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The second half of the journey down the Suez Canal was very uneventful, and as the Pilot Captain was about to board the pilot boat that had come to collect her, I handed her a small envelope containing some cash. “This is for you, to choose how you want to spend it. Thank you for making our second half of the journey an uneventful and safe transit,” I said to her. When she opened her mouth to say some thing, Captain Anton put his hand up, “Accept this gift Captain, in hope that your collea
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FYI It is mustering, not Mushing, lol…
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“Yes Aunty, in the kitchen,” I replied, as I flicked the switch for the kettle to boil again, before grabbing my cup of tea, which I had made a few minutes earlier. “Oh look we have breakfast all prepared for us, how wonderful,” Jillian said on seeing the dining table all set out. After sitting down, I waited for Aunty Jos to finish making two cups of tea before joining us at the table, “So what are the plans for today?” I asked. “Unfortunately I have work to go to shortly, luckily my pract
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News reports always refer to Arab Nations, so I was presuming that my use of it would be acceptable, or would you prefer me to use "Countries that are Muslims?" Which I think is far worse...
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“That’s perfect timing, as our canal booking is set for the following day, according to the Captain, we will be leaving Port Said at 1000 hours, after spending the night at the Port Said Yacht Club,” I replied. “Very good, good night, sir,” Wyatt said before closing my door. The next morning, at breakfast, the Captain informed me that he had been told about the passengers arrival tomorrow, and he let me know that he had been in contact with the transit agency, and we have been put on a 24-h
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Hey Anton, yeah the story is about the volcanoes on west side of Canada. there is a total of ten chapters for this story. Double jabbed, getting booster after Christmas.
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When I spoke to my sister this morning our time, she announced that she is taking her well-earned holidays, to spend some quality time with her oldest nephew,” Mum said to me. “Wow; that is a long time, I look forward to exploring as much as I can and spending time with my favourite aunty. Um, I have one question to ask, would you mind if I look at the possibilities of transferring my University studies to Australia?” I replied, and Mum looked at Dad and they both smiled. “We think t
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Sorry Ian, suggest you sit near the kettle to make a new cuppa
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We ended up spending over a day extra in Athens, due to bad weather, which the guests did not mind at all, as they were having such a wonderful time. When we arrived in Alexandria, the guests were sad to be leaving and thanked the crew for a totally wonderful holiday, and the Captain decided to have all the restocking done at Alexandria, before going anywhere near the canal. With the assistance of Wyatt, we were able to learn that the Atkins family had indeed travelled overseas to New Zeala
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Trouble In my stories? Never.... Well maybe sometimes.
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“That is the end of the tour gentlemen,” I announced as we arrived in the main lobby of the main deck, where Lang appeared from the lower deck dressed in his new work uniform. “You are working on the yacht?” one of his friends asked sounding shocked. “Yes, Mr… I am sorry sir, I don’t recall your last name,” Lang said as he turned to me, “That is because, I thought you may have guessed it during our earlier conversations, it is Devonport, Alexander Devonport,” I replied, “Wait, I remem
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“Mi scusi, parla inglese?” a voice asked in very poor Italian, obviously this bloke was using what he learnt in high school, and had not bothered to learn more before travelling to Europe, and I almost groaned out loud, but instead I put on a smile and looked up. I observed that he must be only nineteen or twenty, and by the looks of the Akubra hat that he was wearing, he must be from Australia. “Si amico, ti capiro perfettamente in inglese!” I said before changing to English and repeating
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The continuing story of Alexander Huon Devonport
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Yes, it is all explained in my most recent comments on my profile.
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Although I was born, and spent my first three years in Western Australia, before our family moved to near Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, when our Dad was promoted, to regional manager for a mining company. Four years later, before my younger brother, Kit was born; Mum and I travelled to Perth for the last three months of her pregnancy, staying at her sister’s place while there. Both my brother Kit and I both have joint citizenship with Australia and Canada, while Mum and Dad only have perm
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Although born in Australia, Carson has lived and been educated in Eastern Canada for most of his life, with the family making a trip back to Australia before his younger brother - Kit was born. Now having completed his high school education, Carson was in his third year of University studies, in Environmental Studies, specialising in Geophysics and Volcanology. We follow Carson through his first few years of adulthood, which includes been caught up in a Volcano eruption in the Yukon Territory, just a few months after returning from a holiday to Australia, staying with his Aunty Jos in Alice Springs.
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Thankyou too all who have read and commented on my latest story. A brand new story to coming soon. Q
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The following day, I made sure that I had completed all of my chores, and that the house was ready for Myles to arrive, which included a quick trip into town to do some added shopping, and to collect the two bikes from the mechanics. I had also bought a new front door lock set to replace the current one, since I was expecting June would soon be arrested for her involvement with the breaking into my property, as well as the attempting to break into my computer in the study. On the way back h
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Once I was back on the west fence of the triangular paddock, I went through the northern gate and along the line of trees on the north side of the home paddock, and I started to plough bigger fire breaks around the trees that are close to the house and main shed, as well as towards the milking shed and my fruit trees and vegetable patch, and that is when I came across a dead milking cow, and after some looking around, I found a dead calf and two goats. The cause of their death was fairly cl
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Once Loretta had made the call to Ambulance headquarters in Perth, requesting the rescue chopper, and received confirmation, that it was on its way, with an eta of about 40 minutes, I followed Loretta and the gurney back into the cottage. I decided that I would not be of much use, so I jumped into my vehicle and raced back to the main shed, where I looked for and found some bright orange spray paint, that I recalled seeing before, and with that in hand, I headed to the paddock gate down the road
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Great story. Well done mate. Q
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I had a few ideas about the farm that I wanted to discuss with Malcolm, so I headed into town with Jack coming with me, and he even followed me out of the vehicle once I had parked, and I decided to let him come with me into Malcolm’s office. “Hello Mitch, and you brought Jack with you too, my how he has grown in such a short time,” Malcolm said when he saw us enter the outer office, and indicated for us to follow him. I want to be able to diversify a bit so as to be able to cope with any d
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“I have no idea where that is, so how close is it to my farm?” I asked, “That we do not know at the moment, we just have to wait till they get some aircraft in the air to assess it, and wait for a report,” Malcolm replied. “Well once I have done the milking and feeding, I am going to jump into my tractor and with the harrows that I found, I am going to grade all of my northern boundary fences,” I commented. “That is a very good idea. How about you leave the milking to me, and you can
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