Top of de marn’n to ye.

Areh wouldjabe look’n at dis den? I wee bit od de trut for a change.

Having lived and worked in Dublin for 11 months back in the early 1980’s I have always considered this Irish ness con job put on by NL politicians as a load of bollocks.
There are some similarities with today’s St. John’s and Dublin of the 1980’s, many of those similarities is something that maybe people should not crow about.

The folk/arts scene may have similarities; but then there are similarities between Australia folk/art and Irish folk/art, same in England. There are no similarities with the Pub scene; you would have to experience both to fully understand.

My blood lines run deep with Irish ness with a wee bit of the Welsh and the Scottish. Some of my ancestors were on the first fleet bound for Botany Bay.
I hold some pride in all those facts, but It’s no big deal fer christ sake, cept if you have an agenda in the political or artsy fartsy world.

As I always said to me mates on departing the pub, 'Sláinte go saol agat,Bean ar do mhian agat.Leanbh gach blian agat,is solas na bhflaitheas tareis antsail seo agat.'
And that folks is a load of bollocks.

A chartered twin otter came up yesterday to do a fly over inspection of the sunken barge up to the mouth of Hebron Fjord, be interesting to see the update on it's condition etc.

Our temperatures are consistent, -12 ish for the lows, -7 ish for the highs, we missed the crappy weather that hit south of here.
Thing is most people are hoping for some snow, the getting around conditions, particularly off the road , are very slippery, rough and hazardous.
But then we still have at least three more freight boat runs to come, conundrums conundrums.

It’s KAOS time.

The mv Aston should be to the dock by 11.30 or so, an hour later than scheduled. But hey, it’s here.
Now the fun starts. Wait for the crew to have lunch, wait for the right tide so reefers can come off without scrapping the arse out of em, wait while the movers and fork lifts slip n slide all over the place, n that's only alf of it. I wouldna given a tinkers arse but I have to go get stuff, I know some it on board, have to yet discover if the bulk of stuff is also.

More boring shipping updates.

Went down to the dock at 1.30 [hmm, could there be a song or a movie in the making?], kind of slow as things just getting in gear from a meal break. Had to hang a bit till people started converging again.
Notice about 5 reefers loaded with wood from Postville, lots of ice hanging off everything so the story about storm bound seems confirmed [ya just never know]. The crew were removing ice from the deck so they can get at the stuff below.
As to my stuff, it’s all there, some where on board, but the fact that I know its there is a load off, plus it might keep a certain gentleman in GB off my back for awhile, at least until it’s off.

The only action of interest while I was there is; a couple kids had snuck on board and stolen a crew members CD player. No security or what? Or is there more to it? Tune in after the commercial.