(01-01-2022, 04:20 PM)thomil Wrote: [ -> ]I actually just checked out the German Navy's website and apparently, she's in Santa Cruz awaiting her first load of cadets following being recommissioned after her refit. The class is supposed to board on January 3rd and the ship is slated to leave on her training cruise in Mid-January after an initial work-up period for those new cadets. She's expected back in Germany in late March.
'late March' ...clearly whoever runs the ship undterstands lifes priorities well
Does this mean that the poor shmuck who stands guard on the gang plank isnt a cadet ?
I wonder what he got up to that annoyed his boss so much ?
Perhaps its the cook because he ran out of stroopenwafel ?
Found myself down at the port again today....and what has rocked up but another German sail ship (only this time it looks like a privateer )
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very nice....................bbbbuuuuttt...........it looked to be awash with (teens/twenties?) 'finding themselves' ( drinking pils and discovering the guitar was not their strong poiint )
A couple of rather exhausted middle agers were hard at work, dumping rubbish, getting supplies that sort of thing. Struck me that the young ones would 'find themselves' PDQ if they were allocated a few tasks.
Anyway, its all good news for the Lidl branch a few hundred meters away when it opens ( most shops dont open Sundays
dawg approves but think Lidl ( like Carrefour ) do.
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thomil , Any indication if the German navy are prepared to tolerate visitors ? If so a list of questions would be welcome
Third sleep of the day done. That will set me up nicely for a whole night of story watching
(01-01-2022, 08:51 PM)dawg Wrote: [ -> ] (01-01-2022, 04:20 PM)thomil Wrote: [ -> ]I actually just checked out the German Navy's website and apparently, she's in Santa Cruz awaiting her first load of cadets following being recommissioned after her refit. The class is supposed to board on January 3rd and the ship is slated to leave on her training cruise in Mid-January after an initial work-up period for those new cadets. She's expected back in Germany in late March.
'late March' ...clearly whoever runs the ship undterstands lifes priorities well
Does this mean that the poor shmuck who stands guard on the gang plank isnt a cadet ?
I wonder what he got up to that annoyed his boss so much ?
Perhaps its the cook because he ran out of stroopenwafel ?
Found myself down at the port again today....and what has rocked up but another German sail ship (only this time it looks like a privateer )
very nice....................bbbbuuuuttt...........it looked to be awash with (teens/twenties?) 'finding themselves' ( drinking pils and discovering the guitar was not their strong poiint )
A couple of rather exhausted middle agers were hard at work, dumping rubbish, getting supplies that sort of thing. Struck me that the young ones would 'find themselves' PDQ if they were allocated a few tasks.
Anyway, its all good news for the Lidl branch a few hundred meters away when it opens ( most shops dont open Sundays dawg approves but think Lidl ( like Carrefour ) do.
@thomil , Any indication if the German navy are prepared to tolerate visitors ? If so a list of questions would be welcome
Well, the March part is more practicality and safety. You do NOT want to be out in the North Sea on a sailing ship with a large number of raw cadets in the middle of winter. That whole area can be vicious enough in March, but at least by that time, those cadets will know their stuff to a certain degree. The poor bloke standing watch at the gangway is definitely a part of the core crew of the ship. He'll have an easy enough life once the trainees are onboard and can be put to work doing all the unpleasant stuff. I mean, that's what they're there for, right?
Regarding the other vessel, she's indeed a private sail training vessel, for starters, she isn't flying the German Naval Ensign on her stern like Gorch Fock is. She's run by a charity that provides sea training for high-school & college age civilians, so your impression there is straight on
Interestingly, she was originally built for the East German Navy, as a tanker of all things, and was only converted to a sail training vessel after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
With regards to visiting or touring Gorch Fock, the German Navy do regularly open her up for visitors, as that's actually part of her mission, to act as an ambassador for Germany and the navy. They were more than welcoming back in March 2014, when she visited Cobh. However, given that they're expecting a new class of cadets, I doubt they'll be in a position to do so within the next few days, not when there are 110 green trainees onboard that need to be accommodated and brought up to speed. It might be worth having a chat with whoever is on guard duty to see what their plans are.
Apologies for turning this into a naval discussion #sorrynotsorry
Back in the emerald isle.
Managed to escape from the snow storm
Is tomorrow a bank holiday?
(02-01-2022, 07:13 PM)jp liz v1 Wrote: [ -> ]Is tomorrow a bank holiday?
Yup
Hope you feel better soon, Diamonds *hugs*
Do you have anything spicy you can get at short notice, preferably something with truck loads of ginger? I personally always go for either a high-yield chilli or a weapons grade curry when my sinuses are clogged up. Tends to work rather well.
Tableside here after a bit of goofing around with the VR headset that my employer sent out before Christmas. I'm beginning to really like it, although I have no clue how our company plans to integrate that into our internal systems for presentations...
Thanks thomil and Liz. Good eggs
I'll be just fine. I'm a very lucky woman who is now and them prone to a slide in to negativity. I've little to be complaining about.
I hope both of you are ok too @
jp liz v1 and @
thomil
I hope all of you foggies are x
Homeside, just back from a nice afternoon checking out Marina Park and Páirc Úi Chaoimh by bike. Can't believe it's taken me almost ten years of living here to head out that way...
Oh, and my feet are NOT happy about this
Have been planning out my latest (and last) design assignment, so it'll be an hour of sticking in images to relevant sections today and making a proper assessment of what needs doing over the next 2 weeks.
So it's tv, dinner and pritt stick for the evening.
