're worried about seasickness!  |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17709 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 3 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 28-07-2013 11:12 Post subject: |
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Waiting by Techy's car for him this morning with some shopping and thought randomly 'If this bloke walking towards me were Techy, we could be away in a minute instead of hanging around…' 
Just then, someone called out Techy's name, and the man turned and answered. He had the same name, if not the rugged good looks.
What're the chances, eh! Eh! Eh! |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5543 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 21:23 Post subject: |
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On Monday, I was watching and listening to a powerful storm over Manchester. The heavens were supplying a good stereophonic account of their timpani. My mind drifted over the romantic connotations of storms and I was haunted by the dialogue between the shepherd's pipe (cor anglais) and timpani in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz. I wondered when I had last heard it and when I would hear it again.
A couple of hours later, the extract I played in my head turned up in the Finale of the Counterpoint music quiz on Radio 4!
I am always dubious of coincidences which involve current popular culture or items in the news. The Berlioz piece is hardly obscure but I had not thought of it for years and to hear it twice - once, as it were, anticipated in my own head - seems worth recording. 
edit: Minor rewording, some literals corrected.
edit2: Two more literals bite the dust! |
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| uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1088 Gender: Male |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 20321 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-08-2013 21:37 Post subject: |
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Another library book one: my current crime novel has a woman host a party at her house, allegedly to celebrate the fitting of a new kitchen. But since the party seems closer to an orgy, I doubt anyone paid much attention to the fittings or decor in the kitchen!
But two murders follow, and the Police machine grinds into gear to investigate...
The coincidence is that I'm reading this while my kitchen is being refitted! (What are the chances of that, eh?)
The work started yesterday, and is largely finished already, apart from some grouting and wiring.
Which is nice. But I'm too old for orgies...  |
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