where's Moony?

^

Impressive pix.

Thanks for the enthralling career updates. Always loved the sea, but never sailed anything bigger than an Enterprise dinghy in a flooded gravel pit in Shepperton (SW London) as a schoolboy. That doesn't really count.

Looks idyllic.

..ah...idyll

On day one we were on the deck for 21 hours straight. Day two was a little easier. Day three, we were out there again for 21 hours.

...ah...idyll

^

I see. It's not all snoozing on pizza cartons, then?

...oh no eddie. it dawned on me after 21 hours on the deck I might actually die.

blue moon wrote:it dawned on me after 21 hours on the deck I might actually die

Samuel Beckett's last poem:



Da Tagte Es

redeem the surrogate goodbyes
the sheet astream in your hand
who have no more for the land
and the glass unmisted above your eyes

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blue moon wrote:I'll sort 7 tons of prawns with him and my pace won't alter. Not once. Neither will his. We will like each other for that.

This is not the kind of sentence one normally encounters on the standard online message board.

I'll try to track down Peter Cook's lonely Norwegian fisherman Sven's musings on fish phone-in radio shows and the inexplicable disappearance of his wife Jutta.

^

There you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPJK2zKtAxQ
Sven's first call to Clive Bull's late-night phone-in show on London's LBC Radio.

eddie wrote:This is not the kind of sentence one normally encounters on the standard online message board.

...I'll have to lift my game then

^^
Don't do that, for God's sake. It's perfect as it is.

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I thought I saw something here, where these words I'm writing lay now.
But I couldn't decode the meaning

jade spinetta wrote:(to be read with Zappa's voice)

It is not zappa's... it is clapton's

hello guacamayo...

pinhedz wrote:What turned Jade into a "Guest?" Has there been a mishap?

Very odd. I received an e-mail to say she had deleted herself, I didn't even know members could do that?

Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:

pinhedz wrote:What turned Jade into a "Guest?" Has there been a mishap?

Very odd. I received an e-mail to say she had deleted herself, I didn't even know members could do that?

...she's still registered as silviando.

blue moon wrote:

Nah Ville Sky Chick wrote:

pinhedz wrote:What turned Jade into a "Guest?" Has there been a mishap?

Very odd. I received an e-mail to say she had deleted herself, I didn't even know members could do that?

...she's still registered as silviando.

Yes, but how did she delete herself? I have checked admin section and that facility is switched off

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blue moon wrote:My mum died last night.
I thought she would live forever.

Really sorry to hear that, Moony. Nothing prepares you for it. Lost both parents myself, so....

Ages ago I started a "Death in the family" thread in Off Topic.

I'll give it a while before returning to it, though.

Love & thoughts, Moony,

Ed xx

blue moon wrote:My mum died last night.
I thought she would live forever.

Oh Moony, I'm so sorry to hear that. My condolences to you and your family.

I lost my dad about six years ago but my mom is still going strong at 85 years old. Tom's mother is 93.
Both live independently but my mom walks very slowly in baby steps with a walker and cane. I do a lot for her - she and my father moved up here to be closer to me. I also drive my mother-in-law around to MDs and so forth.

I hope your mom lived to a good old age.

Best,
Constance

I lost my mother last year. It is a tough time for you and your family.

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For what it's worth: the necessary practicalities tend to get you through the early stages: funeral arrangements, legal matters (registering the death) etc.

It's only afterwards that it really hits you. You never really get over it, of course, but the worst lasts a year or so.

The old custom of wearing black to signify a bereavement had at least this to recommend it: it signified HANDLE WITH CARE. For a time, you become hypersensitive. Everyone's experience is different, but that was mine.

Bereavement counselling is probably a good thing. I wish I'd been aware that such a thing actually existed when I was going through the worst of it.

Good to hear you've been getting a lot of community support.

X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c&feature=related
Box of Rain

...ah eddie, your words were prescient. i woke up this morning feeling tough as nails.
And then someone arrived at the door with flowers.