My niece told my mam that garlic up the nose is helpful as she saw it on tiktok if you want to try @
Diamonds of Frost
Anyone else tried wordle?
I reckon people here will like it
Guess a five letter word, after each guess it tells you if letters are in the right place, the wrong place or just not included. Like Mastermind the peg game, if you remember that
One word a day at
https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
(04-01-2022, 12:55 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone else tried wordle?
I reckon people here will like it
Guess a five letter word, after each guess it tells you if letters are in the right place, the wrong place or just not included. Like Mastermind the peg game, if you remember that
One word a day at https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Toto told me about it yesterday, but I hadn't tried it. Just played it there now, got the word but it took me all 6 goes.
So like that Lingo game on daytime ITV? With Adil Ray?
I tried wordle twice and the two words were REBUS and TRUSS. They're already onto words nobody knows
here's today's anyway
Wordle 199 5/6
⬛?⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛?
⬛⬛???
??⬛??
?????
(04-01-2022, 01:31 AM)Zaph Wrote: [ -> ]Toto told me about it yesterday, but I hadn't tried it. Just played it there now, got the word but it took me all 6 goes.
I got it in three, but that was a massive slice of luck with my start word. I presume there's an optimum initial guess
(04-01-2022, 03:21 AM)nothing Wrote: [ -> ]So like that Lingo game on daytime ITV? With Adil Ray?
I'll have to take your word for it, never heard of the show
(04-01-2022, 08:55 AM)ShaneU Wrote: [ -> ]I tried wordle twice and the two words were REBUS and TRUSS. They're already onto words nobody knows
You mean you never watched Rebus?
![[Image: 250px-RebusKenStott.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/RebusKenStott.jpg/250px-RebusKenStott.jpg)
(04-01-2022, 08:55 AM)ShaneU Wrote: [ -> ]here's today's anyway
Wordle 199 5/6
⬛?⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛?
⬛⬛???
??⬛??
?????
Dafuq is that? FoG is not wordle friendly
(04-01-2022, 03:21 AM)nothing Wrote: [ -> ]So like that Lingo game on daytime ITV? With Adil Ray?
I caught a glimpse of that the other day, yeah its pretty much exactly that
I missed out on the 4th letter on the last line myself.. I was 50/50 between the word I chose and the correct one and went for the wrong one
Deskside, back at work. Had an (expected) reshuffle of responsibilities within the team this morning. Say what you want, we Germans have experience when it comes to withdrawing from Russia
Not a fan of word puzzle games here, if I‘m honest. Maybe that‘s because I spend most of my working day trying to decipher the emails of certain colleagues of mine to find out what they actually want…
Got up at a reasonable time, somehow. Wifi has briefly cut out 3 times this morning and I'm half asleep. Think I'll just go for a nap and see if I'm up for college bits later. We're not due back in until Thursday, depending how all this schools stuff goes.
(04-01-2022, 01:06 PM)thomil Wrote: [ -> ]Deskside, back at work. Had an (expected) reshuffle of responsibilities within the team this morning. Say what you want, we Germans have experience when it comes to withdrawing from Russia
Not a fan of word puzzle games here, if I‘m honest. Maybe that‘s because I spend most of my working day trying to decipher the emails of certain colleagues of mine to find out what they actually want…
Oh I know the feeling.....
@
Necro I had a laugh at this one and thought of you
Was just out to get a few bobs from Tesco. I'm beginning to understand why the Romans called this place the land of winter (Hibernia) - Was half expecting to come across some White Walkers...
(04-01-2022, 10:04 PM)thomil Wrote: [ -> ]Was just out to get a few bobs from Tesco. I'm beginning to understand why the Romans called this place the land of winter (Hibernia) - Was half expecting to come across some White Walkers...
Because it's very cold out?? Confused.
Yep, exactly. I wanted to write polar bears but somehow, emaciated frost zombies seemed to fit the area where I live better
I'm free of the pox!!
*Tomorrow I shall emerse myself in crowds and talk with many strangers
But first. To celebrate. Beer or prosecco?
*Food shop
Strictly for SephersShow Content
(05-01-2022, 11:38 PM)Diamonds of Frost Wrote: [ -> ]I'm free of the pox!!
*Tomorrow I shall emerse myself in crowds and talk with many strangers
But first. To celebrate. Beer or prosecco?
*Food shop
Beer or prosecco - yes
Almost missed my first class this morning after a late night. Completely wrecked now after 3 hours of research and notes on typographical design. More to do later to stay on schedule. Uber moody.
Nollaig na mBan Shona Daoibh
I think all us mnà should be treated to presents and other nice things today
(06-01-2022, 04:40 PM)Diamonds of Frost Wrote: [ -> ]I think all us mnà should be treated to presents and other nice things today
Don't we let you make us sandwiches? What more do you want?
(06-01-2022, 04:40 PM)Diamonds of Frost Wrote: [ -> ]I think all us mnà should be treated to presents and other nice things today
what ta feck isthat thingy on your a?
Mná not wharever that is
(06-01-2022, 07:03 PM)Tigger Wrote: [ -> ] (06-01-2022, 04:40 PM)Diamonds of Frost Wrote: [ -> ]I think all us mnà should be treated to presents and other nice things today
what ta feck isthat thingy on your a?
Mná not wharever that is
Oh!!
FOGGIES UNITE!!
I bought new curtains. They are rather creased. Neo thinks that the creases will fall out when we hang them. I think I'm going to have to iron them. The thoughts of ironing them though...Jaysus. Would you be bothered? Who here irons their curtains? These are the thoughts that plague me.