Thought he might be ! - am resolutely reading this the correct way despite going backwards through all the pages I have missed this is great with lovely intelligent humour characteristic of Mylodon as ever
And before he’d discovered that he couldn’t even cross the Solent on the Isle of Wight ferry without losing his dinner at Spithead.
have recently learne from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue that a sailor who was seasick even in port was known as an Admiral of the Narrow Seas - is couldn't be allowed anywhere beyond the channel....
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Date: 2011-05-15 03:15 pm (UTC)this is great with lovely intelligent humour characteristic of Mylodon as ever
And before he’d discovered that he couldn’t even cross the Solent on the Isle of Wight ferry without losing his dinner at Spithead.
have recently learne from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue that a sailor who was seasick even in port was known as an Admiral of the Narrow Seas - is couldn't be allowed anywhere beyond the channel....