LittleSister
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Or perhaps a 'jot' of authors?
Oh to be in England
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Or perhaps a 'jot' of authors?
tillergirl
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That bit of wind ruin the plan yesterday. I went out to the Spitway to re-survey there with chum Brian and we found fog (less than half a mile of vis) and an 'orrid swell in from the east presumably left over for Sunday's day and night wind overlaced with enough more easterly to agitate over the sands. Nothing to worry about sailing or motoring A to B, but collecting accurate readings? No. Pretty much didn't see anything most of the day.
Tomahawk
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Going back to the OP..
I wonder who has the worst of it..
Johnalson seeing that looming out the mist
Or the pilot on the bridge totally blind in the mist at that height?
I wonder who has the worst of it..
Johnalson seeing that looming out the mist
Or the pilot on the bridge totally blind in the mist at that height?
johnalison
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Actually, the ship had left the docks and was on its way out to sea, with the tug astern. We were well out of the way near the breakwater at the time. I had AIS on too, though forgot to switch it off later, not that there is much risk of a ship colliding with her in the marina.
An interesting feature of the short trip was noticing how disorientated my daughter and granddaughter were most of the time, though my daughter has sailed with us since childhood. There was little to see apart from about one buoy at a time and a slight shadow of land until we got into Harwich and then not much more. In trying to teach the teenager how to steer something like a straight course it made me think about how I do it myself. Although she had the compass in sight, plus COG on the instruments, variations of up to 30 degrees or more were quite common at times. I realised that those of us who are experienced are aware of all the sources of information and pay attention to the direction of the wind on the water and on our neck as well as the compass and other guides, giving a sort of average that we steer to.
Major_Clanger
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There once was a girl from Colehill
who sat down for a rest on a molehill.
Up came the mole,
went straight-up the hole.
Now the girl's alright but the mole's ill.
I was going to take Vim from Aldeburgh to Maldon today but we've got a fair bit on NE wind here currently and I thought the Ore entrance might be a bit lively to sail out of (she's wonderful under sail but dreadful under power).
johnalison
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Perhaps your objection is to the rhymes being female.
DavidonMersea
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I should be home in Mersea now, but my flight got cancelled. I have another flight booked for 12th July
Jan Harber
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I presume that Vim is not the vintage US 12-Metre?
Caraway
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I didn't know words had gender in English. You learn something every day ?
johnalison
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Not words but rhymes. Not something I knew until a few years ago.
Masculine Rhymes vs. Feminine Rhymes by VicariouSoul on DeviantArt
Caraway
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I take them to be masculine as the rhyme is actually at the end of the word "apture" and "apture" Feminine ones would obey the rule 'in which the final syllables are unstressed'. But you may be right.
But really my objection was to the rhyme being the self same word "apture". It sounds forced.
johnalison
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I agree that it sounds inelegant, as if the poet were trying to avoid being too obvious. Great poetry happens when the structure, rhyme and stresses combine to express something remarkable, but I think it is easier said than done.
pvb
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I'm sure it is! I developed something of a blank spot for poetry as a result of learning Latin at school. All those strange terms like dactylic hexameter and limping iambics seemed to make little sense (and still don't).
johnalison
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I quite enjoyed Virgil but he gave up on me when I was 15. Stephen Fry is not my favourite person but I was given this book and was pleasantly surprised. It is very informative and occasionally illustrated with some rude verse.
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within eBook : Fry, Stephen: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Aquaboy
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I came here for the sailing and ended up with an English lesson.......
johnalison
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I blame the weather.
Major_Clanger
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Wouldn't that be lovely? She's a Co26 and the definition suits her I think, but the famous 12 did play a small part in my choice of name.
Tomahawk
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Strong rhymes and weak rhymes is Ok ... But assigning gender and more significant saying strong rnyms are masculine is an offence against wokery.
Although one famail speech habit that really gets my goat is "upping"..... raising the tone of the last word of a statement to turn it into a question.
johnalison
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That is only females who watch Neighbours.
AntarcticPilot
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Many years ago - 1988 - I was in hospital having major surgery on my knee. In those days, there was one TV on the ward, and the nurses controlled it. All the nurses were Neighbours fans. In those days, Neighbours was broadcast twice a day; the same episode was put out in the afternoon and then again in the evening. Sadly, the nurses changed shift between the two! So, we poor inmates ended up seeing the same episode twice. I reckon it hastened our departure no end; if it was a jail it would count as cruel and unusual punishment! Thankfully, I passed several days in a haze of painkillers, and only became aware of it when I was getting a bit more compos-mentis.