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Inter-rail 1999 .
like many the birth of your kids after that
seeing my daughter recover from a major operation
seeing my lad represent Wales in 2 different sports
Losing my virginity. Not sure Father Brendan felt the same though
Gulf of Mexico, we're off Alabama, but moved east to avoid the hurricane, the peregrines came with us, and returned with us. They been half heartedly pestering some of the seabirds, Magnificent Frigate Birds (see photo), Booby's and Little Egrets (you'll have seen loads being an angler) they call them Snowy Egrets over here. I watch Peregrines a lot at home, the Wales coastal path has plenty, and there's a pair at Porthkerry.
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They seem to be eating plenty.
Peregrine meal.jpg
Was in the Merchant Navy, offshore now, Crane Operator on a pipelayer, we're gradually getting shunted out of this industry too. We've got Filipino's on here operating the smaller cranes. Can't be many British jobs in the Merchant Navy now, RFA, some ferries, used to have a massive fleet.
I graduated out of Denton, Gravesend in January '78 as a' deckie'. Never went to sea though, I was missing a homelife I never really had. I didn't take the ship that was lined up for me (Holder Bros, Liverpool - South Africa) - one of my life's regrets when I look back on it.
My mate, also from Cardiff (we were both at Gravesend together), used to send me postcards from the Shell tankers he was on, all of the crew pictured on deck, wearing just shorts and flip-flops with a can of beer in hand. This was early '80s...they probably thought they had jobs for life at that time.
Now, any still lucky enough to be employed on ferries are wearing boilersuits, hard-hats, steel toe caps and high-viz... how times have changed, eh!