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Jolie Brise entering Teignmouth harbour. The ship was built in Teignmouth and is now owned by a school. The mahoosive Wetherspoons pub in Teignmouth is named after her.

Sail training ship Stavros S Niarchos entering Teignmouth harbour

USS Iowa, Portsmouth, UK, naval yard.

Another of my old "boats" the 42,000 ton SS Oriana in Pago Pago. Credit to original photographer.

Yes, I am wrong.

One of my old "boats" SS Orsova, a real cruise ship, berthed in Pago Pago.

Endurance in dry dock

Teignmouth quay last year

Falmouth, circa 1991

Evidently! Dropping your handbag might be dodgy whilst wearing a dry suit.

There you go again. Dropping your aitches.

Sunny today in sunny Teignmouth, however, clouds rolling in from time to time. Some great vids on FB of the Big Boy rolling again in the US of A.

Lets give it one anyway.

'ere don't bring Polly into this she needs to step up. Did you used to go cruising or wasn't it a cabin cruiser? I wonder if they go dogging. Maybe they call it sealing. I'm off for a glass of red and drown my Spurs sorrows. Sometimes I wish I hadn't been born in Norf lundun.

Slip of tongue

I love licquor

Sosban fach! The Scarlets? It's the Chiefs down here. It's Teignmouth not Burry Port

on buttered crumpets

with liquorice laces

choux pastry tarts

It's overcast in sunny Teignmouth today. It's great living in a small town. You can easily tell when the cheap coach holidays are in town for the day because on an overcast day with a hint of dampness the cafes are full of people wearing jackets and scarves. Voting was done and as usual I was told that by my leaving my electorate card the council have to store it for 12 months. My reply was to take it up with central government. I wonder if mine is the sole one in storage. The local elections might be interesting this year because recently the council decided to extend the dog walking on the main beach ban. Instead of running beginning of May to end of Oct it now starts the beginning of April. In April this year apart from Easter weekend the beach was deserted of deckchair sitting occupants because the weather was pretty adverse. However, to rub salt into the wound, the sand also left the beach but the dog walking part of the beach was quite resplendent in recently deposited sand. A few years ago the council announced that the beach "award" scheme was under threat because birds roosting under the pier poo in the water. No sh1t sherlock! This year they questioned about removing the rocks and boulders that have been left by the sand being scoured away. Almost as though a volunteer army would go down and collect rocks, boulders & stones. Just a few months ago councils around the country were warning people that they could not collect pebbles off of beaches. It's cyclical, the sand goes down and days, weeks, months later it builds up again and days, weeks, months .......... you get my drift. I have photographed it on several occasions. It can vary several metres in just a few days. I'm off to watch the pigeons poo on an empty beach.

I wasn't getting any banner ads until today and now I blooming well is.

or vegemite Transportees

My missus has had 3 missed calls in recent days from 07418349917 (IIRC) saying if she doesn't phone back a warrant will be issued for her arrest.

Perhaps he meant the church porch?