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When Uncle James and Mrs Quinn appeared in the upper lounge at about 4 pm, they were smiling, “We managed to get all the work completed an hour early, so the team is relaxing until dinner time,” Uncle James said to us, just as Captain Angela entered holding a piece of paper which she handed to Uncle James, who looked at the paper and groaned. Picking up the in house phone he pressed a button, “Now here this attention all hands, we a have a medical emergency, with a guest from the nearby Tiwi
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After a few goes of attempting to play some classical music, I gave up, and we just relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. As we all sat down to dinner, with Tim, Uncle James and us two boys at one end and the Medical team at the other, I noticed that Uncle James was watching them carefully, and I made a mental note to ask him about it later. The crew I presumed had already eaten or are eating in the crew mess on the lower deck, as there was no sign of them when we entered the dining room, w
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“This yacht is our work and home base, it was inherited by my husband, and at first we were not sure what to do with it, and my plans to spend 12 months working in Nhulunbuy changed due to housing issues, so we came up with this idea of providing a free medical service to the remote communities, and our first trial area is the four communities on the Tiwi Islands, Uncle James said. “Wonderful, I have always wanted to visit there, and now I get the chance of doing that for free,” Charmaine sa
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“What changes are you making to the yacht?” Toby asked, “We are converting the main salon’s formal dining area into two treatment rooms, with a central passageway, you will understand it better when we go down to the yacht tomorrow,” Uncle James replied. The following morning after breakfast, while Tim went to work as usual, Uncle James and us boys headed back to the marina, where the crew are expecting our arrival. When we stepped onto the yacht and walked up to the main deck, we were shock
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“Mr Hope and Dr Shaw in the owner’s suite and the boys will be in the two twin guest cabins, on the owner’s deck,” Angela said to the deckhands, “Yes Captain,” one of the lads said, as they headed inside with the luggage. “We also have some extra supplies for this evening’s celebrations, and…” Tim stopped talking when he saw a group of adults in their aged in their thirty’s and dressed to party,approaching the yacht. “Can I help you?” Angela called out to the group, “We are wondering if you
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“I have no time for stuff like that especially with work and looking after the boys,” Uncle James stated, “I have checked, straight after Boxing Day, there is a course happening in Darwin, just ask for a few days off, so you can do the course, and I will help you with a lot of it, like the coastal navigations, with reading coastal charts… actually I know a mate who will be able to help us out, he has a thirty metre fishing vessel that will be perfect for your training, and we can do a lot of the
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Once in the taxi, Tim asked the driver to take us to a real estate agency, which surprised us a little. “I think it would be safer if we search for a better place ourselves,” Tim explained, and I just nodded my head in understanding. At the Real Estate agency, Tim spent a few minutes looking at what options there are for rentals then purchases, and when he saw something he liked, he came to us for our views, “What do you think of this? I know it is fairly small and compact, but it is close t
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In Australia it is a herd of Sharks, but a shiver, frenzy or school of sharks are also correct, just depends on what they are known as, in your region...
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Yes in some parts of outback Australia, mostly Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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Correct on all suggested answers
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Thanks guys for your awesome comments.
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“What is it that you do for work?” Toby asked, “I am a marine engineer, and I lecture part time at the university, plus I am studying part - time to be a paramedic,” Timothy replied. “What is it you specialise in again?” Toby asked Uncle James. “Well I have a Masters in Medical and Surgery, which is known by the initials MBBS, plus I have a Fellowship degree in Rural Medicine, specialising in Environmental and Tropical Diseases, which has the initials of FRACRRM,” Uncle James replied, “How l
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From the moment that I was discharged from hospital, I wanted to become a doctor, even after all the trauma that I had gone through in the past nine weeks, I still wanted to be one. I was in the hospital due to me being a passenger in my parent’s car, when we were hit from behind at traffic lights and pushed into traffic from the other directions, resulting in the instant death of my mother, and eventual death of my father. Toby, my younger brother was still in a coma, and at the time of my
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Reid and his younger brother Toby, were in a serious car accident that killed their parents, and now they are on their way to the Tropical North of Australia, to live with their Uncle James, who is a doctor, and his partner Tim, who is a Marine Engineer. Many adventures lay ahead for the two boys, as they settle into a totally new environment, with many new places to explore.
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As is the case with all previous travellers, no passengers are permitted to carry any electronic devices that can record sound or footage, onto the Space Cruiser Galileo, and as is the case with past journeys, each passenger receives a detailed list of items that are banned from being brought on board, and there has already been a number of cases where items have been found, during the screening process in the Spaceport Terminal, where there are lockers available to lock away these items, until
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Thanks mate, yes I am aware of the errors, I just need some spare time to edit it properly. not enough hours in a day atm.
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“He was an inventor, wasn’t he?” one of the female reporters responded, “Yes, but more specifically he was an engineer and a physicist, and in January 1610, he was the first to see the 4 stars that orbited Jupiter, that he named & one is Sahndrol’s home planet of Ganymede in this Solar system,” I announced, as we entered the elevator, and scanned my security card, and pressed the button for level 3, where we stepped out into the Serenity Gardens Promenade. “Wow!” one of the reporters s
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And v close to the Isle of Wight from a earlier story.
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“Who set up the website, My Lord?” Isaac asked, “Good question young Isaac, it was actually Lord Lucas Durham who organised that, and it has the promotions video, that you just saw, plus a lot of photos, a list of all the entertainment venues, sport and recreation facilities, deck layout plans of all the public access areas, plus layouts of the four levels of accommodation, and the costs for each cabin. Now you know Nathalia dear, why the space port terminal is being built, next door to the Berm
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A short time later, we all boarded the helicopter, for the very short flight across the harbour, and we landed on the parking apron to the side of the former airfield, and moments later the URP shuttle landed on the landing bay. “By the way, we are having some work commencing shortly, to make this a proper Spaceport terminal, for all URP space craft to land on. Building material has already been sent to New Zealand, and the construction of the building modules, that will create the two-level ter
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“You can come out now, we are inside cargo bay of the shuttle,” my father announced from the door of the cabin, and we followed my father upstairs, and towards the back of the yacht, where we stepped off the yacht, where the senior officer of the shuttle greeted us. “Right boys, we need to get the prince to a safe location, which means, returning to the Navy base at the Sahndrol Islands. We need to contact your parents and get them to collect you from somewhere,” Dad said to my friends, “T
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“Have you had a good morning, little brother?” I asked Sam, “Yes, and stop calling me little, I am almost as tall as you,” Sam replied, with a frown on his face, and Isaac laughed. “Sam is just telling Mason off, for calling him little brother, when they are almost the same height,” Isaac explained, and the others joined in with the laughter. “This is going to take some getting used too, with you three speaking telepathically,” Anthony stated, “ Let’s try something… Anthony, Oscar and Mica
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“Mother, I just realised something, all of my former school mates at Winchester College, will know who I really am, which means, I cannot go back there, as it will be to unsafe,” I said, as we travelled by boat back home, “That is true, and what about your former school here on the island, although, I think we have a better chance of looking after you here at home,” my mother replied, and I just groaned when I realised this. For the next nine weeks, Isaac and I continued to be tutored, unt
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Serine is a Royal title
