On my only channel isles ferry trip the crew were throwing up. they said it was the roughest they had been in.
AFAIK there was only me and my daughter that weren't sick. The smell has put me off ferries.
On my only channel isles ferry trip the crew were throwing up. they said it was the roughest they had been in.
AFAIK there was only me and my daughter that weren't sick. The smell has put me off ferries.
Yes, I expect the gusts will seek out naughty streets and protect and preserve nice streets. We must be in the latter category, since I'm sorry to report to the doom-mongers that there is no storm here near Spalding/Boston, despite the fact that we are right under that large arrow on the Met Office's Dire Warnings of Death Map yesterday evening.
MM
Will they also check whether it's one of those longer trains calling at the longer platforms that have been promised for years?
MM
I'm still waiting for someone to invent weather forecasting that works. Have they never heard of chaos theory?
Well, if they ~will~ eat chips! I crossed the Channel a hundred times during the 1970s, Dover to Oostende, when I was a guest worker over in West Germany. Never sick once. Mind you, I didn't eat chips.
MM
I believe the storm has been told by the Weather Vane (a stalwart fellow who works for God) to blow itself out by the start of the One O'clock News, else there'll be hell to pay.
MM
Has no one here ever heard of Kwells?
MM
Gawd the most foul tasting tablet I have ever taken, worse than penecillin. When I was young I'd get car sick within 100 miles, parents would give me Kwells might make 120 miles then...
In the '70s a mate and I went Fishguard - Cork. At an hour late, the Captain announced that we'd be putting out as the wind had gone from F11 to 10! I assumed that he'd consider sailing as we'd be straight into the wind(?)
Mate and I were well tanked up by this time and neither of us suffered from sea sickness. I wandered off out of the bar eating a pork pie. On reflection and judging by the reactions, that might have been a tad cruel.
Um, those couldn't have been Kwells (unless they've changed their formulation). Kwells today are almost completely tasteless.
Tim
never worked for me - I used Avomine
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and Diana.
The foulest-tasting medicine I've ever taken was a throat sedative spray prior to a gastroscopy.
MM
Well I last took 'em in the '70's...
I'm a much better traveller, even as a passenger, since I started driving in '78. Still not keen on boats that move about on waves unless I can see the horizon, same on planes in turbulance.
who is Diana?
Well quite. And there's pictures today about the demise of some rock nonentity that I'd never heard of.
The Saturday mag in the Times is now completely content-free. It includes a couple of pages by that Caitlin Moran (Who she? - Ed) about a whole list of nonentities.
Oddly enough, I had heard of *him*.
AS I was just saying to my wife 'the man who vchonicled te seedy unbderbelley of New York - as if anyone who hade lived there, even for a couple of days, didnt know'.
Memorable trip that. A gay wedding with punch spiked with LSD.
1973...all very silly really.
'was' not 'is'.
how would I know?
I did a Harwich/Hook in the 60s where our night crossing arrived an hour after the next day's day crossing. We had been up the German coast all night after failing to get into the harbour. All good fun, but nowadays the Woolwich ferry gives me the creeps :-)
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