Day 24 - Whitby to Hartlepool.
Arrived at Hartlepool in thick fog. Thank goodness for GPS.
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| Staithes |
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| These cliffs are 200 metres high. That's impressive. |
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| HMS Trincomalee. In Hartlepool marina. |
A man walks into a doctor's surgery, with a cucumber up his nose, a carrot in his left ear and a banana in his right ear.
ReplyDelete“What’s the matter with me?” he asked.
“You’re not eating properly”, replied the doctor.
A seaman meets a pirate in a bar. The pirate has a peg-leg, a hook and an eye patch. “How’d you end up with a peg-leg?” asks the sailor."I was swept overboard in a storm,” says the pirate. “A shark bit off me whole leg.” “Good heavens!” said the seaman. “What about the hook?” “We were boarding an enemy ship, fighting the other sailors with swords. One of them cut me hand clean off.” “Incredible!” remarked the seaman. “And the eyepatch?” “A seagull dropping fell in me eye,” replied the pirate. “You lost your eye to a seagull dropping? " the sailor asked incredulously. “Well,” said the pirate, “It was me first day with me hook.”
Aha! I had to think about the hook and eye, but I finally got it. Hurray. Good one, Maggi!
ReplyDeleteHartlepool? Are you in Geordie land, Brendan? (not sure of my geography) At primary school I used to have a best friend, Maria Moriarty, whose family hailed from Newcastle. She spoke "normal" English with me, but once I went to her home and I was amazed to be suddenly immersed in another language that the family and Maria spoke to one another ... ie. Geordie. (Maria was oblivious to the fact that she switched automatically.)
Beautiful ship - with a very fine Sri Lankan name too ! (Steve)
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