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On problem sharing
Posted September 22nd, 2008 by timminockyI’ve been having problems with my boats engine for quite some time now. Unfortunately I’m not that good with engines but I am learning (the hard way). Now, don’t please ask what the original problem was ‘cause I’ve been messing with it for so long I’ve forgotten. |
Spring is sprung.
Posted March 20th, 2008 by timminockyToday, Thursday 20th of March is a cathexic date in the astronomical calendar. |
The Queen of England, Elizabeth II, has won "squatter's rights" over the mud at the bottom of St Pierre Pill.
Posted March 7th, 2008 by timminockySt Pierre Pill is the muddy creek, where the Chepstow and District Yacht Club have their moorings. The queen came to the rescue of the club after Mark Roberts a controversial Cardiff businessman who owns the paper title "Lord Marcher of Magor", among others claimed that it gave him rights to the land. |
Rebuilding Mignonne
Posted February 4th, 2008 by timminockyMany years ago, in the boat yard where I kept a previous boat, there were a couple of lovely old sailing cruisers, which had been abandoned, for whatever reasons the owners had left them to rot. One in particular had clearly been a little gem in her hay day. I kept hoping that someone would buy her and restore her to her former glory. Back then, I had neither the time nor the courage to take her on. Then one day the yard owners took a chain saw to her! |
Dumbing Down
Posted December 2nd, 2007 by timminockyA woman and her SL500 Mercedes landed in deep water after her satellite navigation system guided her into a river. |
The Sail
Posted November 25th, 2007 by timminocky
Bumblebees can’t fly. Or so says conventional theories on aerodynamics. |


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